Jim -

Shielded twisted pair is included within the EIA/TIA 568 standard
and is used in parts of Europe. It is more expensive to install and takes
more time to terminate (but less than the old IBM Type 1 cabling system !!)

Greg

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"Jim, N2VX" wrote in message
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On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 21:28:36 -0400, "DOUGLAS SNOWDEN"
wrote:

Just curious, have any of you had trouble with your neighbors that have
had
their homes wired with CAT5 cable? Does it want to act like an antenna
and
cause intereference (to them and you) ???

Doug N4IJ


Ours generates noise on HF. I have a vertical antenna about 15 feet
from the house and that doesn't help. We didn't have problems with
the old-style coax cable ethernet. I'll switch to shielded cat-5
cable in the near future.

73,
Jim
N2VX