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Lord Nikon · 10-02-2011, 16:16

150 yards? That's over the length for a single Cat5 or Cat6 cable. Find a midpoint, use a Cat6 cable from the modem to there, install a router and run cables to both computers from it. That drops a 136m Cable run to 68m runs which are well within the length tolerances for ethernet.
you would need 3 cables, one for the modem to the router, one for the work PC to the router and one for the home PC to the router.

10-02-2011, 16:16	#4
Lord Nikon Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: NW UK Posts: 3,546	Re: Cable modem 150 yards? That's over the length for a single Cat5 or Cat6 cable. Find a midpoint, use a Cat6 cable from the modem to there, install a router and run cables to both computers from it. That drops a 136m Cable run to 68m runs which are well within the length tolerances for ethernet. you would need 3 cables, one for the modem to the router, one for the work PC to the router and one for the home PC to the router.