Can Ethernet cable take the elements?

[Tommer]

Im moving home in the summer and as the distance in my house from my room to the downstairs router is really far and we have wide walls i havent ever been able to get a wi-fi signal.

So i was thinking of buying a long ethernet cable, say 30m and putting it out my windows, throwing it over the house and then in through a window to the router!

This will be for a few months in the summer in a house thats in the middle of no where. See any problems with that?

 

[Tommer]

good good

i have another wireless router that has WDS, but im not sure if that kind of setup would work with the other wireless router that doesnt have WDS

my pc> WDS wireless router > wireless router (with adsl)

As this might bridge the connection gap if the other router was in a good spot.

 

[Tommer]

WDS means you can repeat the router's signal with an ap that supports it, it doesn't mean you can connect two routers together.

so that might work then, like this:

www.hiero.f2s.com/wds2.jpg

only thing you've got to think of is whether you're fine leaving a window permanently open - apart from the wind etc coming in it's a bit of a security risk.

fini.

the windows that i could put the cable through would be the small ones that are at the top of the window, bit of a risk i know, but we're in the middle of nowhere in the country with dogs and alarms etc so it should be ok. Unfortunately the distance is too far to warrant drilling etc and also the house is made of this stuff called 'cobb' which is like mud, dead badgers and horses hair so its never good to mess about with it.

 

[Tommer]

the router downstairs with adsl is a netgear dg834gt and the one with WDS is a BT voyager 2100