Getting ethernet to the other side of my house

[Imagine-Wagons]

Hey

so recently we’ve decided to build another small house on our property the only thing is i’m wondering what the best way would be to get wifi/ethernet from one side of my property to the other through my garden? It’s a distance of 30-40 meters from the router to where we need to go

[jj9987]

Run an Ethernet cable. Add switches/APs where necessary.

[SupaKomputa]

Get an Access Point run wire from the router to the access point.

Or you can buy another router and run it in access point mode.

Ideally you want an access point in every 10m on each floor.

Since you building a house it's better you laid a lan socket on each room, since copper still better than air.

[ProjectBox153]

Is laying a physical cable a possibility? If you could do that you could just put a switch in the new building and add APs as needed depending on your existing network setup. 

[Dutch_Master]

Considering that connection will be there for a fair while, you may want to consider using fibre-optic cable instead. This allows for an easy upgrade path in the future, just swap the SFP modules at the ends with SFP+ or QSFP for an increase in speed from 1 Gbit/s to 10 or even 100Gbit/s. Of course, the rest of your network should support it too, but that's a matter of timely investment (paying money at the right time, when the tech is mainstream, so fairly cheap). A 100Gbit switch is now some 10k in US currency, in 10 years probably 250-ish. We'll see.

[Falcon1986]

7 hours ago, Dutch_Master said:

Considering that connection will be there for a fair while, you may want to consider using fibre-optic cable instead.

And the same can’t be achieved for less expense using CAT6A buried in a conduit? IIRC, fiber doesn’t like to be bent much. Then there’s the added cost of transcievers.

[Darren]

You will want to use fiber here, you want to avoid ground loops caused by bridging two buildings eletrically with copper cabling.

 

Conduit, run of fibre, cheap media converters or switches on each end with some SFPs from fs.com and you're done.

[Aragorn-]

Wether you use fibre or copper, do multiple runs.

For 30 meters, i'd probably just send a bunch of copper over.

 

The main issue with fibre is typical home-gamers tend to have to buy pre-terminated fibre leads, and dragging the big bulky end connector thru a conduit is prime for damaging the fibre. A commercial installer would pull a bundle of unterminated fibre and then make it off into a patch panel.

[Guest willies leg]

Just run a copper ethernet, cat6 can go 100 meters.

Fibre is overkill, way too fragile. It's glass. Glass breaks. In fact, watching Linus run that glass in his office made me cringe, not only was he forcing it into those small cracks he was bending it way too much. Gotta keep a minimum radius at all times. Can't run it around a corner like he did.

 

Oh, and when you run the cable in the conduit, run an extra string and leave it there so you can pull something else if you need.