Cat5e Cable

JasontheMason

A friend is giving me 200' of cat5e cable for $20, and instead of buying a USB cable can I use the cat cable and just put the USB ends on it? And do you need a special crimp or something to do it? I have done phone cabbles before like this. But havent done it on the USB.

And how would you run it thought 3 floors? Should I try and go in the walls or what about takeing the bottom molding off and running it behinde that?

Thanks

mdshunk

USB? You're goofy. Stick to laying bricks.

Same Old

Two words:

wireless

JasontheMason

I try to stick to bricks, but I was told you could, but I tought it was ethernet. But I might be wrong there too.

Ill probly just go buy the cable.

vwovw

you won't need it. I mean you can use it for a few years. Go wireless. i mean hell cable companies will be gone hgtv is replacing vhf.

Teetorbilt

HUH?

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giddonah

You're looking for ethernet ends, you crimp them on with a rj45 crimper. Look up how to do it and run the wire however you want. It's not hard, you can get a crimper for $20. You just have to get the wires in the right order in the plug.

Wireless isn't always the answer folks.

mdshunk

He said USB, though. For all I know, he's trying to cobble a USB cable with Cat5e.

GregS

The USB-IF cable spec is a maximum of 5 metres. And even at that length with manufactured/molded cables that can sometimes be iffy because the equipment you are connecting may suck. (most of the Chinese OEMed stuff just barely meets USB-IF compliance, if at all)

Just what do you need to run at that length?

JasontheMason

I havent done it yet. What I need to do is wire a PTZ camera. It doenst come with a wire less set up. And it is far from were it will be watched. So now that the USB is out, I do have a 2.4 GHzWireless B broadband router, 802.11b by Liksys router at my computer. So after that I need some help. I will look around for transmitters and recievers.

Here is the link- http://www.spytechs.com/spy_cameras/ptz-c3090.htm

Ideas/suggestions?

EDIT-It has to go from my basment up to the second floor. And idk if that is 200' but that is how much I had.

Thanks

GregS

That would qualify as cheap Chinese OEMed product.

Doesn't really make any sense to have a PTZ camera on USB when you require a computer less then 5M away to drive it.

For another hundred USD you could have purchased a DLink DCS-5300. Plugs into ethernet.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...456&CatId=1931


If you can return it, I'd recommend it and go for the proper device to run that length.

Or if you want to seriously get into CCTV, pick up a few composite video cameras, run RG6 to them and plug them into a capture card on a dedicated computer.

JasontheMason

I didnt but it yet. And I might go with the one that you suggested.

giddonah

Quite right. I just figured he was networking two computers.

http://www.ramelectronics.net/HTML/u...t_adapter.html

I have no idea if this would work for your application or not, but it's cheaper than the $250 camera. You could hook it up to an ethernet cable long enough to go where you want just to test the picture. We usually run RG59, cat5, and some kind of power, 14-2 or so to each camera, but these are $5k cameras. Good luck on your project, I'd like to hear your solution.

GregS

That would be the exact opposite.

This is an ethernet adapter for a computer that plugs into a USB port, not a "turn peripheral USB into ethernet" adapter.

Interesting is it states gigabit speed, when USB 2.0 high-speed has a theoretical maximum of 480 megabits.. (which is near impossible to hit because of the overhead of USB processing performed by the host CPU)

giddonah

Right.

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/p...s=19&c=us&l=en

GregS

Cool. Company from my home town gets into Dells catalogue.