Solid Core or Stranded

[Gary]

Hi

Looking for some advice. I'm wiring inside a house about 100 feet;
inside walls and around baseboards.

Which is better to use solid core or stranded utp?
Which has higher resistance?

Gary

 

[Ron Lowe]

Hi

Looking for some advice. I'm wiring inside a house about 100 feet; inside
walls and around baseboards.

Which is better to use solid core or stranded utp?
Which has higher resistance?

Gary

You'd normally use solid core for fixed wiring.

Stranded core does not punch down into the knife-blade
IDC connectors at the back of the wall outlets as well as solid core.

Stranded is more flexible, and is prefered for patch leads.

 

[Al Dykes]

You'd normally use solid core for fixed wiring.

Stranded core does not punch down into the knife-blade
IDC connectors at the back of the wall outlets as well as solid core.

Stranded is more flexible, and is prefered for patch leads.

This thread is more approptiate to comp.dcom.cabling


As Ron said, jacks are always for solid cable and if you punch
stranded into them you will develop intermittant connections over
time.

If you are thinking of crimping plugs on your wire then you should
reconsider and plan to use jacks and patch cables.

What's resistance got to do with it ? If you build to CAT5 spec you
will be good to 100MB and possibly 1000MB. If your build to CAT5e spec
you are good to 1000MB.

 

[Jetro]

Maximum length of solid UTP cable is 100 m (328 ft) (straight line) but
maximum length recommended for stranded cable is 10 m (33 ft). Patch cables
are mostly made from stranded cable. Any connector additionally attenuates
the signal.

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

Maximum length of solid UTP cable is 100 m (328 ft) (straight line) but
maximum length recommended for stranded cable is 10 m (33 ft). Patch cables
are mostly made from stranded cable. Any connector additionally attenuates
the signal.

I haven't used stranded cables longer than 25', but I don't see why
longer ones should be a problem. I see stranded cables up to about
75' in retail stores, and this web site has them up to 250' long:

http://www.provantage.com/pr_44622.htm

BTW, look at the prices on that page. They show what how outrageously
high cable prices are at some computer and office supply stores.
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[Jetro]

The TIA/EIA-568 standard states that horizontal cabling (from the back of
patch panel to the wall jack) should be no more than 90 m in length. This
allows for two 5 m patch cables to be connected and to remain within the 100
m segment specification.

Solid cable has less resistance and less signal attenuation comparing with a
stranded one. Neither CAT5 cable can deliver 100Mbps on 100 m diameter in a
real life indeed. Certainly stranded cable can be longer than 10 m but it's
hard to say how long and it's just not recommended.