Need to get Internet access at my workshop. It's a bit over 500 ft away from my house. I have cat 5 cable, but signal won't travel that far on it. Looking into cable boosters. But are there other options?
>>110239327you want a wireless transmitter, provided you have line of sight. They're usually called point-to-point systems.
Have the cats do your internet searches for you and print/deliver the top results to your workshop
>>110239327either directional wifi antennas or a fiber optic cable run
>>110239327If it's your own ground, just string a bit of fiber between them.
Starlink is an option. Sure it's a bad option, but it's an option. I hope that helps.
>>110239327fiber
>>110239327You only have CAT2 it seems. You need 3 more cats to bring it up to CAT5 spec.
>>110240024CATs is lazy, and even 5 refuse to travel 500 ft.
>>110239327If you can bury, just use direct bury fiber. The cable isn't that expensive and the transceivers can always be upgraded. If you get metal-free cable it also becomes immune to lightning strikes.
ethernet to fiber to ethernet (aka media converter)
This is the correct solution if the shop is near anything with line-of-site of your house. Burying cables for that length is much more expensive and difficult to install and maintain. This is the kind of solution that has existed for your use case for decades.
>>110239327A good directional yagi WiFi antenna can work upto 2 miles away with line of sight.You can buy them online fairly cheap or make one from stuff you probably already have laying around at homeHere is one made from popsicle sticks and paperclipshttps://www.instructables.com/Easy-to-Build-WIFI-24GHz-Yagi-Antenna/
>>110239327The maximum length of copper cables before serious signal degredation is around 150m, or 450 ft.The maximum length of fiber optic cables is, well I don't really know. That's because the maximum length of fiber optic cables is longer than the maximum circumference of the Earth.
