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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => Routers / COVR => DIR-655 => Topic started by: rwillow on July 26, 2010, 03:47:32 AM
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My son house is 400 feet from mine, can I connect another router to my 655 so he can have internet at his house. The house is not in line of site but could put a cable in.
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A CAT5e cable (good quality, no cheap knock off) should work OK.
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Would something the following work?
1. Weather & UV Resistant Outdoor Jacket
2. Aluminum Foil Shielding
3. Static Drain Wire (Ground wire)
4. Water Resistant Jacket (Almost as thick as the outer jacket)
5. Four Twisted Wire Pairs
Specs:
-Direct Burial Cable w/ Foil Shielding
Rated CMX
LSZH-UV Outer Jacter (Low Smoke Zero Halogen)- UV stabilized for Outdoor Use
Meets TIA/EIA 568.b2 Standard (great for 10/100 or 1000 mbps Gigabit Ethernet)
STP... Aluminum Foil Shielded with Drain Wire.
4 Pair, 24AWG, Solid Core Copper
ULŪ Listed
RoHS Compliant
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your ISP may not be happy with your using your internet to supply another homesite. Most TOS probably state 1 home/1 Family type of use....or something like that....
You might need to put a powered switch on the far end to help make sure there is anough juice to power the circuit back to the router....
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I agree with Sammy, although I've always thought the distance one can make a Cat 5 cable was about 100 meters maximum (or about 300 ft). You may get some loss of the signal for anything longer than 300 ft, but I suppose that depends on how the quality of the cable is.
If possible, I would use a switch/HUB between the two houses rather than at the end. May not be possible if there is no power supply or shelter between the two homes, so in that case I would follow Sammy's advice. Who knows, maybe you won't get any signal loss over 400 ft and you won't have to worry about it all...
Good luck!
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Use high quality outdoor cables. It should work fine, I've seen many 500 ft connections without data loss because of the high quality and shielded cables. I doubt if hub outside would be an option.