Farmer Giles wrote:
I have an outside workshop/office that I ran some cat5 cable to some
years ago. This link is now playing up a bit - intermittent - and I have
been looking at replacing the cable, which I know has become a bit
fragile in places - a bit of a tedious job.

I understand that such a link can be achieved with suitable adaptors
through the ring main. Has anyone here done this who can offer
advice/guidance as the best and most economical way to go about it?

I found that for anything more than 'within a house' sort of distances
networking over the mains wiring was really not very useful.

We have a house with a detached garage about 20 yards away and a
cabin/office a similar sort of distance (from the garage). Our mains
incomer is actually in the garage. I had an overhead UTP cable from
house to garage which connected to (among other things) a backup
system in the garage. When it finally died a few months ago (after
working at gigabit speeds for many years) I tried networking over
mains from house to garage. It did work, just, but was only capable
of around 1MB/s (i.e. 10Mb/s) which for backups and such was marginal.

As I was also aiming to provide a connection to the cabin which would
be better than the existing WiFi (not *that* bad because it was
'outside') I bit the bullet and buried some ducts with UTP cable.

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Chris Green
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