300 feet of Underground Cat6 ???
At my long-term parking location I need to run a 300 foot Ethernet cable for my internet connection. I will be using Cat6 unshielded full copper underground cable. Question. 1. Since only 1/2 of t...
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Heap64 wrote:
Copper network cable between buildings isn't the best idea. I have seen multiple situations like this that lightning or some other power surges will zap the network card on either end of the cable. At a minimum I would add surge protection to help cover your network adapters. I would use wireless these days.
We have never had a problem with lightning on our underground Ethernet links. We have had several where it came in over the power lines. You can use a Cat 5 surge protector
Transtector Cat 5 Surge Protector
You could also use underground fiber, which would assure high speed error free communications up to 1,800 ft on multi-mode fiber. Fiber and fiber transceivers are now quite inexpensive.
