wheres a good place to get 100ft of direct burial, solid ethernet cable at?

[SamirD]

^ And I have direct burial coax that's held up fine. There is no reason to expect ethernet to do worse if you have equal quality cable (sheathing).

This whole topic could have literally been, find it on amazon, it gets delivered a day or two later, the same day you rent the cable trencher and spend an hour installing it.

Even if direct burial cable fails eventually, you could lay it 5 times with less manual labor and time spent, but far before that happens, you'd have moved on, to another residence or to a newer network standard.

Do not think you are going to pull a new ethernet (or fiber optic) cable through 150' of conduit to replace the old, unless you use larger conduit which then raises and cost and labor again, even that factor being more burden than stringing a bare burial cable again.

Shortcut, shortcut, shortcut. And then do the job again because you didn't do it right in the first place. This is basically the definition of half-assing anything if I've ever seen it. Might work for you, but don't recommend this to others that won't have your same luck.

 

[skyking]

IF I go from one discrete premise to another, I either:
1: install circuit protection
2: use fiber
If it an outbuilding of the main building and the power comes from the main building too, I don't sweat it so much. Unfortunately every time it has had separate power drop from a different transformer.
That goes for telecom circuits too.
i get the circa bases and the proper fuses
analog example

 

[SamirD]

IF I go from one discrete premise to another, I either:
1: install circuit protection
2: use fiber
If it an outbuilding of the main building and the power comes from the main building too, I don't sweat it so much. Unfortunately every time it has had separate power drop from a different transformer.
That goes for telecom circuits too.
i get the circa bases and the proper fuses
analog example

Nicely done--like a pro. 🙂

 

[VirtualLarry]

RE: Ground potential differential at different ends of ethernet cable:

I think that possibly I friend a 10GbE PCI-E x4 NIC, as well as the onboard NIC, on my main rig, because of this issue.

I've got my NAS units and my "networking cluster", plugged into a power strip, plugged into a non-sine UPS, plugged into my kitchen outlet.

I've got my workstations, and my workstation aggregation switch(s), all plugged into my bedroom + living room circuit.

I now have my main workstation plugged into those switch(es), and then cabled to my networking cluster, but I used to have it (when I had the 10GbE-T card in it) plugged directly into the networking cluster (cable running over a doorway).

 

[skyking]

That's highly unlikely in the same premise. Same transformer. There's no ground differential.
The only difference you get is using the opposite leg of power.