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<blockquote data-quote="James Drake" data-source="post: 64109" data-attributes="member: 1917">Re: Cat5 cat5e or cat6 options?If you have a sheilded cable then you should use a sheilded RJ45 connector and properly connect the shield.If you look at the ethercon panel connector, it has two little metal tabs on each side. If a manufacturer is recommending the use of sheilded cable for interconnect then surely they should have tied these little metal tabs to ground inside their gear? Maybe we&#039;re going to start seeing something like the pin 1 problem for cat5 interconnect, where different manufacturers can&#039;t agree on a common grounding scheme?As far as i can tell, the ethercon cable connector is purely a shell. So if you are using sheilded cable and rj45 connector then you shouldn&#039;t need to also tie the neutrik barrel to the sheild.What if you use sheilded cable between two boxes which to not properly ground their connectors (or you have not followed the directions like conductive tape etc)? Do you have a big length of metal which may cause harm to your system?So this begs the question, what to do with installed cable?For a network installation in a building I guess they&#039;re ASSuming that all connections in a building are going to be part of the same network. In which case if their whole network is sheilded it should all be tied to ground at a suitable point, like the main patch panel or something.But if you want to use the cat5 cabling in the building for the task of purely connecting two devices directly together, then they probably want a sheilded connection to each other, which they then ground themselves via whatever method. In this case you probably do not want your shield tied to the ground with the rest of the cat5 cabling in the building!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James Drake, post: 64109, member: 1917"] Re: Cat5 cat5e or cat6 options? If you have a sheilded cable then you should use a sheilded RJ45 connector and properly connect the shield. If you look at the ethercon panel connector, it has two little metal tabs on each side. If a manufacturer is recommending the use of sheilded cable for interconnect then surely they should have tied these little metal tabs to ground inside their gear? Maybe we're going to start seeing something like the pin 1 problem for cat5 interconnect, where different manufacturers can't agree on a common grounding scheme? As far as i can tell, the ethercon cable connector is purely a shell. So if you are using sheilded cable and rj45 connector then you shouldn't need to also tie the neutrik barrel to the sheild. What if you use sheilded cable between two boxes which to not properly ground their connectors (or you have not followed the directions like conductive tape etc)? Do you have a big length of metal which may cause harm to your system? So this begs the question, what to do with installed cable? For a network installation in a building I guess they're ASSuming that all connections in a building are going to be part of the same network. In which case if their whole network is sheilded it should all be tied to ground at a suitable point, like the main patch panel or something. But if you want to use the cat5 cabling in the building for the task of purely connecting two devices directly together, then they probably want a sheilded connection to each other, which they then ground themselves via whatever method. In this case you probably do not want your shield tied to the ground with the rest of the cat5 cabling in the building! [/QUOTE]

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