We are just starting to install a number of towers where we are using Mimosa equipment and have run Cat6a for those where the cabinets won't be on top of the tower. For the ones that are on top of the tower we ordered pre-terminated cables. Just too much hassle for the cost. For those where we had to run cable to the top we ordered new quiktex ends since they use the regular old crimpers. We couldn't find any ends to work with our Ez rj45 crimper. We will be terminating those cables the next few days.
We do have Mimosa equipment installed with Cat5e cable and it works fine now. We initially had issues with the Ethernet ports dropping and replaced POEs and were considering recabling. However fixing the RF link interference issues and some firmware upgrades have really stabilized those Ethernet ports now. We haven't had an Ethernet port go down in 10 months since we did that work. (I am currently knocking on wood. 🙂) Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> ________________________________ From: Af <af-boun...@afmug.com> on behalf of Christopher Gray <cg...@graytechsoftware.com> Sent: Thursday, June 8, 2017 7:20:38 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Shielded Cat6 recommendation I bought some Shireen Cat6 to try. The OD of the insulation on the Shireen Cat6 (and other Cat6 cables I've found so far) make it unusable with the EZ-RJ45 plugs. So, I ended up purchasing new plugs, and should have purchased a new crimper. I later asked here about using Cat6 with Mimosa and got a fairly resounding "Cat5e is enough" at the time. In the end, it seemed like a giant pain for any spot other than having great interference. On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 10:24 AM, Jay Weekley <par...@cyberbroadband.net<mailto:par...@cyberbroadband.net>> wrote: We recently received a recommendation from Mimosa to replace our shielded Cat 5 with Cat6. We've been using Shireen lately and they have a Cat 6 product. What would you use? Has anyone had problems with using Cat 5 with Mimosa?
