Cat6 FTP to Standard Wall Jack

[samb]

Hello,

Do you think I will see performance issues if I take my Cat6 FTP cabling and lunch it to standard wall jacks (rather than shielded wall jacks?)

Thanks
Sam

 

[L&LD]

My crystal ball says 'yes'.


Eventually.

 

[azazel1024]

By FTP you mean STP, right? (as in shielded twisted pair)

Also, yes, possibly/probably. Not properly terminating the shield is going to make the shield operate as a big inducer as currents pass down the wires.

A short length probably isn't going to do a thing. A long length might introduce too much noise in to the signal for it to hit gigabit speeds.

Its why I NEVER use STP. I've never had a reason to need it and if not installed properly is can cause problems that UTP never would.

 

[Cloud200]

Hello,

Do you think I will see performance issues if I take my Cat6 FTP cabling and lunch it to standard wall jacks (rather than shielded wall jacks?)

Thanks
Sam

You can do it . . . as long as you use some other method to ground one end (AND ONLY ONE END) of the shield in the cable.

 

[azazel1024]

Yeah, make sure you don't ground both ends, or else you can get a ground loop depending on the location of the final grounding locations.

Hence why I don't mess with STP since I have no reason to ever need it. Just too many ways it can be messed up.