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<blockquote data-quote="Mark DeArman" data-source="post: 64234" data-attributes="member: 950">Re: Cat5 cat5e or cat6 options?There should never be any reason to apply a telescoping ground to Ethernet; from a connectivity perspective.&nbsp; I would look at more typical problems like bent/kinked cabling.&nbsp; Damage to the twist in differential cabling can be the biggest problem.&nbsp; See the many youtube videos of people kinking the cable and showing the bandwidth cut in half...&nbsp; Yes, you can step once on a cable and loose a lot of the bandwidth with Ethernet.&nbsp; Of course this goes the same for audio cabling which is shielded.&nbsp; One step is enough to deform the shield and make it worthless.&nbsp; It&#039;s always awesome at a venue when the production guy drives over your measurement mic cable with his golf cart six or seven times.........100Base-T will when not properly shielded, causes some big spikes around 1k if you&#039;re using crappy line level interconnects.&nbsp; The Gigabit ones seem to also show up on RG58 coax connections.&nbsp; Better connectors, better wire, with a tighter shield will cure this for unbalanced signals.&nbsp; The better the individual devices are designed as far as RF shielding, the less this shows up.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mark DeArman, post: 64234, member: 950"] Re: Cat5 cat5e or cat6 options? There should never be any reason to apply a telescoping ground to Ethernet; from a connectivity perspective. I would look at more typical problems like bent/kinked cabling. Damage to the twist in differential cabling can be the biggest problem. See the many youtube videos of people kinking the cable and showing the bandwidth cut in half... Yes, you can step once on a cable and loose a lot of the bandwidth with Ethernet. Of course this goes the same for audio cabling which is shielded. One step is enough to deform the shield and make it worthless. It's always awesome at a venue when the production guy drives over your measurement mic cable with his golf cart six or seven times......... 100Base-T will when not properly shielded, causes some big spikes around 1k if you're using crappy line level interconnects. The Gigabit ones seem to also show up on RG58 coax connections. Better connectors, better wire, with a tighter shield will cure this for unbalanced signals. The better the individual devices are designed as far as RF shielding, the less this shows up. [/QUOTE]

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