I'm wondering what would be the least-hassle method of getting several long gigabit network cables out of the house to various outbuildings. It's the getting cables out of the house bit that I'm thinking about. Does anyone have experience of the practicalities of this?
The house walls are mostly three to six-foot thick stone (!), but there are a couple of physical options:
(1) there is a lean-to pantry at the back of the house which does offer much less of a physical barrier. This has the cat door in it currently, single blockwork plus an exit route where washing machine pipework goes out.
(2) less promising, we also have a wooden porch at the front of the house too that might be a route out, although getting into the porch in the first place would be a hassle, as this means getting through a block wall to being with and space for a route is likely to be very tight.
(3)There are possible routes out over the top of the original walls at the roof line under the edge of the tiles - fairly non-existent eaves. The house was originally single storey, and would have been thatched. The phone lines come into the house into an upstairs office roughly in this general area, more precisely, penetrating a very large dormer under some cladding, at a point above the old original roofline, just by the side of one large window.
I imagine that I would run blue polyethylene water-pipe out and put several cables inside that. Distance 50m or so, very roughly, would have to allow for various ups and downs, but should certainly be less than 100m. Don't know whether to run CAT7 copper or fibre.
The first application would be a distribution system to various WAPs, but I am thinking about possibly moving some small servers out of the house, so in that case very high bandwidth is essential because these servers would then be basically in completely the wrong place.
I have done line-of-sight 5GHz 802.11n before, which worked fine, but it was slow (probably much less than 150 Mbps). This time I would like to conserve 5 GHz spectrum space and not waste it on point-to-point type wireless distribution links.