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Re:Building a Mesh Network in Rural Somaliland by rosser on Friday January 03, 2014 @12:31AM (#7004318)
Is a Cat6 cable inside a plastic conduit that susceptible to getting hit by lightning though?

IANAE (electrician), but per my understanding, putting copper cable inside a PVC (or other plastic) conduit is among the worst things you can do; it gives the strike only one place to go: down the copper.

EDIT: I found a comment on a CCTV forum site that corroborates this: http://www.cctvforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=79496&sid=0e2686464...

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Re:Building a Mesh Network in Rural Somaliland by pedrocr on Friday January 03, 2014 @07:26AM (#7005098)
That's because you're protecting against the end-point getting hit (in your example a camera) and then using the cable to conduct. But if the APs are inside the buildings that's not what we're protecting against. Instead we're trying to not get the cable itself hit.
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