UTP Cat5e Interference concern

[DeadSeaSquirrels]

I am thinking about wiring up my new house so that I had RJ45 ports through out the house, so no more wires strung across everywhere. I was going to have it so that one place would have an 8 jack (quadruple gang) plate, and I'd have an 8-port Linksys router there, and each of those ports would wire to another location in the house. That way I could control which ports are live. My one concern is that I just realized the Cat5e cable that I bought at R***Shack is UTP (Unshielded). Do you think that will be a problem in the central area, where there are going to be 8 cords coming out of a relatively small area?

I mean after they are sprawled out a little, I don't think they will be a problem, because they will probably be split to 4 sets of two going to different rooms...it is just that one central area, where all 8 are coming from, that I worry about. Thanks for the response.

 

[Heisenberg]

I doubt you'll have a problem. Shielding on cables is meant to keep out external, larger sources of RFI. Each cable will put off some RFI, but with only eight it shouldn't be enough to cause interference in the others. I've got seven cables all coming together where they plug into my hub and have no problems.

 

[Utterman]

UTP cable is what you want for your job. Shield Twisted Pair cable is a PITA to install whenever I have worked on it. I wouldn't stress much about the interference because it will mostly go unnoticed. Just make sure that the cable is 100 meters from the router to the computer and keep the cables away from power cables.

Good luck and use some fish tape 🙂