greased cat 5 cable?

I wanted to run about 200 feet of cat 5 cable underground but our IT guy says that it has to be a greased coax cable.

I've tried looking it up but as far as I can tell its just means waterproofing it.
What exactly is a greased coax cable?

 

Why not just run CAT-6 STP? Nice and thick, lots of shielding. Pretty cheap in large quantities too.

 

huh? coax cable != cat5 cable. sounds to me like your IT guy is full of crap. just grab some conduit and run the cable through it. the site i was working on this summer had cat5 cable running underground between all the security centers, and it was just standard cat5e inside this stuff. and the cable for our in-ground sprinkler system control boxes was just unprotected cat5 buried 18" below the surface.

 

Sorry for the confusion, its the "greased" part that I dont understand. What we have is a cat-5/coax cable.

 

You can't have Cat5/Coax, they are completely different and distinct technologies. Coax is the stuff you get to run TV with, over here it's used for Cable TV and Satellite TV (both "thick") and there's a thin one for analogue/internal connections.

Cat5 is twisted pair cable.

If your IT Guy says you need greased Coax then it's probably a crock of crap.

 

tell him that he needs a vga cable for his microwave

 

I thought they were esata these days?

 

If he was serious, LOL! If not he totally took you for a ride!

This also reminds me of things that military guys do to new recruits that have no clue as to what they are doing! Like getting grease from the kitchen for the 'after burners'.

 

"Do you sell headlamp fluid?"

 

At my last job they had me go look for the 'wood stretcher' LOL. Luckily someone told me it wasnt real. They onetime had a guy looking for it for 2 hours.



Anyways heres what I get when I search for 'greased coax'

 

Roll your own. All you need is a water based lube, like KY Jelly, and the cable. For fun you could use Anal-EZE. That would put a spin on the data.

 

You can get "outdoor" cat5, which is just a bit tougher than the normal stuff. That's probably your best bet.

 

Woah.

Please refrain from employing your photographic skills on this subject.

 

Does it make the data move faster as there is less friction

 

By greased he means jelly filled.
but you dont really get jelly filled coax cables, only multi-paired cables.
And the jelly filling does not make it waterproof. The outer sheath does that.

depends if you are doing a direct burial - if so get steel wire armoured SWA, but again thats not a coax variant.

What are you trying to achieve?

Basically your IT guy doesn't have a clue.

Standard cat5 will not stop water and moisture ingress, but it is resistant. It IS fine on the outside of a building or something for ages especially if it is black.

 

Is it just for ethernet?

 

Not sure how up to date your IT guy is, but last time I put in a coax-based network was probably '95 or '96.

By 'greased', he may be referring to a cable that has a lubricant coating, to reduce friction when pulling through conduit.

 

I'm pretty sure he's talking about a petroleum jelly filled cable, which is common for multi-pair external applications, but I'm talking like 50 pair plus

 

yeah this is just for internet.
and I dont know what I was smoking last night. Guess this is what happens when you watch two seasons of scrubs in one day. Forget I even mentioned coaxe. Maybe I had that on my mind for the VHF antenna that I am setting up later on, it uses a coaxe cable.
This is just cat 5.

 

Make sure it's left handed too or you will be sorry.