CAT5 cable outdoors

Just wondering how durable the usual CAT5 cable is in an outdoor enviroment
?
I need network access in my garage so was thinking of just running some CAT5
under the house then to the garage - the gap between the house and garage is
about 2 metres.
Would the cat5 survive the elements or am I best to run in through a bit of
hosepipe or similar ?

 

Should be sweet. Had a cable running between myself and the guy nextdoor
for quite a few years and it was fine. Was a good 20 meters outside too,
over a fence and over a garage roof...

 

It'd probably be ok, but for what it costs, buy a roll of irrigation
pipe (black PVC stuff) or even bog standard garden hose and run it
through that.

We buried ~300M of it in black irrigation pipe at my uni hostel once
upon a time.

 

It'd probably be ok, but for what it costs, buy a roll of irrigation
pipe (black PVC stuff) or even bog standard garden hose and run it
through that.

We buried ~300M of it in black irrigation pipe at my uni hostel once
upon a time.

 

UV stability is a consideration - I have no idea what performance is
like. Protection from blazing sunlight is probably worthwhile.

 

I'd thread it through a bit of old hose pipe....

regards

thing

 

You can get polyethylene jacketed gel filled CAT5 if you want it to last more
than a few years.

 

Thanks all, will put it in some old hose pipe

 

Just use plastic electrical conduit..

 

We have found that this is nowhere near as important as keeping it away
from hedge trimmers and weedeaters.

 

LOL
Wont have that prob, will be about 1.5m off the ground

 

Just the right height to strangle the kids.

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Nah, Ill probably find my cat swinging from it doing acrobatics, the nosey
little shite

 

I take it there won't be any issue with ground loops?

 

No, cat5 is electrically isolated at each end.