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Off Topic => Engineering => Topic started by: NJAntman on April 06, 2006, 08:08:31 pm
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So, I'm about to merrily go down the road of building a home network from the ground up. But first a few questions..
My first decision. I've got Cat5E cable through the walls and into outlet boxes but I have to decide how to attach the connectors. Which is better: T568A vs T568B?
Next: Cross-over vs Straight? Seems like all the patch cables I see are straight, so why would anyone need to make a cross-over?
Finally: Seen it mentioned several times not to extend Newtwork cable outside of the house or it will become a lightning rod. I was thinking of having about a foot of network cable poke through a roof soffet to attch to a network camera hanging under the soffet. Bad idea?
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Next: Cross-over vs Straight? Seems like all the patch cables I see are straight, so why would anyone need to make a cross-over?
Crossover cables are to allow connecting network card to network card without a switch, hub or router in between. Essentially it is only used to allow two computers to temporarily network without a lot of extraneous hardware.
I'll leave the rest for those more knowledgeable.
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So, I'm about to merrily go down the road of building a home network from the ground up. But first a few questions..
My first decision. I've got Cat5E cable through the walls and into outlet boxes but I have to decide how to attach the connectors. Which is better: T568A vs T568B?
Next: Cross-over vs Straight? Seems like all the patch cables I see are straight, so why would anyone need to make a cross-over?
Finally: Seen it mentioned several times not to extend Newtwork cable outside of the house or it will become a lightning rod. I was thinking of having about a foot of network cable poke through a roof soffet to attch to a network camera hanging under the soffet. Bad idea?
Put your network cable in conduit if its going outside. Remember, standard CAT5 isn't rated for outside use.