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Youngest daughter has decided to return to the nest after several years of living in the big city, now that she is permitted to work from home most of the time. She's bought herself a mobile home as an office, and wants to set it up at the far end of one of our gardens/orchard.
I have to connect the electrics up to it, and this is where I need help. Not with the 230V stuff - no problem with that, but it's this data/internet stuff where my knowledge is severely lacking.
Current set up is fibre to property, giving a speed of about 60Mbps, into a BT modem, into a BT Wi-Fi router, which is in a property under renovation, so the Wi-Fi output isn't normally used. There are three yellow RJ45 sockets on the back of this router, one connected by about 15m of Cat5E to a Wi-Fi router in my house,, one connected to a POI injector, then about 10m of Cat5E to an outside Wi-Fi router that provides coverage to three holiday cottages, and one socket currently unused.
There is a trench being dug from the electricity source to the caravan, which is about 80m, and there is an internal route, through various roof spaces and sheds, from the BT router to the start of the trench, which is about 65m, so a total of about 145m.
The main question is, will the signal travel along this length of Cat5E or Cat6 without deterioration and loss of speed? Daughter's work requires a reliable and decent speed of internet connection, so it has to work well.
I have to connect the electrics up to it, and this is where I need help. Not with the 230V stuff - no problem with that, but it's this data/internet stuff where my knowledge is severely lacking.
Current set up is fibre to property, giving a speed of about 60Mbps, into a BT modem, into a BT Wi-Fi router, which is in a property under renovation, so the Wi-Fi output isn't normally used. There are three yellow RJ45 sockets on the back of this router, one connected by about 15m of Cat5E to a Wi-Fi router in my house,, one connected to a POI injector, then about 10m of Cat5E to an outside Wi-Fi router that provides coverage to three holiday cottages, and one socket currently unused.
There is a trench being dug from the electricity source to the caravan, which is about 80m, and there is an internal route, through various roof spaces and sheds, from the BT router to the start of the trench, which is about 65m, so a total of about 145m.
The main question is, will the signal travel along this length of Cat5E or Cat6 without deterioration and loss of speed? Daughter's work requires a reliable and decent speed of internet connection, so it has to work well.