WQuiles made me do this ... new tool installation

[precisionworks]

This may not look like much as only three feet of 1" plastic electrical conduit is visible BUT it contains a pair of CAT5E cables plus a telephone/fax cable. Shown before boring through the wall into the house ... at least we didn't step on the plants.

Trench is over 100' long and 6" deep, just enough to bury the conduit. Dug by hand (not my hands but still a bunch of work for my helper shown in image). Should be almost invisible in a month or two & that keeps peace in the family.

Riser at the shop before boring through the wall. Siding needs a bit of repair but my wife is working 40+ hours a week & is having trouble scheduling this in addition to cooking, cleaning, etc.

Speedtest.net shows 21Mb down & 1.3Mb up on the Asus TF700T 10" tablet, not bad for wi-fi. Before installing the router in the shop the speed was 5 down & 1 up so it is now 4X faster. The tablet is a huge help showing customers images of proposed work. FWIW the iPhone5 is running 18/1 in the shop :)

Cost of materials $100
Cost for labor $120
New router $85
Tech support for my computer guru to set up networking ... still waiting on that bill.

Fast broadband wi-fi in the shop ... priceless:nana:

 

[StrikerDown]

WQuiles made me do this ...


Turnabout's fair play! :D :lolsign: :crackup:

 

[gadget_lover]

Good for you. Wiring an outbuilding for net, phone and power makes it complete. It is a VERY good idea to put in markers to remind you where you buried that AND how deep. Don't ask me how I know. Some day you will want to find it again without poking holes in the lawn.

BTW, next time it's a good idea to bury the conduit an inch or two deeper than the tines a rototiller. A rototiller eats plastic conduit. So does a trencher for laying sprinkler pipe. Again, don't ask. :)

In our area phone wires (from the curb to the house) are buried 15 inches down and power another 6 to 8 inches lower than that.



Daniel

 

[HotWire]

In my area buried wires must be 12" or more. Great job! The grass will grow back and you'll be clicking away soon. The cost of wired networking should be minimal.

 

[precisionworks]

Thanks guys :)

I'm happy that the conduit is below grass level ... the yard is filled with exposed tree roots & assorted obstacles that make digging a pain.

it's a good idea to bury the conduit an inch or two deeper than the tines a rototiller. A rototiller eats plastic conduit. So does a trencher for laying sprinkler pipe.

In the 11 years since we moved in there's never been a rototiller anywhere but the garden. Sprinkler pipe - isn't that the overhead stuff for fire suppression?:nana:

In parts of Southern Illinois one either grows weeds (our yard) or they bring in a dozen big dump loads of good topsoil & attempt to grow grass. Population here is 5000 plus or minus & there are at least 5 nice lawns that I've seen. Ours is obviously not among them :)

 

[will]

I did the same thing a few years back. This was from the house to the detached garage. Because I am a bit of a nut at times, I buried 2 plastic conduits. The additional cost for the second was minimal, considering the time and effort required to re-dig to put in a second line....

 

[precisionworks]

That's An excellent idea.

 

[BVH]

If you're thinking of installing a 1" conduit underground, then install two, 2" conduits instead! Others may laugh but you'll thank yourself. And no "els", only sweeps.

 

[precisionworks]

The 1" plastic conduit also uses sweeps. With all the conduit buried the cable bundle is still easy to pull one way or the other :)

 

[wquiles]

Payback is so sweeeetttt :devil:

 

[PEU]

Good solution where wifi bridges/repeaters do not work.

About a month ago I helped a friend with a 3 floors home, homes here are brick&mortar, he had the broadband connection on the 2nd floor with a nice router, but on the ground the signal was weak or nonexistent.
He even shown me other routers he bought to mitigate the problem without success, one of them was a linksys wrt54, I said to him, please give me that router I will return with a solution in a week or so.

Installed DD-WRT firmware on it and configured it as a repeater. Tested it at home and worked and then I installed it at his home on the 1st floor, after reconfiguring he now has two wifi signals, and wifi coverage all over his home.

He promised me to bring bottled habanero pepper sauce from his usual trips to Mexico :D priceless!!


Pablo

 

[will]

one of them was a linksys wrt54, I said to him, please give me that router I will return with a solution in a week or so.

Installed DD-WRT firmware on it and configured it as a repeater.

Pablo

I had one of those Linksys routers - it could start out at 54 meg, right next to the laptop. Sometimes it would run at 54 meg for hours, other times it would start to drop down to 2 meg within a few minutes. I did some research and found that there were non-linksys fixes to the firmware. I did not want to get involved with that. I bought a Belkin router and have not had any problems. Here in Florida I use a Net Gear router. Also with no problems. Both run a constant 54 meg..

It is good that you were able to get the router to work for your friend.....

 

[BVH]

I've had hit and miss experiences with Linksys and D-Link over the years. The house we're in now has a dirt room underneath that ranges from 4' to 6' high throughout so it was easy to run hard-wire Ethernet throughout the house. How wonderful it is! I also use a Netgear router for Ethernet distribution and it has 2-band wireless that I can turn on and off as desired with a push button switch on the back of the router. I turn it on when guests are here for their use.

 

[PEU]

I dont recall when i bougth mine, at least 6 years, upgraded them to dd-wrt from day one and Im still happy today, at home it serves two streaming movies simultaneously without a hitch.

At my office it works great too. And I configured both of them to stablish a VPN so I can work from home with security.

Grest router the wrt54gl


Pablo

 

[precisionworks]

The router in the house (at the desktop) is an older Netgear 2000. New router in the shop is a LinkSys EA2700 Dual-Band N600 Router with Gigabit & the Asus tablet runs 21Mbs down anywhere in the shop. iPhone5 is a bit slower at 18Mbs down. It is a huge improvement from the 5Mbs (sometimes less) without the wired router.