Question about running internet a long distance from the source. Bear with me, I'm ignorant about this stuff.
I've got a cabin back in the woods. It's about six hundred feet back from the main house. Would it be feasible to run internet back that far? Should I use cable like or ethernet? Would one degrade the signal faster than the other?
You'd want to run fiber or coax, or just pay for cellular 4G out there.
Cat won't work after 100m.
Use a cable underground so it doesn't get fucked up by the weather over time and don't be a faggot.
Yeah and a repeater or two wouldn't be worth buying when you could just run it on a medium capable of going the 600 some feet.
Signal is shit back there.
Cat?
I don't understand.
>Cat?
Cat is a very commonly used cable standard. He's saying you'll need to buy something more specialist.
>600 ft through woods
as long as it's not really thick woods then a high-gain directional wifi antenna at your house and and cantenna at the cabin might do well enough
this website is for adults only.
Would the source have to be fiber as well or could you go from "cat" to fiber and back.
Nope.
Fuck off.
CAT5e Ethernet requires a repeater after 100 metres. (~330 feet)
You can do single mode fiber however over 20km. So get two Ethernet to single mode fiber media converters. Hook one up to Ethernet at your source. Run fiber to your cabin and then Ethernet from that media converter to a WiFi access point or switch or desktop or whatever you need internet on
Thanks! Any idea what something like that would cost?
laser ethernet would be the best bet if you've got a clear LOS but I don't even know where you can buy that shit.
Two of these
datainterfaces.com
And then ~600 feet of standard single mode fiber 1310nm with SFP terminations.
Should run you under $300-400 depending what you buy exactly.
I'm looking up fiber prices. They all list different numbers of strands. What's the difference?
This should be what you want
sanspot.com
Difference is are for longer distance, different operating environments or different network topologies.
If the woods aren't too dense, a 2.4Ghz or maybe even 5Ghz point to point would be more cost effective than fiber. For around $150,you could get something with 100Mbps of throughput
Also, some advice when working with fiber, never bend it sharply or crush it. You'll fuck up your cable.
I'd recommend installing it in a PVC conduit if possible
Latency will hurt here. Not to mention gimping yourself to under 100mbps is silly. Laying fiber allows cheap 1gbps and in a few years when 10gbps fiber media converters come down in price you don't even need to replace your fiber, just the converters at each end.
Can you define too dense?
Noted. Thank you.
I've only got 65 up at the house.
>I've only got 65 up at the house.
currently
4 years ago I had 50/10mbps today I have symmetrical 1gbps.
Fair point.
Just pay somone to run fiber from the house to the forrest house.
And while you're there pay him to wire your house properlly.
>Can you define too dense?
Generally if there isn't line of sight, don't try it.
If it's a couple trees with gaps between, fine. But any dense wooded cover will destroy signal strength
At 5ghz even rainclouds will start messing with your signal (if it passes through the cloud obviously)
>Just pay somone to run fiber from the house to the forrest house.
Fuck that
At MOST pay a Mexican or two to dig you a trench from the house to the cabin. Lay the fiber yourself and hook up the end bits yourself. Should be a simple drill job for that part.
A pro would charge $500-800 on top of the cost for the equipment
If you've got a clear shot you could always look into directional point to point radio/wireless to link both buildings.
See above. Woods, mate.
stop being autistic and dont live in the forest. wontfix
Fiber is best bet for any connectivity, even 4g wireless will be gimped by the trees
Make sure you get durable shit
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I'm, being reclusive, not autistic.
[spoiler] Made you look, faggot [/spoiler]
See, if I was autistic, I could get the spoiler to function, properly.
No, if you weren't a spewing newfag, you'd know Sup Forums doesn't have spoiler tags. Sup Forums is not your personal tech support, fuck off.
ur being autistic (and reclusive). thers no reason not to live in the city
post a pic of your shack, i love cabin lifestyle
CAT = Ethernet