Best way to access router top house to bottom

WrathOfAchilles

WrathOfAchilles

WrathOfAchilles

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Hi all,

My folks place has an annex built on the side which im moving into this weekend. The router is upstairs in the main house, to run a cat5 cable down is a possibility but it will likely be > 100m

My router is wireless but signal is lost by the time it gets to the lounge in the annex. Im a big gamer, signal has to be good.

Whats the best way to go about this? Method and equipment.


Cheers,
Achilles
 
How big is the house to need 100m of cabling? I could wrap 100m around my house 5 times and still have enough to go from upstairs to downstairs!
 
littledave said:
Agreed 100m is a very long way, from the top to the bottom of an average 3 bed house would be about 30-40 metres id expect.
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Only if you go some crazy route with it...

I live in a 3 bedroom semi and we have a cable going from our hallway, outside, up the wall to the eaves of the roof and then into the attic. It is only 10 metres and there will likely be some slack left over too once it is wired up!
 
if you have a house to warrant a 100mtr run of cable you must be able to afford a second internet line?
HEHE.

Cat5/6
WiFi AP in Point-to-Point bridge mode
Home plugs

^ in order
 
If Cat5/Cat6 are really out of the question due to distance then I doubt you will be able to get wireless to work, in addition you said Annex so a seperate building meaning its own power supply which could effect the use of homeplugs

If none of those are an option go for fibre, I just checked on ebay and for £24 you can get a pair of 100mb Ethernet-fibre transceivers, you could just connect one to the router, one to your PC and run a Fibre cable between them
 
Ph4lanx said:
Multiple wireless routers in bridging mode? Effectively bounce the signal to where you want it.
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Increasing chances of loss and latency, fairly horrible solution is connection quality is an issue. It's either homeplugs if they work for you (depends on quality, age and layout of wiring), cabled with either copper or fibre or a seperate connection. If you're existing connection is decent and up to the job I'd go for cabled...
 
ubersonic said:
If Cat5/Cat6 are really out of the question due to distance then I doubt you will be able to get wireless to work, in addition you said Annex so a seperate building meaning its own power supply which could effect the use of homeplugs

If none of those are an option go for fibre, I just checked on ebay and for £24 you can get a pair of 100mb Ethernet-fibre transceivers, you could just connect one to the router, one to your PC and run a Fibre cable between them
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huh :confused:

I recon if you run the CAt5/6 outside up the house you probaly will be within the 100m limit. If not put a switch in there somewhere to multply the signal.

I havnt heard of these fibre boxes but fibre is expensive and needs to be put together by a professional. Do you have a link?
 
100M of cable goes a long, long way. Get yourself a bale of string and get an accurate idea of how much you really need. Even so you can just use a cheap switch as an repeater if you need multiple lengths of cable to go the full distance.
You'll want to use CAT6 too to guarantee performance over the full distance and futureproof yourself. Get it professionally installed with faceplates and it'll add value to the house.
 
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