Connect garage to house for allow fast access (gaming / VR)

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I currently have my main gaming machine hanging from the wall in the garage. It connects to the main network via the Gigaclear (Linksys) mesh network (3 boxes to improve signal - One to the outside wall, one in the lounge, and one in the garage). I would like to be able to play games on the PC, via my Quest 3 headset from the comfort of the livingroom. To achieve that I need a hard-wired ethernet connection from the garage to the house.

The plan is to run a Cat6a cable from the garage to the livingroom (next to each other, but separated by about 5m.) I will be repurposing the hole for the old Sky dish cable into the house. I envisage:
  1. Cat6a cable running between the garage wall and the lounge wall (will either bury it, or run it along a wooden fence).
  2. Ethernet socket on the garage wall interior, connected to the PC via a short Cat6a lead.
  3. Ethernet socket on the lounge wall, connected to the Linksys Mesh extender that the Quest 3 will connect to.
I've gone for 6a to future proof the system (I know over that distance I'll probably not see any difference between 6 and 6a)

Im looking for advice on what to buy cable and box wise.

Cheers :D
 
So you want to connect two buildings and don't want to use the appropriate cable to do so, have you looked into the wiring regs regarding isolation and grounding? If it were me, i'd choose the easy route, fibre, conduit, micro trench and inch or two deep and two mixed mode Chinese switches from (insert your favoured online marketplace here). That gives you 10Gb between switches now and an easy path to more, but it's probably not that different in price to the £100 roll of cable option. Of course, you could go ghetto and just run 5e (because it's easier to work with than 6a and will do 10Gb over much greater distances than that), but copper is a dead end, not future proofing. I mean technically so is the OM4 i'd suggest using because it's cheap and so are the transceivers.
 
I've got no issue buying the right equipment for the job - in fact, I'm specifically NOT looking to ghetto the solution (as much as I love and old-skool ghetto mod!) - I am just trying to find the smartest way to avoid paying 5x the prive because it is such a small run.
 
Avalon said:
So you want to connect two buildings and don't want to use the appropriate cable to do so, have you looked into the wiring regs regarding isolation and grounding? If it were me, i'd choose the easy route, fibre, conduit, micro trench and inch or two deep and two mixed mode Chinese switches from (insert your favoured online marketplace here). That gives you 10Gb between switches now and an easy path to more, but it's probably not that different in price to the £100 roll of cable option. Of course, you could go ghetto and just run 5e (because it's easier to work with than 6a and will do 10Gb over much greater distances than that), but copper is a dead end, not future proofing. I mean technically so is the OM4 i'd suggest using because it's cheap and so are the transceivers.
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If they're on the same mains electrical feed, for something like a network cable in a residential setting I don't think you need to go massively OTT.


Personally when I ran the network out to my garage I used external cat 5e, run in conduit pinned along a wall for most of the way, then dropped it under the garden path where it had to cross that (an investment in a 1m sds drill bit ;)), then in a shallow trench for the last 50cm before bringing it up.

It's been fine for the last 15 years.
 
Made the call. 50m of AWG 'direct bury' waterproof Cat 6. Ive cleared a path through the bushes along the wall so I'll run it along that. I went long as I decided to run 2 lines instead of 1 - there was only a couple of quid difference between 25m and 50m. It also means I'll have enough left over to make the internal cables too. I finally took the plunge and picked up a crimping and testing set so I'll know if my handy work has been successful :D
 
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