If your gonna go to the effort of running cable run cat6.
Also if you run cat6 it's shielded and you wont have any problems with interference from other cables. be warned tho, running long cables (esp phone) will degrade performance, i'm not ontop of phone lines but you could have some issues running that far (maybe look at doing a pabx solution and voip over the utp - [
www.asterisk.org]).
I'm pretty sure 100meters is where you start to run into problems with utp cable (cat5/6) however if you buy good quality cable/switches (www.linksys.com) for both ends they usually have a nice high voltage that'll keep the link running really well (gig), if your only after a few meg then 120m should be fine. Also get multi-core cat6, your meant to use single core for long distances but for ease of use multi-core cable is a hell of alot more resistant to breaks than single core and u don't want to have to rerun the entire cable if you bend the cable too much (tho i believe it's more expensive.. so if your going to be careful then single core is fine if it's in a pvc pipe).
As for safety make sure you stick the pvc pipe in a 'deep' hole, around 1 meter should be fine, don't want a lightning strike to burn your house/shop down.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/08/2008 01:41AM by DarkKlown.