Garage Conversion Networking 26m from House

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I have Gigaclear gigabit and use the Linksys Atlas Pro 6 Velop Dual Band Whole Home Mesh WiFi 6 System (AX5400) - WiFi Router system

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I'm currently having my separate garage from my house converted into a gym but I want to run a 50m ethernet from the Main Router Hub (Amazon) which is around 26m away to the wall of my garage. I was thinking of this one: Please don't link to competitors

The reason is I am no networker so thought this might be easier? I would have course feed it into some kind of trunking.

Is this a good idea?

I was also wondering though when I bring it into the Garage wall, is there a faceplate I should look out for which means I can just pug into the back of it without having to cut off the end and wire in? I hope I wouldn't lose too much of the speed?

thanks in advance

 

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Hi there, thanks for your advice. So even a complete novice like me can do this you think and not lose any speed.
What kind of cabling should I be looking at for this as it will be in need of being buried outside?

Also, should I consider Cat 7 to future-proof it?

 

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The MikroTik wireless wire will give you gigabit speeds as long as the two units can face each other, and you won't have to do any digging.

Had no idea this kind of thing exists? MikroTik wireless?

 

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I have a similar project coming up soon, I was going to use cat6 but I have also seen premade fibre optic cables which you can buy converters for, seems like a more foolproof option (as no terminating/punches to do).

Wow never heard of this, have you got a link?

 

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wow this does sound like a great solution and future proof as you say.

 

[thisisthecount]

You could do that if you wanted but it isn't worth it in my opinion. You can do 10 gig on copper Cat6a cable on distances of up to 100 metres.

To go the fibre route you'd need a media converter like that one linked, but you'd also need the relevant SFP module for it (which is listed off the same page at around £16 too). There's no need to use single mode fibre with a 50m run so you may as well go with multi mode fibre instead and you'd want an LC to LC cable rather than SC to SC.

So, multi mode fibre LC to LC cable, two media converters (which also need their own power supply) and two LC SFP modules compatible with the media converter. You're looking at £86 or so for all this (£66 for the media converters and SFPs and around £20 on top for 30m or so of LC to LC multi mode fibre) or less than £20 for 30 metres of Cat6a cable. Of course if you have SFP capable 10Gb switches at one or each end already that could change things, but there's just no benefit to fibre over short runs, especially as 10Gb over copper should be more than enough for a long time yet. Besides you never know, Cat6a could end up being good enough for shorter runs on 25Gb Ethernet if we get that over anything other than fibre or DAC cable

Ok I think it makes sense, I need to find 23AWG solid copper Cat6 right? Any recommendations for 30-50m? Outdoor?

I also heard that I need to keep away from CCA ? Copper Clad Aluminum cables

 

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I would use fiber

Wow this is getting even more complex now. How do I stop this from happening?

 

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I would put the Cat6 in the duct and bury the power cable in the ground, you don't need to put armoured cable in a duct and it's a pain to pull round bends anyway. If just the data cable is in the duct then you can pull fibre or whatever through it later on without having to mess with a mains cable.

brilliant, thanks