Just buy a 250’ spool of Burial Cat5E cable and trench it from your house to your barn. Then you can just add a cheap switch and plug a WIFI AP in the barn and have one in the house and the barn. Can be done for less than a couple hundred dollars.
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Just buy a 250’ spool of Burial Cat5E cable and trench it from your house to your barn. Then you can just add a cheap switch and plug a WIFI AP in the barn and have one in the house and the barn. Can be done for less than a couple hundred dollars.[/QUOTE]
good point, Cat5E goes up to 100 meters. (Although I’m guessing it could go somewhat further for personal use situations).
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Just buy a 250’ spool of Burial Cat5E cable and trench it from your house to your barn. [/QUOTE]
Unfortunately, if a previous warning was not heeded, then a lightning strike to a lightning rod on a barn or to earth far behind that barn can also be a direct strike to electronics inside the house.
Both ends of a Cat5 cable must connect to the structure’s single point ground before entering. Either directly. Or in the case of ethernet, via a protector that also has the wire to connect low impedance (ie less than 10 feet) to earth.
Protection increases if an ethernet cable shares a trench with a bare copper earth ground cable.
