Subj : Re: PoE Window Passthroug To : Barry Martin From : Ky Moffet Date : Sun Nov 23 2025 07:15:00 BARRY MARTIN wrote: > Hi Ky! > > > > Not really ChitChat but as this is where we are congregating.... > > KM> Cuz we're all lost. > > But I was following Mike! > KM> Where's he going?? > > I don't know but so far lookins interesting! Well, now we're lost! > KM> Mostly the complaint is that aluminum has such poor network > KM> transmission qualities compared to copper that you end up > KM> replacing the cable anyway. But I expect it might also overheat > KM> used for PoE. > > That would be bad! I'd think if they wanted to use aluminum to save > over copper the overheating problem is solved by using a thick gauge, > but then probably the reason for using aluminum over copper is to save > money, so using more aluminum tends to defeat the savings. It's not being done for savings. It's being done purely to cheat consumers (one guess where they're made and who the vendors are). These cables are advertised as being pure copper, are priced only slightly below the real thing (but enough to attract unwary buyers) and you only find out they're not when you get tons of network errors and try replacing one of the ends, and find the wire is not copper after all. There are loads of angry reviews on Amazon. > KM> Came across many complaints while I was looking for a wholesale > KM> source for the Starlink cable, which needs to do PoE > KM> (snow-melting heater in the antenna). Fake (aluminum core) cables > KM> abound. -- The cable they ship in the kit was way too short, and > KM> I didn't like $150 for theirs at retail! > > Yesterday I purchased the supplies for the project: the outdoor-rated > Ethernet cable is "100% pure copper" (even the insulation?!). The One wonders.... I think right now I'd only buy from Jacob's Parts or one of the server supply houses, as they have a track record and a customer base intolerant of busted network parts. > material for the through-the-window adapter was not stated. There was > also a Starlink adaptor for some semi-astronomical amount. Current (gen3) Starlink equipment can take a standard plug (gen2 was proprietary), but the special plugs are designed to be waterproof and to be both quite sticky in the port yet to be unplugged with a firm yank, since once the antenna is installed on a post, you can't reach the port anymore. > KM> Yeah, I think if I were building a house nowadays, I'd include > KM> weatherproof portals for cables and such. Several of them. And > KM> conduit big enough to drag cable through, if I had to. > > Right. When we built on the Master Bedroom I did run a low-voltage > multi-conductor cable from the basement to the second floor (where the A which what? > bedroom is) in case needed. So far no. Should have run an Ethernet > line too just in case -- don't need (so far). Famous last words!! > When remodelled the Dining Room/Family Room I did run a couple of > Ethernet cables -- one eventually was put into use. SEE? > Wireless is good - when it works! Alas, WHEN it works. I need to get a repeater for the other house. *sigh* > .. WiFi Password `2444666668888888'. I get asked and say `12345678'! Forgot my password. þ RNET 2.10U: ILink: Techware BBS þ Hollywood, Ca þ www.techware2k.com --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com (454:1/1) .