does network cable deteriate in cold/wet?

[fragmast3r]

Silly question time, i need a network connection in 4 rooms, dining room, lounge and 2 of my bedrooms, now the easyiest and tidyest way of doing this is going out through my dinning room wall and around the outside of the house and back into the 3 rooms (network already in dinning room) i can completely hide the cables on the outside of my home (well a lot easier than around my skirting boards and its wife friendly too ) but will the cable become useless in cold/snow/ice rain/sunshine etc?

regards
jason

[amidar]

Should be ok although i imagine it will go eventually. Why not get a wirless kit theyre not much these days.

[Nijo]

Or put some kind of protective layer (i.e. plastic tube) on the outsidey bits.

But yeah, wireless network tbh.

[Madbury]

Should be alright provided you get the right stuff. NTL run coax cables outside and these ave suitably shielded and protected.

Is your house a new build or does it have floorboards? If the latter then you're better off running the cables under the floor (fairly straight forward to lift a few floorboards) you can then bring them up through a channel in the wall and terminate at a nice looking access point.

Or go for wireless. I'm using wireless at the moment and it's very good, but I'd still like to put in some proper hard wired access points.

[in5ane]

Wireless is all well and good, but for things like gaming i would always prefer wired.

Outside network cable is fine.

I'm well lucky, last 2 apartments i've lived in have had full www.iphomenet.com installed

[gunrock]

Outside ethernet - lightning strikes!

I have heard that being twisted copper wiring means that it attracts lightning. Perhaps inside some plastic conduit you'd be ok, but I've heard of ground strikes hitting ethernet cable that was in conduit 12 inches in the ground!

Anyway, I went and got fiber-optics for my outside segment.

[fragmast3r]

ok, i was won on the idea of network cable outside, right up until gunrocks post!! having had my house hit by lightning once, im not going to encourage it happening again, so wireless it will be

cant go through ceilings and rip floorboards up as ive just spent a fortune on new carpets throughout.................... and besides uve not met the wife!!!!

cheers all
jason

[Ginger Tosser]

Personally i think the chances of it happening again are slim. Though if your worried you might want to source something like this http://www.polyphaser.com/News/NetGuardSpecSheet.pdf