Interweb access work around - Would this work

Maslofski · January 13, 2015

Ok, so this is going to be a bit of a complex situation to describe so ill try my best.

Right now we have 2mb internet from Cable & Wireless for $25,

Download Speed: 1767 kbps (220.9 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload Speed: 389 kbps (48.6 KB/sec transfer rate) Latency: 38 ms 01/12/2015 23:11:46

so in the past few weeks, fiber with up to 15mb got rolled out, with 4mb for $23. We tried to get us a line from them, but the technicians came twice, and both times they said our house is too far off the road to be able to connect it (~150m/~500feet).

Now my idea was to have it installed to the neighbours house (a nice old lady who lives across the street but owns a second empty house across the street besides us), and take a (cat 5/6? read that cat 5 reaches 300feet lossless) ethernet cable from their house to ours.

Would this be posible?

What cable would be needed?

Would this affect stability and ping?

Would there be lots of data lost?

Any better ideas or suggestions?

Atlantisman · January 13, 2015

1. CAT5/6 should only be run a max of 100 meters.

2. You could do this though, i would get a shielded outdoor cable and bury it.

3. No, it shouldn't effect performance at all really (unless its over 100 meters).

4. As far as better ideas, not really. You could do this with Point to Point wireless hardware, but going with the cable will be cheaper and more reliable.

Maslofski · January 13, 2015

1. CAT5/6 should only be run a max of 100 meters.

2. You could do this though, i would get a shielded outdoor cable and bury it.

3. No, it shouldn't effect performance at all really (unless its over 100 meters).

4. As far as better ideas, not really. You could do this with Point to Point wireless hardware, but going with the cable will be cheaper and more reliable.

yeah wireless is definitly not an option, is there any cable that would work for longer then 100m?