Good afternoon all,
I have just recently been commisioned to install a medium sized Fast Ethernet network for an organisation. The building consists of three floors and I need to run two lengths of CAT5e cable to each Equipment Closet(EC) on each floor. The EC's are all immediately below/above each other so it is not a complex run at all.
Usually I would simply cut a path in the ceiling coving, and apply some PVC trunking to route it from the RJ45 keystone jack up through the ceiling but I have come to realise that the building has cavity walls. I would thus like to route it behind the plaster.
Now I understand that with cables carrying an electrical feed, you should route it through some conduit behind the plaster. Is this really necessary for a UTP cable which carries no more current than a speaker wire? I want to avoid chipping out any plaster at all, can it not simply be pushed down through the wall from a higher floor to a lower with the aid of a small weight or such attached to the end?
Thanks a lot in advance.
Sam
I have just recently been commisioned to install a medium sized Fast Ethernet network for an organisation. The building consists of three floors and I need to run two lengths of CAT5e cable to each Equipment Closet(EC) on each floor. The EC's are all immediately below/above each other so it is not a complex run at all.
Usually I would simply cut a path in the ceiling coving, and apply some PVC trunking to route it from the RJ45 keystone jack up through the ceiling but I have come to realise that the building has cavity walls. I would thus like to route it behind the plaster.
Now I understand that with cables carrying an electrical feed, you should route it through some conduit behind the plaster. Is this really necessary for a UTP cable which carries no more current than a speaker wire? I want to avoid chipping out any plaster at all, can it not simply be pushed down through the wall from a higher floor to a lower with the aid of a small weight or such attached to the end?
Thanks a lot in advance.
Sam