Topic: Ethernet Run between 2 buildings?

[plains203]

I know I am late to this post, but a chain saw makes a great trencher.  It dulls the hell out of the chain, but chains are easy to replace or sharpen.

That would be a brilliant way to ruin the bar.

[Shadow_7]

Easy to replace chainsaw blades, sure.  Cheap?  Not when you're in Arkansas and every 3" is a rock.  As my Dad found out after some weather knocked out about 29 of his trees (roughly half).  And just cutting the root ball out (with rocks entrenched) went through at least 3x blades.  In the end I think we used just about every tool he had on his property.  Just to get it out of the ground and up to the front of the property to be picked up.  4x 200+lbs kids and a wheel-barrow that probably needs to be replaced now.  And it's mostly safe to walk the property again.  Foul mouth water snakes, and the remaining 29+ trees that could drop an 80lb limb on your head without notice, not with standing.

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At some point I'll post pics
I just used a pressure washer , mostly to go under the 4 sections of sidewalk and 1 section of curb, and a trenching shovel. It only took about 4 hours to dig most of the trench - including under the sidewalks and curb.

It's not far under the ground maybe 1 foot, but we don't get hard freeze's here and cat6 is not in anyway suseptiple to freezing - especiallly inside the 3/4 grey electrical PVC conduit.
got a APC surge/ground on each end of the cat6 at building entry....
works awesome so far  I am now running 5Ghz n network from my airport extreme.

--Ian

[taosmay]

I thought it best not to start a new topic of my own, for what I think is a relatively simple question. So, I did a search and came up with this somewhat similar topic. BTW, I hope this topic project came out good for you, Ian.

I want to run a wired ethernet network cable from the second floor of our house down to the first floor. I'm thinking 50' of cat5e should suffice in order to run  it along edges where it will not be a trip hazard. My service with our ISP is .5 Mbps Asynchronus. My question is if a 50' run  of cat5e cable at our connection speed would be diminished at all/much at the end of a 50'cable ? Anything else I should be concerned about with using that long of a run to my router ? Please do not discuss the option of going wireless, since that technology directly impacts my wife's health. Thanks

~ Harold

[vanark]

You will not see any issues with your speed on a 50' run of cat5e

[pdxdanmusic]

I thought it best not to start a new topic of my own, for what I think is a relatively simple question. So, I did a search and came up with this somewhat similar topic. BTW, I hope this topic project came out good for you, Ian.

I want to run a wired ethernet network cable from the second floor of our house down to the first floor. I'm thinking 50' of cat5e should suffice in order to run  it along edges where it will not be a trip hazard. My service with our ISP is .5 Mbps Asynchronus. My question is if a 50' run  of cat5e cable at our connection speed would be diminished at all/much at the end of a 50'cable ? Anything else I should be concerned about with using that long of a run to my router ? Please do not discuss the option of going wireless, since that technology directly impacts my wife's health. Thanks

~ Harold

Have you thought about powerline networking? Make sure you don't use a surge protector but works great for me.

[taosmay]

Thanks for the answer to my question, Vanark.

pdxdanmusic: after reading on howstuffworks, powerline networking would not seem to suit our needs. We only have/use one laptop computer in our home. Our usual second floor computer room gets a little cold in the winter for my wife (off-the-grid home/passive solar heat and wood stove on first floor), so I want to run that long cable from our router on the second floor down to the first floor, with the same laptop. Thanks anyway for the suggestion. Need to start off-gassing that long, new cable now, so it will be ready for in home use for my sensitive wife by the winter time...

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I thought it best not to start a new topic of my own, for what I think is a relatively simple question. So, I did a search and came up with this somewhat similar topic. BTW, I hope this topic project came out good for you, Ian.

I want to run a wired ethernet network cable from the second floor of our house down to the first floor. I'm thinking 50' of cat5e should suffice in order to run  it along edges where it will not be a trip hazard. My service with our ISP is .5 Mbps Asynchronus. My question is if a 50' run  of cat5e cable at our connection speed would be diminished at all/much at the end of a 50'cable ? Anything else I should be concerned about with using that long of a run to my router ? Please do not discuss the option of going wireless, since that technology directly impacts my wife's health. Thanks

~ Harold

Did the powerline. but when the buildings are on separate circuit breakers it doensn'tnot work good at all. Bough and sold them.
The Ethernet trench has bee working excellent!

I swear I did post the pics...already.
I'll look to photo bucket. and see where they are.

I since purchased 2 airport express units, to extend my wireless back into the house... and it works great I can use cog via airplay using airfoil to stream the multiple terrabites of music into the house so the entire family can listen.!


Have you thought about powerline networking? Make sure you don't use a surge protector but works great for me.

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Since I swear I already posted these pic I u/L 'd to Photo bucket... and they don't appear here...
here they are: