Extending wired network 500ft

Eman91 · Apr 1, 2014

I am building a new out building on our property. It measures about 500ft +/- from where my cable modem and wireless router are. I currently have a cat6 cable run from where the modem is all the way to the out building, but I have a feeling just plugging it in wont result in very good speeds.

Any suggestions on how to extend the signal to be more powerful at the end of the line? Ive seen a few products that plug in right before the cable that goes out, that claims to boost the signal up to 1000ft, but im a little skeptical.

Thanks in advance,
Evan

EDIT: Any suggestions on boosters to buy?

ahnilated · Apr 1, 2014

well remember that normal network runs can only be 100M in length for 10base t or 1000 base t

You can look here at the distance charts:

http://www.proprofs.com/mwiki/index.php/Network+_Tables_&_Charts

The Ginger · Apr 1, 2014

328 feet maxumum, on cat6.. and the signal boosters making it range to 1000ft do actually work.. albeit, expensive.

bill001g · Apr 1, 2014

There are devices you can run at those distances but they are not ethernet. Most are a form of DSL similar to how a telco provides dsl to people houses. Because these are very specialized devices so they are kinda expensive. Cisco used to sell a line of devices but they are discontinued but I suppose you could get them on the used market.

It used to be suggesting fiber for a home solution was not cost effective. Now you can media converters or small switches for well under $100. I am going to bet it is going to be cheaper to run fiber and use fiber converters than trying to buy a solution that will run over copper cable. You will also be able to run 1g full duplex where many of the metro copper solutions are well under 100mbit/sec

abailey · Apr 1, 2014

bill001g :

Fiber is by far the best solution, but how would a home user install that himself (at 500ft). Would you not have to get bulk cable? Is it easy to put the ends on the cables? Or do they make 500ft outdoor fiber with the ends already attached?

bill001g · Apr 1, 2014

abailey :

They have premade cable with ends attached at fairly standard lengths...1000ft is the longest have ever seen. Most companies will make what ever length you want with whatever ends you like when you want longer ones. You just have to be careful to not damage the ends when you run in though the conduit.

They make snap on ends that work pretty easy which is fine as long as you are not doing single mode cable or trying to run 10g over the fiber. You need to fusion splice them if it is 10g. The cutting tool to cut fiber is pretty inexpensive.

A cabling company will charge pretty much just a trip fee of about $100 and will terminate a small number of fibers which is what we do at work most the time.

Still I would just order a custom length cable with the ends already on it.

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