Hi everyone
I have very little knowledge in this space.
I’m setting up a garden office and need fast internet speeds.
My plan is to run a cable between a router in the house and the garden shed. Overall the distance is 26 meters.
I can’t use the power lines because they are coming from a different box, separate to the house.
Any general advice would be appreciated but I’m specifically interested to know if a fiber optic cable would be better than a Ethernet cable?
If so, how would you connect the fiber optic cable to the house router/wifi point in the garden shed? (i can see that the connector is different but I have no idea how to resolve it. Both the router and shed WiFi point has Ethernet connections)
Many thanks
Phil
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Thank you both! This is super useful advice and much appreciated
Do you need a cable or is a good Wi-Fi connection enough? You have three options, since 26m is not very far.
- Run fiber. You can use so called media converted to convert from ethernet (copper) to fiber, you need them on both ends, they both need power.
- Run an ethernet cable. Since it runs outside, make sure you use a S/FTP cable that is properly grounded on both ends and use ethernet surge protectors to prevent your gear from being fried by lightning.
- Install a directional Wi-Fi access point on the outside of your house pointing in the direction of your garden office.
Run copper for that distance you gain nothing by using fiber.
100% agreed, yet, pointing out all options available is a nice thing to do.
rather than reinvent the wheel
https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/comments/17nr5j5/adding\_internet\_to\_backyard\_shed/
Thanks Jack!