Our main garden building is an insulated summerhouse that’s used as a garden office throughout the year. For calling and productivity applications, a fast and reliable internet connection is essential. As our outbuilding is positioned far away from the house, we were not in range of the wi-fi connection from our home router. Finding the best outdoor ethernet cable for a garden building can be difficult with so many options available. Lots of terminologies can make it hard to compare products.

Most garden buildings feature timber walls where a small hole can be made to feed the ethernet cable into the interior. Be sure to seal around the cable to prevent water from getting in during the winter months. Given the potential pitfalls of shielded cable, it is a good idea to carefully consider your environment. trueCABLE carries a number of CMX rated Ethernet cable types, and further information around selection is found in Selecting the Correct Outdoor Ethernet Cable . Dealing with Direct-Burial ScenariosAnother decision is whether to use an unshielded or shielded ethernet cable, with most being unshielded. The difference with a shielded cable is an aluminium foil that is inside the cable and wrapped around the twisted-pair wiring. Shield cable is used to prevent interference that can slow down or cause errors in the internet connection. The standards and protocols used for internet cabling are continuously evolving. The most common decision is whether to use Cat5e or Cat6 ethernet cables, with Cat6 providing the best performance. Cat 6 is capable of gigabit speeds (this is dependent on your network). Our cat 6 cables are high spec 23 AWG cables that are easily installed and provide reliable results every time!

You'll also want to pay attention to what each cable is made of. Some offer poor designs that can lead to accelerated aging or fraying over time, while others can withstand harsh weather conditions for years on end. To make digging a trench more efficient, a trencher machine can be rented from the local equipment rental store. Sure, a shovel can be used but it will result in far more mess, take longer and result in a less consistent trench. In the event operating the trencher is beyond your comfort zone, then hire a local handy person with experience. Eye and ear protection are important. Dealing with Above-Ground Scenarios

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Our kenable Cat 6 outdoor networking cable has FULL COPPER 23AWG twisted pairs and can be used indoor as well as outdoor. Its ideal for long or short runs and is UV resistant thanks to its PE sheath ensuring it wont erode over time like standard networking cables when left outside. Our Cat 6 cables are also waterproof and can even be buried underground! One last thing to keep an eye out for: most Ethernet cabling is of the “patch cable” type, which is used for standard connections such as plugging a NAS drive into a router or a games console into a powerline adapter. However, you may also come across “crossover cables”, which can be used to connect computers directly together. Don’t buy one of these by mistake! If you have an underground rodent problem in your area (moles) your buried Ethernet cable is at risk. It is advisable to use conduit in this circumstance, and preferably metal conduit. The costs are higher, but the benefit is the conduit need not be buried as deeply.

Searching for ethernet cables online can often result in lots of different options. To understand the differences, we need to know what the terminology means. Everything from the outer shielding to the internal cable material can be different.Put simply, a mesh network is a group of devices that act as a single Wi-Fi network. Instead of boosting a signal from a single router, they all act as additional sources - or points - of Wi-Fi around the house and they communicate with each other wirelessly. One less obvious thing to consider is what sort of cable construction you want. Most Ethernet cable consists of stranded, shielded wires inside a flexible plastic casing, which is easy to wind up and move around. However, solid-core cable is less susceptible to interference and offers slightly better performance. It’s less flexible, but if you’re running cable inside a wall it’s a good choice.