Outdoor cat5 cable needed

[dlf]

The short of it is that earlier today a Ethernet cat5e cable was cut that was outside our house thinking it was a phone line cable ('member those?). We need a replacement  I believe that is ~50 ft (or 15.24 meters) the writing on the cable says:

 

0188 feet cat-5e general cable j 2001345 cmx outdoor -cmr . . . (it's not cut off there but the rest seems a little pointless)

[Ezzy-525]

Amazon has a lot of Cat5 cables which claim to be suitable for external use:

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/OUTDOOR-EXTERNAL-cat5e-Network-Ethernet/dp/B009U81EFI

 

The only thing I'd check is to get a replacement which has the same casing material on the cable, just to make sure its actually going to weather the elements.

 

EDIT: P.S If this is for use on an internal network, you might want to go for Cat6 over Cat 5e as a form of futureproofing. (Cat 5e is 1gbit, and Cat 6 is 10gbit) this might be useful if the cable is going to be there for a number of years.

[ARikozuM]

It needs to be shielded and UV-resistant.

[Syntaxvgm]

7 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

It needs to be shielded and UV-resistant.

grounded too. 

[Oshino Shinobu]

14 minutes ago, Ezzy-525 said:

EDIT: P.S If this is for use on an internal network, you might want to go for Cat6 over Cat 5e as a form of futureproofing. (Cat 5e is 1gbit, and Cat 6 is 10gbit) this might be useful if the cable is going to be there for a number of years.

If it's going to be 50m, that's right on the edge of Cat6's 10G distance limitation. If there's additional patch cable at the ends, it likely won't be capable of 10G. Given that the price difference is quite small, I would advise going for Cat6A so that 10G capability is certain. 

[dlf]

I said 50 ft (feet) (about 25 meters). Secondly this is a house, not a company, nor does our ISP (AT&T give anyway NEAR 32 MB, try ~2MB) let alone 10 GB . . . . Also I'm in the US. . . .

[Ezzy-525]

17 minutes ago, dlf said:

The cable likely would be there a while, but also we don't get anywhere near

You might not get anywhere near that for internet speed but switching your network to Cat6/6a (depending on cable lengths like Oshino Shinobu said) would greatly futureproof internal file transfer times on the network as files (esp. video) get larger and larger.

[ElSeniorTaco]

there is special cable designed for this, I forget the name of it, but it is made from a compound designed to be resistant to weathering/corrosion. I have never used it. But I did have the idea to run cable underground purposed to me, and my research on a solution came to that specific type of cable.

 

However if im not mistaken , it was still recommended to run it through a pvc and not just the bare cable (and not to mention at the time it was also very expensive, that could be different now) . Also if you run it through pvc, I think you can run any cable as the pvc will protect it. And its not going to get cut nearly as easily in the future thanks to the protection.  And pvc is pretty cheap, you can get 50 feet of it for less then 20$. I wired up some lights out side using pvc here in Florida, only ran it a few inches under the ground. you can basically drag a pick of some kind through the ground to make the hole. The lights were fine years later, actually the plug corroded way before any thing else and the line inside the pvc still in perfect shape.