"Chips" wrote in message
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Well, the time has finally come to shift most of the computers out into
the garage (apparently).
Having already got enough power out there I need to put in a fat data pipe
to connect the lot to the house switch - cat5e will do nicely because I
have lots. Wireless is an absolute worst case scenario both for speed and
price and we need to connect to the servers for data (video/music etc).

The garage is not connected to the house and is separated by about 3m of
paving/drive/whatnot.

Any suggestions for running the cable ?
I'm aware that pushing it through the same conduit as the power is a no-go
and I really don't want to dig up the drive unless I have to. I suppose I
could take it under a patio and through some of the lawn if I must. On top
of that I naturally don't want to spend very much time or effort.

My solution to running telephone, data and an air line between two
buildings a couple of metres apart was a piece of 100mm square 6mm wall
steel tube 3m above ground.

Colin Bignell