Is it a bad idea to run CAT-5 wire outside of house?

[mi1stormilst]

I personally ran a cat5 in regular white pvc 1 foot below ground to my neighbor...shared cable internet for a year with zero trouble. Well there was one problem I busted her main water line and had to pay a plumber to come out and fix it )-:

Funny looking back on it though (-:

 

[bluewall21]

I have a big ol' coax cable running outside my house, but it may be a bad thing.

 

[V00DOO]

I have been running Cat5 wires on the outside to my neihbors house for 2 years without any problem.

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Originally posted by: V00DOO
I have been running Cat5 wires on the outside to my neihbors house for 2 years without any problem.

OMG! Dude, I could pick up $100/month if I offered my neighbors shared 5.0 mbit DSL access for $20/month each. One house on either side, one behind, and two diagonal behind. I'll run it through PVC pipe. $1200 a year, baby!!!

 

[NotSoSimple]

Hmm whomever said that no one should ever run Cat-5 through conduit and said that anyone in networking knows this...

Well i work for the school district and since our schools have even had a network, we have been running conduit with Cat-5, Cat-6, Cat-3 and Fiber through them. So far (in about 9 years) we have had no issues with you. Are the 'Do's and Dont's' just theorys, or are we just lucky?

 

[Caminetto]

LOL, the worst "shock to the system" will be when the cable company discovers the hookup and you go back to dial-up.