Possible yes.

In reply to a post by lodge:

Basically, I was hoping that I could just get away with plugging one end of the Cat7 cable into the existing main router and then the other end into a bridged router 80m distant in the outbuilding.

Possible?

I believe the first post from jabuzzard gave you the answer to that question and also one of the risks of running ethernet between buildings.

Edited by deleted (Wed 13-Nov-19 09:39:30)

Unfortunately the thread rather became hijacked by others expounding their own projects, so the answer to my original post was not clear from all the unrelated posts.

But thank you for your interest, anyway.

In reply to a post by lodge:

Unfortunately the thread rather became hijacked by others expounding their own projects, so the answer to my original post was not clear from all the unrelated posts.

The answer to your question was clearly given long before I hijacked the thread.

The recommendation by those responding to you said it was possible although suggested a fibre cable would be a better option, my question simply expanded on that point and should have been helpful to both of us. I am sorry if you felt it wasn't and sorry for hijacking your thread.

Don't use Cat7 cable for anything. It is not certified for transmitting ethernet of any description over any distance, and unless you use the specialist connectors (which you wont be) you will make things worse by going from balanced pairs to in effect miniature coax which will be not corretly terminated unless you have those specialist connectors.

Nobody should use anything above Cat6a unless you are doing 40gbps ethernet in a data centre with patch leads (no structured wiring) under 30m then you could in theory use Cat8, but there are currently no products on the market and direct attach and active optic cables are likely much cheaper for many years to come.

In reply to a post by jabuzzard:

Don't use Cat7 cable for anything. It is not certified for transmitting ethernet of any description over any distance

Are you sure of this? Not even under ISO 11801? You might want to check on that

That is not an IEEE 802 ethernet standard and as such my statement stands, Cat7 is not certified for carrying Ethernet of any description by the IEEE Ethernet standards. The ISO can write random standards to their hearts are content, but it is the IEEE standards that govern ethernet. Put another way it was written in the expectaion that the IEEE would use Cat7 for higher ethernet speeds, then they didnt.

Anyone using anything higher than Cat6a is a gulable fool who is actually making things worse because they will not be using the specialist connectors that the higher standard requires.

https://se.rs-online.com/web/generalDisplay.html?id=...

I think you may be getting mixed up between 7 and 7a

Also check out iee802's website as it does show that cat7 is certified