Coax & cat 5 pull

[Rob Seastrom]

Alex Fraser <beatnic at comcast.net> writes:

> I'm running a new hunk of coax to my cable box.  I thought I'd run some cat 5
> Ethernet cable over in the same pull, so I can stream videos from the net. 
> The coax is I believe RG6 with a copper shield and also a foil shield.  They
> will be pretty close together, even touching.   Will there be interference
> problems? 

You shouldn't have any mutual interference problems (we do this sort
of thing and worse at work, often with cable that is much less tight
than rg6 such as belden yr46940), but where's your cablemodem live?
There is little point in running cat 5 to a place where there is only
a 75 ohm splitter.

-r