Good day
I have a dilemma related to the Internet network in a free-standing building. It's about grounding the shielded network cables.
I have (unfortunately) used FTP cables (the marking on the cable is U/FTP - shielded are 2x4 wires + there is a thin bare metal wire going next to the foil). I'm trying to figure out how to ground it now in a simple way to make it work but without using shielded sockets and grounding through devices.
Although I can use a crossover knife, I'm a layman - I've already started doing this network myself and want to finish it myself - mainly for financial reasons. Let's leave aside questions of competence.
I plan to:
a) in the rooms use ordinary sockets without shielding and connect to the devices already UTP cables without shielding.
b) in the box where all the cables come together use a strip with RJ45 sockets also without shielding and there also connect to the devices already with UTP cables.
c) ground the shields on one side, in this box - but before the RJ45 sockets on the strip - that is, somehow gather together those bare steel wires that go along the shielding foil or use metal clamps on the foil (before the sockets in the RJ45 strip) and bundle this together to ground.
d) connect this grounding somewhere
Questions:
1. Is the idea of not using metal sockets and plugs that carry the shielding to the devices, and instead grounding the wires separately valid ?(I know it's unprofessional but will it work well)
2. Is it correct to ground the FTP wires on one side?
3. what to connect the grounding to ? - Dig something into the ground (I read something about metal buckets filled with sand and salt), or maybe to the grounding of the electrical network - yellow wires in the outlets? (I have some copper rod buried in the ground, but I don't know if some current is not induced on these wires because the electrical network quite convoluted although installed by a professional electrician, of course - I can measure I guess.
I would be very grateful for an answer from someone expert in matters of stray electrons.
I have a dilemma related to the Internet network in a free-standing building. It's about grounding the shielded network cables.
I have (unfortunately) used FTP cables (the marking on the cable is U/FTP - shielded are 2x4 wires + there is a thin bare metal wire going next to the foil). I'm trying to figure out how to ground it now in a simple way to make it work but without using shielded sockets and grounding through devices.
Although I can use a crossover knife, I'm a layman - I've already started doing this network myself and want to finish it myself - mainly for financial reasons. Let's leave aside questions of competence.
I plan to:
a) in the rooms use ordinary sockets without shielding and connect to the devices already UTP cables without shielding.
b) in the box where all the cables come together use a strip with RJ45 sockets also without shielding and there also connect to the devices already with UTP cables.
c) ground the shields on one side, in this box - but before the RJ45 sockets on the strip - that is, somehow gather together those bare steel wires that go along the shielding foil or use metal clamps on the foil (before the sockets in the RJ45 strip) and bundle this together to ground.
d) connect this grounding somewhere
Questions:
1. Is the idea of not using metal sockets and plugs that carry the shielding to the devices, and instead grounding the wires separately valid ?(I know it's unprofessional but will it work well)
2. Is it correct to ground the FTP wires on one side?
3. what to connect the grounding to ? - Dig something into the ground (I read something about metal buckets filled with sand and salt), or maybe to the grounding of the electrical network - yellow wires in the outlets? (I have some copper rod buried in the ground, but I don't know if some current is not induced on these wires because the electrical network quite convoluted although installed by a professional electrician, of course - I can measure I guess.
I would be very grateful for an answer from someone expert in matters of stray electrons.