Networking Home Office

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Published on 2014-08-20T22:49:36Z Indexed on 2014/08/21 4:23 UTC
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I'm in the process of building an office in my garden. It's about 25m away from my house.

I'd like to run a wired network connection to the office. I'd rather not go down the powerline route, as speeds don't seem great, and I'm likely to want to be moving a lot of data around on the internal network.

I have an electrician who is running armoured electrical cable to the office, and is providing conduit for me to run network cable. My questions are:

1) What type of cable to run 2) How I terminate/connect it at both ends

I could get something like armoured cat6 utp solid core (like this: http://www.netstoredirect.com/cat6-cable/289166-external-armoured-cat6-utp-solid-cable-price-per-metre.html) which seems fairly robust, but then I have to terminate it. Additionally, where the cable enters my house, there is about another 15m to where my router is situated.

I also read this artice: http://www.audioholics.com/audio-video-cables/bjc-cat-network-cable-quality-interview which scared me into realising I don't know what I'm doing!! particularly with termination.

Or I could get an "cat6 external patch cable" (e.g http://www.netstoredirect.com/rj45-network-cables/239231-external-cat6-utp-ldpe-rj45-patch-leads.html) and run that in the conduit, and work out how to terminate it at the house end. At the office end I guess I can just plug it into a switch.

Any help?

Thanks

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