Hi Guys,

Not sure if we still have the knowledge for this on the forum, but someone needs to get wifi in a building 150m away from their main house, cost isn't so much of an issue within sensible limits..

They are laying an armoured mains cable, so if we can do something underground then that's ideal, but CAT6 is a 100m limit and there is no option for power in between.

So options are:

- Run 150m of armoured CAT6 next to the mains cable and cross your fingers!
- Building to building focused wifi antenna between the two, there are trees next to building 2 so may need a pole the other side of the trees (no ideas if the trees are going to make an impact?
- Armoured fibre optic cable between the two, not sure what available at "consumer" level?
- EoP (Ethernet over power) Assuming we can get it on the same ring main, does anyone know how this should work over 150m?

It needs to be reliable not need support in life, so money spent up front, rather than cheap components?

Does anyone have any experience or is there anything I have missed?

Cheers

Jake

Yeah the full 150 meters is underground, so that's why I'm a little concerned, it's literally under a garden so no option for a repeater, the main problem is we can't really test it until weeks later, it looks like its going to be about £450 for that length (after a quick google)

It needs to be quick enough to browse the net reliably, the internet in the location is probably going to be no more than 10 meg at the router..

Still don't want to spend £450 if its either unreliable or non existent?

Although don't want to miss out of the opportunity to hardwire underground as it's a lot less hassle than anything else if it works..

if that some kind of special cable  for going underground ?

can;t remember what I paid for a reel last time... but it was pretty cheap....

you could run it inside a length of hose as conduit and save a few hundred quid ?

I wouldn't fancy trying to push it through a hose pipe of that length, doing 20m gets tough!

Yeah at that price it says it can be buried but it's not cat6a, google shopping returns nothing on cat6a armoured

The expense isn't a problem if I can have some confidence it will work, to be honest the expense might not matter that much, just need to evaluate the options really..

Had a few customers with this scenario. A few went wireless, which works quite well for the money but is far from perfect.

I've seen people do it with basic cat5 

Proper rugged cable is the way to go imo, copper should be ok over that length but make sure it's rodent proof and have a plan for when it breaks.

Well the cat6 cable I found says it's suitable for being buried, so hopefully that'll do it without the effort of feeding it through a pipe..

After having another search armoured 6a/augmented doesn't seem to exist!

I'll pass on the info though as it's not something I'm managing, it's actually for an old client who's after some advice, but I have reasons for supporting them

Fibre is certainly an option, but I've never used it (which is the main problem for me to give advice)

I have no idea how to add connectors to the ends or the Fibre/Copper interfaces, I expect some more googleing may sort that, have you used a fibre netwrok before?

Cheers again guys

Fibre and Gbics are well expensive, as are the switches that support them.

but may work out cheaper in the long run.... when you want more speed & what is done dont work & you end up digging it all up to put fiber in.