[K12OSN] OT building to building ethernet wiring

[Doug Simpson]

If you do run fiber in a conduit (hope you do!) and run a wire with it for 
a tracer, DO NOT connect the tracer to anything at either end!

Doug Simpson
Technology Specialist
DeQueen Public Schools
DeQueen, AR 71832
simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us
Tux for President!

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Petre Scheie wrote:

> If you use fiber, be sure to run it through a conduit, just to prevent an errant 
> shovel from ruining your day in the future.  Also, be sure you bury a wire or 
> some sort of metal with the fiber so that you can find it again in a few years. 
>   I buried a fiber cable some years ago, and it was such a short run we thought 
> there was no need for a tracer.  Then the local power company decided they 
> wanted to change some of their runs, a side effect being they wanted to go right 
> across where the fiber line was and they needed to know where to not dig. 
> Fortunately, we had used a plastic conduit for the fiber, mostly to avoid the 
> afore mentioned errant shovel, and were able to push a copper ground wire 
> through the conduit to help us locate it then and in the future.
> 
> Petre
> 
> Michael Williams wrote:
> >>Hello,
> >>	I wanted to get a wiring opinion from the list.  I need to extend a
> >>network from a school office to a few adjacent buildings.  Each building
> >>will have 5 or less workstations or LTS clients.  The lengths are less
> >>than 30m.  I am considering running cat5e/6 thru metal conduit -vs-
> >>fiber.  I am concerned with ground potential between buildings and cable
> >>loss etc -vs- cat2fiber and fiber2cat costs.  Can I try it with cat, or
> >>should I just use fiber?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > We use fiber on all runs like this, for the same reasons you list, ground
> > potential and the like.
> > 
> > Michael
> > 
> > Michael Williams                   Haywood County Schools
> > Technology Director               Instructional Technology
> > http://www.haywood.k12.nc.us         (828) 627-8314
> > 
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