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   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2017-04-15 01:27, Dan Purgert wrote:   
   > Tomos Davies wrote:   
      
      
   >>   
   >> But most people don't live in mountains where the houses are perhaps miles   
   >> apart but still in plain sight or where five hundred feet of cat5   
   >> cable can be left undisturbed lying on the ground connecting the   
   >> homes.   
   >   
   > You may want to check your local fire codes concerning that -- it's   
   > against them here (Eastern US), due to the differences in   
   > ground-potential, and that in the event of a short, the mains voltage   
   > may decide the best path to ground is via the ethernet cabling.   
      
   At those distances, I would thing fibre. At least, optical couplers.   
      
      
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   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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