15,000 foot elevation and dsl

[desktopsilver]

ok i was talkingwith someone on turkey day and they said that at the higher elevations the cat 5 cable would experiance signal/data degregation due to being unshielded and the suns radiation at that hight.........any merrit to this statement..

 

[ScottMac]

Well, it wouldn't matter, Category-rated cable is for indoor use only (Avaya is the only exception that I'm aware of, they do make an external-rated Cat5, but it's actually meant to be in conduit). There's no valid reason from running Cat-(anything) outside of a building: it's dangerous to living and electronic things.

UV (and some other atmospheric anomilies) is stronger at higher elevations. Chek out Space Weather Now.

If you click on some of the links for the various alerts, some are rated as being more critical at higher altitudes.

FWIW

Scott

 

[BuckNaked]

I can say I live at just a hair under 10,000 feet and don't have a problem.... I don't run it outside though...

Dave