Going over 300 just limits you on speed after errors
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Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I needed to get internet to a building that’s around 400 feet away. I had the opportunity to get a trench dug, so I took a gamble, laid a conduit and ran shielded CAT6. I say gamble because that’s over the rated limited of CAT cable, but I figured it was going to be easier then trying to get a reliable wiki bridge running. The home network itself has been solid since.
ikidd@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I thought it was more to do with packet loss.
ikidd@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Packet loss is primarily a CRC thing. You might get 99% of a packet, but it fails the error check so it’s dropped and re-requested.
dan@upvote.au 2 days ago
shielded
FYI, the shield only does something if you ground it, and you need to be very careful to only ground one end so as to not introduce a ground loop. If it wasn’t grounded then regular unshielded Cat6 probably would have performed the same.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’s grounded. It’s also running parallel to an underground power line, but I made sure to maximize the distance between the two as much as I could. Around 12 inches if I remember correctly. No issues that I knew how to test for at the time and it’s been about ten years with no need to modify anything. Some I know I would have had to do if it was a wifi bridge by now
ThomasLadder_69@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
If you have poe on the output end, there are repeaters that you could have buried along with the cable. Not a big enough signal difference in your case to be worth it probably but worth noting for other folks.
Cort@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Eh, there’s conduit, so they can always upgrade to fiber down the road.