Hi
I'm a student and moving into our new rented house shortly. The router will be downstairs, and I want a wired connection to my room, which is upstairs, where it'll be connected to another router to shield my internal network traffic from my housemates. Wireless is out of the question due to the size of our house and the high speed broadband; I don't want any speed drops.
The easiest way I can think of is to run the ethernet out the window, and down the side of the house, up to my room window, rather than doing it inside. I've ordered a 30M cat5e cable to do this, as I don't want it to be messy inside. Bearing in mind there will be no drilling holes, nailing clips, burying in the walls, etc.
My question is, how long do you think an exposed cat5e cable will last outside? Considering I only paid £3 for it, ordering another one to replace it doesn't present any significant issues. I currently have an outdoor thermometer and this past winter the cable froze and snapped, although it was quite a bit thinner than cat5e.
I'm a student and moving into our new rented house shortly. The router will be downstairs, and I want a wired connection to my room, which is upstairs, where it'll be connected to another router to shield my internal network traffic from my housemates. Wireless is out of the question due to the size of our house and the high speed broadband; I don't want any speed drops.
The easiest way I can think of is to run the ethernet out the window, and down the side of the house, up to my room window, rather than doing it inside. I've ordered a 30M cat5e cable to do this, as I don't want it to be messy inside. Bearing in mind there will be no drilling holes, nailing clips, burying in the walls, etc.
My question is, how long do you think an exposed cat5e cable will last outside? Considering I only paid £3 for it, ordering another one to replace it doesn't present any significant issues. I currently have an outdoor thermometer and this past winter the cable froze and snapped, although it was quite a bit thinner than cat5e.
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