On 29/11/2020 15:13, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 29/11/2020 13:04, 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?

Frankly it doesn't work

speed is vile, and reliability is poor. If possible sort the cat 5 out
or use optical link or wifi dishes

High gain wifi antenna at the remote end is a possibility. I do that to
make my home internet accessible from the village hall (or at least I
did until they got their own connection). Solwise sell suitable antennas
and Morgan have Wifi USB dongles with socketed antennas.

FWIW apart from a six monthly reboot (which is only necessary if the
mains stays up that long here) I find mains internet fine for anything
other than high bandwidth streaming. Certainly well up to internet
browsing and printing across the network.

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Regards,
Martin Brown