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Who cared, we were 15 at the time. Besides you worry too much. Entire cities were wired with cat5 hanged off steel cable between 9 to 15 story buildings in ear
by lstodd 17d ago
Who cared, we were 15 at the time.
Besides you worry too much. Entire cities were wired with cat5 hanged off steel cable between 9 to 15 story buildings in early 2000s, before fiber. Nothing burned down.
- inigyou 17d agoIf your cable is shielded it's liable to spark and trip breakers. Happened to me when one building was horribly miswired (someone swapped live and ground somewhere) and fried part of my computer before the breaker tripped. In the worst case there isn't actually any breaker in the path (they are only on live wires and the worry here is ground loops) so your cable just melts. That didn't happen to me. Unshielded cable is theoretically isolated at both ends but who actually knows with some chinesium equipment?