Gene Heskett wrote: >Everybody in the neighborhood now has a dsl modem with wifi in it and >apparently enabled, I can see anywhere from 2 to 4 with a pocket sniffer >here. Not trusting to have a wifi on my side of the firewall, I took the >chicken way out and ran a hunk of cat5 to the shop, hanging overhead >across the yard. Std, out of the un-real box indoor cable from Belden, >its been hanging there for 3 years now, good as ever the last time I used >adept to update that box. If the weather does kill it, well, cat5 is >cheap, at least for me. > > This is really dangerous! You must not have lightning like we do! I have had the ethernet port blown out on a computer INSIDE my house. There was about 50 feet of cable, mostly in the walls, between the hub and the computer. No way would this last long here in MO, with several hundred feet hanging overhead. Most likely, whatever was at both ends would be reduced to a smoldering hulk the first time a storm came over.
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