Long cable...

[Cafisho]

Hi, this is my first post over here and i´m needing some help :o I have a tower of 7 meters tall with a 24dbi antenna, i need to make a long run of cable until my PC (about 20 meters), if i use coaxial i will get a lot of attenuation right? I´ve been told that the best way for long cable is to put the router in a box (or something like that :P) near the antenna, and then use cat5e cable. Is this option good? If i use cat5e will i get some kind of signal loss? what type?. What you people think it´s the best way to achieve what i want?.

Thanks in advance :D

[golfnut]

Use Cat. 5 and keep it under 100 meters. No signal loss through a network cable.

Greg

[M/Q]

Greg is correct, I just wanted to inject that you would want to use an outdoor and weather-rated cable as the normal Cat5 will deteriorate quite rapidly due to UV radiation.

[Cafisho]

Wow, no signal loss? Great then. The normal CAT5 is the one for outdoor use? or there´s also a CAT5e for outdoor? Thanks a lot :D

[M/Q]

The ratings of the cable do not have anything to do with whether it is made for outdoors or not.

http://www.americantechsupply.com/outdoorratedcat5ecable.htm