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?

Its how I run data to my workshop...

With homeplug in general, when it works, it works well and needs no
setting up - plug and go. Most units seem to be pretty reliable - I have
not had any lockups or needed to reset of re-pair them, although some
people have more difficulty.

However it has limitations. You will get the fastest speeds when the two
devices share the same circuit. They will also work between circuits,
but performance drops off.

On my setup I am running through three CUs, and a pile of RCDs and MCBs.
The range is probably only 30m:

Home plug device - MCB - RCD - RCD - Fuse - RCD -MCB - Home plug
device

But that is enough to drop the data rate to no more than about 5 Mbps.
On simpler circuit arrangements you might get 20+ times that.

Alternatively, you could look at wireless bridge options. That can work
well for longer ranges with the right kit.


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Cheers,

John.

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