Re: Using vs. Avoiding Steel Structures

FredZ wrote:
> Please be adviced that you should not under any circumstances lay your
> CAT5/6 cable in the same ducting as your mains.

Electrical codes forbid telecom and data cables to be run in the same
conduit as electrical power over 48 volts.

> The reason for this is
> called inductive pickup. The 50/60hz generated by the mains will be
> induced on the CAT5/6 cable and will detriate signal integrity severly.
> The longer the side by side run the greater the effect.

This has pretty much been dismissed as a non-issue. After exhaustive
testing this has "rule of thumb" has been shown to be without merit.