On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 16:21 +0000, Chris G wrote: > in reality ordinary cable will survive some years outdoors. > > I had some old-fashioned "thin ethernet" running out of the window and > over the flat roof of my garage at my old house for several years. I > removed it when we moved house and it was in perfectly serviceable > condition still. I've found variable results. Some goes rigid and inflexible after exposure, and will crack if you flex it. For coax, the outer cover is part of the characterisics of the cable, if that chemically deteriorates it can affect performance (e.g. becomes permeable to water). Not that I'd expect to see trouble from ethernet use, but perhaps for comms. > If there's a choice dark colours are likely to be better in a very > sun-exposed position than light colours. I would have thought otherwise, but that seems the conventional wisdom. Black will absorb more heat and cook itself in the sun, other things can reflect it away much better. Though is seems usual that the chemicals in black plastic are more stable. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.23.1-10.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
