UTP loop outside house?

[Christian McArdle]

I'd still just use wifi. I had a similar issue with my desktop machine and just bought a USB wireless adapter. You can get them for a touch over 30 quid (the UTP will cost you for faceplates etc as well). My time is too valuable to start installing cables that just don't need to exist. I can also shift my machine easily when I need to. Unless you are shifting huge amounts of data regularly, even 11Mbs is ample, let alone the faster versions now available.

Christian.

P.S. I ran standard UTP on the outside of my parent's house about five years ago. North facing wall. Still works perfectly.

[dmc]

This would be ok for the PC - but my hardware print server would need a WIFI-Ethernet bridge. Not as cheap.

If I could do it with wireless for less than 40 quid I would probably go that route.

If you could *really* get 11Mbs (or 22, or 54 etc) then maybe. As you can't then I would really like the extra speed of wired. One thing that I keep saying I am going to play with is extracting video from my TiVo. If I start throwing video files around from the PC to the server upstairs then 100Mb would be v.handy! I have a wireless net for the laptop and it is great. Not convinced for desktops yet unless they move about a lot.

Good good. I think I will go with a single bit of UTP and a cheap switch. Ebuyer seem to have cheap 8port switches for 8 quid which seems insanely cheap!

Darren

[abuse]

Also check out uk.telecom - there have been several threads in the past 6 months or so on outdoor UTP cabling. For example:

[dmc]

East facing. Sun for part of the day.

I have a route that will mean that I can cabletie it to a downpipe for most of the route. That should give it enough protection for a couple of years I reckon.

Few storms. Never known a strike anywhere that near here in the 6 years we have been here.

Thats the way I see it. To be honest, not much of the kit is worth anything anyway - its old stuff that I have collected which does what I want. If I kill a P200 I won't be too disappointed (particulary as there is a fair chance that my TV, stereo etc will be dead by this point!)

Just what I thought. Cheers

Darren

[Paul]

Still, if this is the Uni that I think you are talking about Bob talking about, then the lightening strike can't have been as bad as that year that a building with a lot of CAT5 in fell into that tunnel...

;-)

Paul.

[dmc]

I think we may just be talking about the same Uni here :-)

Darren

[Bob Eager]

But since that was 1974, they were still using teletypes and Ethernet hadn't been invented....!