Paul_Bravo
New Around Here
I want to set the table here: We live in the county and have very slow internet service. The best I can get is 20 MB/s via centurylink DSL. I am hoping my Starlink reservation come online soon!
Currently, I run the standard Century Link WiFi router in my house with a hardwired Cat5 Ethernet cable to a slave linksys WiFi router at the other end of my house. I also have a TPlink PoE plugged into the slave router to push WiFi out to my fire pit. We have pretty good coverage from one end of the house to the other, for what it is.
Question: I need to extend my LAN to a barn that is 500 feet away from my house, and then put another WiFi router out there. It has its own electricity meter and is in no way connected to my house, so I need to run a new line. Ethernet will degrade over that distance.
what are my options? I can bury anything in the yard and use a converter on either end of the new buried wire.
I have read I can use twisted pair wire or coax cable with an Ethernet converter at either end. I’m guessing something like this:
1. Connect slave router to Ethernet converter via short cat5 cable.
2. Connect ethenet converter to new buried cable (twisted pair?).
3. Connect new buried cable to a second Ethernet converter.
4. Connect second Ethernet converter to a second slave WiFi router with a short cat5 cable.
Does all this make sense? Recommendations on cable material and converters?
any help would be greatly appreciated!
Currently, I run the standard Century Link WiFi router in my house with a hardwired Cat5 Ethernet cable to a slave linksys WiFi router at the other end of my house. I also have a TPlink PoE plugged into the slave router to push WiFi out to my fire pit. We have pretty good coverage from one end of the house to the other, for what it is.
Question: I need to extend my LAN to a barn that is 500 feet away from my house, and then put another WiFi router out there. It has its own electricity meter and is in no way connected to my house, so I need to run a new line. Ethernet will degrade over that distance.
what are my options? I can bury anything in the yard and use a converter on either end of the new buried wire.
I have read I can use twisted pair wire or coax cable with an Ethernet converter at either end. I’m guessing something like this:
1. Connect slave router to Ethernet converter via short cat5 cable.
2. Connect ethenet converter to new buried cable (twisted pair?).
3. Connect new buried cable to a second Ethernet converter.
4. Connect second Ethernet converter to a second slave WiFi router with a short cat5 cable.
Does all this make sense? Recommendations on cable material and converters?
any help would be greatly appreciated!