Thanks just wanted to make sure before I went to all the trouble to dig. Where's the best place to get Cat5 burial cable.
Dave,
Digging is a lot of work, and direct connections have drawbacks.
My metal walled shop is about 150 feet from the wireless modem located in my house (which has metal lath), I have no trouble picking up the Wi-Fi signal full strength from it, or a half dozen other signals from other houses that are a minimum of 300 feet away.
A friend recently had a lightning strike which rendered his Wi Fi modem and the computer hard wired to it, and the keyboard sound module hard wired to it all junk.
Had he used the wireless option, the computer and sound module would have been fine.
The only thing I have hard wired to the modem is the TV, but I'm not too worried about loosing that in a lightning strike, but computers are a drag to replace even if you have them all backed up.
The guy that had told my friend to hard wire from his modem also had his hard wired computer destroyed by a lightning strike.
Art