My boss has his home network set up in such a way that he has his internet coming into his garage to a cheap Netgear router. From there, it travels 175' of cat5 back to his house. Once in the house, he has it connected to the wan port of another cheap netgear router.
He said it worked all winter without problem, and since summer started, it has been intermittent at best. He only has the cable buried maybe 6" under ground. My thought is that the sun blasting the ground all day is heating up the copper and increasing resistance enough to cause problems.
I've had issues with netgear routers not pumping out strong enough signals from the lan ports before, so my current thought is that this can be resolved in one of two ways.
1. replace the netgears with routers that have higher signal output
2. replace the buried cat5 with cat6, and go deeper than 6"
He isn't a fan of option 2, so I was going to start with option 1.
Just looking for input, opinions, advice, etc.....
He said it worked all winter without problem, and since summer started, it has been intermittent at best. He only has the cable buried maybe 6" under ground. My thought is that the sun blasting the ground all day is heating up the copper and increasing resistance enough to cause problems.
I've had issues with netgear routers not pumping out strong enough signals from the lan ports before, so my current thought is that this can be resolved in one of two ways.
1. replace the netgears with routers that have higher signal output
2. replace the buried cat5 with cat6, and go deeper than 6"
He isn't a fan of option 2, so I was going to start with option 1.
Just looking for input, opinions, advice, etc.....
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