Which cable has less signal degradation over length...co ax or Cat 5?

Question

need to either move the modem or leave it where it is and run cat 5 to the other side of the house...but I either have to split a new line off of the main drop from my cable provider because as you split the cable again and again the signal becomes to weak for good internet. So I either run about 30 feet of co ax of 30 feet of cat 5, which will lose the least signal over length?

Answer 1

I'd run Cat 5. You can run into annoying signal noise problems if you start splitting your coax too much.

In large installations, (650,000 SF Aircraft Hangar) they use cat 5 all over the place in enormous runs, and don't have problems.

I've run, in my house, 50 ft of cat 5 from the modem to a router, then another few 50 ft runs to computers all over, no problem, AND it's cheap and you can disconnect it with a click, instead of a wrench.

Answer 2

Well cat 5 is usually the best. It is good to 330 feet with out adding a switch. It does not have loss to that distance.

Coax will have loss for each connector, each splitter, each etc..
Its the reason it was dropped several years ago in networks.

Answer 3

30 feet wont matter really which you choose - go with what's easier to run for you