Internet bridge from house to shop.

OP is needing 100 feet from house to steel walled shop/barn.

Unless you have $$,$$$ to spend for a FIBER network inside your house and barn, Cat6 is good.

CAT6 supports 10 Gigabit Ethernet, but only up to a distance of 164 feet. After 164 feet, CAT6’s speed is limited to the same as CAT5e at 1 Gigabit. But 1 Gigabit is still fast for most things.

But Cat6A is good for 10 Gigabit Ethernet over the full distance of 328 feet. But $$ per foot.

Is anyone using 10 Gigabit to stream Youtube or read FABO???? The FULL 10G?


Wants over Needs IMHO.

My house and garage is wired with Cat5e and its faster than my wireless in most places in the house. Works fine with AOL. ;)

But if you limit distant cable runs to 25 feet or less, even the older Cat5 will give over 1Gigabit speeds all day. Most non-fiberoptic customers will only get 12 to 300 Mbps download speed from their Internet Providers, thats much less than 1 Gigabit.

I have Ixfinity at a "UP TO" speed of 400 Mbps. The fastest I have ever gotten was 275 Mbps when everyone in the neighborhood is at work or school. After 5PM it gets knocked down to 150 Mbps.