Internet connection not working -- CAT5e
My RV is 300 feet from my S&B home. About 5 years ago I ran (in a pvc conduit) a underground gel filled CAT5e cable from the S&B to the RV. I got good service at the RV with about the same speed as...
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TenOC wrote:
After replacing the ends of the long cable I get and "unidentified" network error. Thus I think I need to spend the money for a new cable. I can not think of any reason to go to a CAT6 cable because as I understand it the CAT6 is NOT high speed at this long a distance.
It does sound like an issue with the cable. Unless you're throughput is 10GB or more the choice between CAT5e and CAT6 is irrelevant at that distance. I'd get whatever is cheaper. With either cable you are approaching the distance limitations anyway.
I have a couple-hundred feet of direct bury CAT6 running to a WiFi hotspot on my property (it uses PoE). The only problem I've had with it so far is that a fox chewed it up one night. The wireless camera connected to the hotspot caught him doing it up until I lost connectivity. He was trying to pull it up out of the ground for some reason.
