We bought some ARC wireless Cat 6 connectors to go onto Shireen Cat 6
cable but they were a major pain to use. The wires had to be forced in
instead of sliding in with minimal effort. My idea now is to buy
Shireen Cat 6 connectors which hopefully will work better. Does anyone
know if these connectors require a special crimper or can we use what we
already have?
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Jay Weekley wrote:
Cat 5 should be sufficient but one radio shares a tower with 2 FM
stations so we're having to do everything we can to mitigate
interference. The other problem is a mystery since it's on a
decommission water tank with no other radios than ours.
David Coudron wrote:
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. 🙂)
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*From:* Af <af-boun...@afmug.com> on behalf of Christopher Gray
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*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?
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