Cat 5 ethernet cable
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gaborbarla
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Yes. It will be fine. As long as the Voltage it not high the magnetic field wont do anything. network cable should also be twisted to reduce any magnetic effect. I myself have never noticed a networking problem due having power supplies or their cables running next to my network cables.
In theory it could but in reality it is very rare even at longer distances. Since it is against building code to run and low voltage cables (ie ethernet) and power very close in the walls you never see the problem even if it can happen. It is against the codes for safety reasons not to avoid interference anyway.
We have huge numbers of ethernet cables and power cables all stuffed next to each other in wire management in server racks and never have seen issues.
We have huge numbers of ethernet cables and power cables all stuffed next to each other in wire management in server racks and never have seen issues.
The cable speed is controlled by the equipment on each end. If they are set to 1g it runs 1g if they are set to 100m it runs 100m. The cable does not run 95.1m or some strange speeds it only passes the data though from the ends.
The concern with power is that it causes errors in the data. The data still runs at full speed. What happens is the end device detects a error and discards the packet. This causes the end application to have to retransmit the data. Since you now have to send more data the total throughput it less. The data going though the cables is still being sent at full speed but the applications are not counting data that has errors.
It is highly unlikely you will ever get any errors. It takes a huge magnetic field to disrupt the signals in ethernet cable. I suppose if you wrapped it around the power cable a couple hundred times you might get it to induce errors.
The only time I have ever seen power cause errors in ethernet cables is when someone ran it though a ceiling fluorescent fixture that had poor quality ballast in it.
The concern with power is that it causes errors in the data. The data still runs at full speed. What happens is the end device detects a error and discards the packet. This causes the end application to have to retransmit the data. Since you now have to send more data the total throughput it less. The data going though the cables is still being sent at full speed but the applications are not counting data that has errors.
It is highly unlikely you will ever get any errors. It takes a huge magnetic field to disrupt the signals in ethernet cable. I suppose if you wrapped it around the power cable a couple hundred times you might get it to induce errors.
The only time I have ever seen power cause errors in ethernet cables is when someone ran it though a ceiling fluorescent fixture that had poor quality ballast in it.
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