Cat5e and new builds. Crossing the streams

[Neon Vagabond]

ive taken on a big new build and im not too sure about the data cabling. (thought i could sub it out but cant find anyone yet)

The house has 3 floors with telephone points on each floor.
Due to the construction of the kit there are points where my cat5e and my power cables will cross streams (touching). apart from maybe 3/4 of these small section i have kept the routes seperate.

Does anyone know if this will cause me problems down the line?

its eco u/utp cat5e cable. Would i be right in asuming the "u/utp" stands for "unshielded"

 

[cliffed]

Yea unsheided,try & keep a good distance away from mains voltage cable.Cross at right angles should be ok,but obviously parrell to them is not good,without max 6”.

 

[Neon Vagabond]

Nah it does touch the power cables and it is parallel.

What about if I wrap foil around the cat 5 at these points?

 

[cliffed]

No that will make things worse

 

[Neon Vagabond]

Is there a type of data cable I can buy that would get me around this problem?
If there is, do you think I should re wire it? Or is it not worthy of such a drastic measure?

 

[davesparks]

.Cross at right angles should be ok,but obviously parrell to them is not good,without max 6”.

What’s so bad about running parallel to LV cabling?
A lot of cat5 cable is installed in close proximity and parallel to LV cabling in dado trunking without any shielding but nobody seems to have much of a problem with it.

 

[Neon Vagabond]

That’s a good point.

Maybe I’m just worrying too much due to the fact that I’ve never really done data points on this scale before.
I’m trying to avoid any future problems/ heartbreaks

 

[loulew]

Don’t cross the streams!

 

[Marvo]

It will probably only cause problems if they're hoping to run at gigabit speeds on CAT5e. At normal domestic internet speeds I doubt you'll see any issues, just try keep the close proximity parallel runs to a minimum.

 

[Gavin John Hyde]

I did a lot of panduit and cisco courses a few years back, the risk of signal loss and dropped packets from mains currents interfering with data transmission is quite low in a domestic setting. A lot of these ideas come from the 90s but was in large part due to the network adaptors rather than the cables, The tech has moved on quite a bit since.
In high end systems or where the speeds are important such as Labs, Big offices etc.. then you could use shielded twisted pair either as a whole cat 5e cable or down to pairs or individual strands. Although a lot of these high end systems have started to move other to fibre optic now. with standard methods only used between network socket and device.
You can in the fancy set ups use a drain wire that acts as a route to ground for induced currents on the foil shielding but there is no need in domestic setting for it.

 

[Neon Vagabond]

Thanks for all your input, you may have postponed the stress induced heart attack that I am surely due

 

[mydigitalhome]

Fluke IQ tester really good for testing purposes. Worth hiring or buying if you have a few jobs. Resolves all the problems.

 

[Squid]

Can you not use FTP cable and how many network points are you installing?

 

[Neon Vagabond]

About 8

 

[Squid]

Jeeeez not that many then use shielded cable it won't cost much more per 300 mtr box, are you terminating the ends?

 

[Neon Vagabond]

Yeah terminating ends

 

[LeeH]

No point using foil wrapped without the metal plugs and the appropriate grounded equipment

 

[telectrix]

Jeeeez not that many then use shielded cable it won't cost much more per 300 mtr box, are you terminating the ends?

nah, he's going to let 'em live.

 

[Squid]

nah, he's going to let 'em live.

 

[telectrix]

so's this: