CCA Cat5 Cable

[Bezwick]

My collegue has just purchased some cat5 cable to install in is house. We have just discovered that it is CAT5e-CCA cable as mentioned in this article

 

Copper Clad Aluminium, Cat 5e

 

I was wondering has anuyone here come accross cable companies using it instead of real CAT5 Cable as its advertising is subtle and a lot of people could easily make that mistake.

 

cheers

[twin--turbo]

IT'S Crap.

 

We spent ages (even replacing active equipment and a 200 mile midnight run) thinking some radio gear was faulty as it was getting 1Mb Down 5Mb up and randomly falling over. Last ditch before going up a large mast we put the radio onto the old cables in the building rather than this new drop cable, 30Mb/30Mb and totally stable. The stuff is junk, even worse wen doing POE.

 

Rob