3500' underground cat5?

[kentuckynet 0]

Hello, if you guys were doing a 3500' run underground for your own home would you use cat5? Its for one Camera!

There is already power at both ends of the run.

 

thanks

mack

[survtech 0]

3,500 feet is pushing it for CAT5/CAT6. For that distance, you should use active/active, not baluns. The alternative would be fiber, which is much more difficult (and expensive) to work with.

[kentuckynet 0]

Will cat5 work? with active active?

 

mack

[jeromephone 6]

check mfg specks also look at PI Mfg they have several different flavors of extenders and baluns

[jimsmith1979 0]

You can do it, but you need an active receiver/transceiver. It really doesn't matter what type of balun you use, as long as you have an active unit before your switch input.