controller cable

[Jim Mandaville]

Could someone give me a steer on what kind of cable to use for connecting the controller to my modem/router? Obviously ethernet, but should it be CAT5e network type?

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[RichoAnd]

Just Cat5 - without shield - often Cat5e is ok, but we have also seen noise problems because ground loops

[Jim Mandaville]

Thanks. Is there a generally recognized maximum length for this cable?

Jim

[RichoAnd]

100 feet       

[Steph]

The specifications for 10/100BaseT are 100m on a cat. 5 cable.

[RichoAnd]

100 feet       

Sorry... 300 feet ~ 100m

[Jim Mandaville]

100 feet       

Sorry... 300 feet ~ 100m

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Note that I was speaking of the distance from the controller to the computer cum modem, not the distance from the controller to the amplifier/antenna. Can the distance from the controller back to the modem really be 100 m?? if so, that would be useful to me.

Thanks, Jim

[RichoAnd]

I know, and yes 100m ~ 300ft is a norm and means between two peaces of hardware

[Gerard.Parat]

I have the controler outdoor with a 60m cat5 cable, powered with an homemade PoE.