Running CAT5e alongside electrical cables

Mr. Flibble

I'm wiring up my house with CAT5e. The easiest place to run the CAT5e is to run them along beside electrical cables (a lot of them, including big ass electric shower cable). Is this not going to work, will there be too much interference?

Also, CAT5e vs CAT6? Any difference between the two?

center15

I have 2 cat5e cables running right next to the main fuse box in the house it is next to all the main thick power cables and the shower power supply, no issues at all that I can see.

Pocky

What are you going to use the Cat5 for? PC (broadband) or phone? Should work.

If you want to future proof it take shielded cable such as MMC-150 or MMC-230. Better than Cat7 and they can be next to power cables. Look at www.IrishHomeNet.com

lucernarian

It's a bit late to post in the thread, but it's against the british regulations and presumably the irish guidelines to run low-voltage "signal cables" such as telephone, Cat5, TV etc. down the same ducting as mains cable.

Mr. Flibble

Not too late (I'm slow at getting things done). What's ducting, the physical space that all the cables are in or a container (pipe thingy) for a few cables?

Pocky

To_be_confirmed wrote:

It's a bit late to post in the thread, but it's against the british regulations and presumably the irish guidelines to run low-voltage "signal cables" such as telephone, Cat5, TV etc. down the same ducting as mains cable.

Have you ever seen an Irish installation