I was wondering if I could run an ethernet cable from my router inside to my shed and connect it to another router so I can have ethernet and wifi in my shed.
Yes, probably run an outdoor CAT6 cable and bury if needed.
I worked in an environment where we ended up putting fiber to Ethernet converters on both side. Ran fiber and never looked back. Pre fiber we suffered several lightning strikes that would fry the switches.
I did coax with MOCA adapters.
No more than 100 ft runs ideally.
If you have power in the shed, there are units that you can buy that you plug your Ethernet wire into then plug into the outlet. Put another unit in the shed and they send the signal thru your electrical wiring.
I’d use fiber, conduit and bury it. I got a sprinkler company to do mine. And run extra fibers for long term potential.
I just used a powerline adapter (I owned from a previous house) and a spare WiFi ap. The summer house already had power. It still works despite the small consumer unit in there.
Don’t care about super high speeds really in that location.
Obviously in the future I might run a cable.
Sure, why wouldn’t you be able to? I have an ethernet cable run from the garage to an RV. Cable is run to the garage from the main house.
Fiber… that being said, it wouldn’t cost much to run a few ethernets out as a failsafe.
I don’t see any cops here.
- Use proper outdoor/direct burial rated cable (regular cat5/6 isn’t gonna survive…)
- Grounding is an issue. Make sure you do not have a ground potential issue. Also, install an ESD/surge device just to help. Cheap, and better safe than sorry.
- Honestly, media converters and/or SFP capable network switches aren’t expensive. Conduit plus fiber doesn’t have any of these issues. Worth considering.
I get downvoted every time I respond to one of these posts but hey why not…
I strongly suggest running Fiber with a media converter on each end. This reduces the potential for lightning to travel from 1 structure to the other. Removes grounding concerns. It is by far the safest option.
Yeah I am thinking of going this route
mikrotic switches with sfp+ are relatively cheap and get you 10GB/s. It’s what I use in my separated garage on a 30m run. Melanox makes the card and fiber modules that i use, they are cheap too since most of this will be decommissioned server hardware.
You can, but depending on the setup you should be aware of a few things:
- make sure you don’t have a ground potential difference.
- use appropriate rated cabling and not plain UTP
- you may want surge protection on that line coming in from outside
Do your homework and stay safe.
For these reasons I would personally use a poe switch in my house and a poe powered access point in the second building.
just use a switch and access point in the shed instead of a router. you would have to make sure you get all the router specific settings turned off and some routers don’t let you do that. if you are unsure about it, access point and switch is much simpler.
I was going to say the same thing …I kept reading to see if anyone else did.
Thats a bit more money though
not really. a gigabit unmanaged switch is about 10 quid these days and you can get older enterprise access points from Aruba for about 15 quid on eBay. or a slower consumer unit from TPLink on Amazon for about the same price.
Almost all home routers are really just switches, and you can run them in switch mode. What you want to do is fine as long as the run isn’t too long. 100 meters is the max
Just wanna throw it out, unless you have a brand that allows meshing routers…. Like Asus! It’s literally just a setting in the control panel haha. You just select the backbone method after plugging it in and it pretty much handles the rest!
Just to be clear….”meshing” means a wireless backhaul. Multiple APs delivering WiFi with a wired backhaul is just WiFi as it was intended.
Huh, interesting! While I am in the field, I always thought of wired backbone as still mesh… guess that’s why I can’t find a job 😂
