Run Cat6 Cable or Move VM?

smogsy

smogsy

smogsy

Soldato
Joined
9 Dec 2006
Posts
9,289
Location
@ManCave
So I have VM BroadBand,

i'm going to move my man cave into a Cabin down the end of the garden
a good 100-120 foot

Now do i:
1. Get VM to move the Cable to Cabin & Setup Wireless from the Cabin to the House for 1 laptop that just a facetop (laptop that goes on facebook :P)

2. Leave VM where its located and run 120 foot CAT6 cable down the garden?

3. is there special Cat6 for outdoor use?
 
The logical thing to do would be CAT6 surely?

cable will be fine through a pipe, even if a tad bit of water did leak

I have a couple of CAT5 runs outside the house, some was placed in trunking, the other quick run not, and has been fine for years
 
I recommend running cat6a cable with 1extra for each run you put in. E.g 1 run put in 2, 2 then put in 4. In relevant trunking.
But
You don't need vm to extend the cable, it's only coax cable with f connectors, if anything it's easier to run a cable down for vm.

You could even run both coax and Ethernet to your cave, have vm in the man cave and then a wireless access point in the house on the end of the Ethernet cable?
 
CAT6 would be the choice if it were me

1) Why use power adapters? especially at length to a log cabin
2) Why mess about with a VM extension? the possibility of adding extra interference and possible network degradiing elements in to the one thing you dont really want to add this to, is your first point where your circuit enters the house
3) CAT6 would be the best choice, as A) your not relying on a powerline signal, B) your not interfering with service provider infrastructure and not adding possible interference or degrading signals from your provider
4) Running CAT6 you have the options of running multiple lays, if something goes wrong you are not touching the phsysical infastructure off your service provider, if anything goes wrong with the VM circuit, and you try and point the finger at VM, they will most likely point it back in your way (or charge you) to look at your internal extension.


Its a bit like having a BT line at home, why extend your master socket and wire it all the way to the cabin when you could just run CAT5/6 and not have to touch your service provide physicals?
 
was not sure if cat6 would lose anything over that distance i know Coax would not lose much at all.

currently getting 155MB
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom