I am building a cabin near my house...approximately 500 ft from my house with my orignal DSL connection. I have other things running underground so i thought about internet. Are there special long distance cables? I have a linksys router, is it powerful enough to push the current? Ive heard of cat5 and cat6...no idea what they are. Any such thing as a "booster"? Please help : )
2007-03-06 10:49:53 · 8 answers · asked by Jamie C 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
Also....Will it last underground without any piping? It will be about 18 inches under the ground which is well below frost line here...
2007-03-06 11:04:01 · update #1
First, unless you use outdoor cable you should definitely run a conduit. There are several reasons for including protection for the cable and future additions. With a conduit you can always add more later. Run a string with the cable through the conduit so in the future you won't have to fish the conduit to run another cable.
Second, you can try to just use copper cat5 or cat6 cable but it probably won't work well. There are "boosters" available from companies like BlackBox. These are little boxes you plug into the wall and your cables that convert the Ethernet signal to a different signal then reassemble the Ethernet signal on the other side. They only use one pair of wires and can utilize cat3 cable (much cheaper than cat5 or 6). The only downside is your max transmission is 16.67Mbps.
Here is the link to the extenders http://www.blackbox.com/Catalog/Detail.aspx?cid=381,1452,1464&mid=3921
Ideally you should run multimode fiber but since you are not experienced at this I would recommend hiring someone to do this for you. You can save some money buy laying the conduit yourself. If you end up buying cable you can obtain it fairly inexpensively from http://www.cablesupply.com
2007-03-06 12:20:05 · answer #1 · answered by MG 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take it from an A+ Certified tech. Cat-5 cable can run 100 meters before you start encountering signal strength issues. After 100 meters, you should think about using a repeater or a switch to keep the signal strength good.
2007-03-06 10:56:11 · answer #2 · answered by Big Q 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
500 ft. is pushing it. you must use cat 6 because it will lose less signal strength. the linksys router is simply that, a router. it does not " push ".
you should also put the cable in conduit . Do not run the computer cable near the electrical lines, because you may get interference.
2007-03-06 11:14:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
cat5e and cat 6 can go 100 meters as stated by previous answers. Copper will work but with diminshed speed. fiber is what you need with 2 transcievers. either way it needs to be outdoor copper/fiber.
2007-03-06 11:12:22 · answer #4 · answered by jasonm 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
384 feet is max limit of CAT5e
you can run it longer but you will not get full cat5e spec' speed
you will get many packet error and one hec of a lot of CRC checks, so your speed will drop really low,
you better off going wireless with a modified wifi antennae
2007-03-06 11:19:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well you can run a connection inside a PVC pipe made for wires and if you don't have any damage to the pipe you should be good for a long time.
2007-03-06 10:55:05 · answer #6 · answered by Ivan A 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
328 (100m) feet is the suggested maximum length for a cat5e. After that you need some sort of repeater or switch.
2007-03-06 10:53:23 · answer #7 · answered by Mantis 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Get 2 copper to fiber transceivers and you can run multimode fiber for 2km or singlemode for 5k+.
2007-03-06 10:59:20 · answer #8 · answered by OE "800" 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
300 feet
It can't hurt to try it! Insert a hub (repeater) when in doubt.
2007-03-06 10:52:51 · answer #9 · answered by bobweb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think thats too long ... its like max 300' or somthing ... if it was me i would get a good wireless access point and be done with it ..
http://www.duxcw.com/faq/network/cablng.htm
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2007-03-06 10:52:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋