My "Home Office" is at the bottom of the garden about 80 feet away. I thought I could get the broadband service into that location using home networking plugs but the speed drop was considerable. There was a telephone extension cable between the two buildings which, like the OP, I wondered if that could be used instead,

Research led me to using Ethernet over VDSL2 Bridge with a pair of VC-201A adaptors from Planet http://www.planet.com.tw/en/product/product.php?id=2...

Top quality Ethernet signal in the shed and over the same pair both a VoIP service and home landline as well. In the shed the VC-201A connects to a cable wireless router.

IMHO opinion this is the right solution for the OP to adopt especially as he has very demanding needs from his network.

They need to ensure this local VDSL2 link stays a long way away from their openreach vDSL2 to avoid cross talk impacting on the incoming connection.

Used SDSL across a field at Glastonbury some ten years ago to get Ethernet back from a stage, but lots more fibre and media converters to piggy back on the video optics now.

It might or might not work.

I have used CW1308 type cable in the past and achieved 100M connectivity of shortish runs. For longer I had to set the switch to work at 10M.

As others have said - try it and see - you might be lucky and when trying it, switch appliances on and off including fridge and central heating.

That's great, thanks all for the comments/suggestions.

I've ordered the faceplates/RJ45 connectors to give this a go so will report back later. Interestingly, I've found a few forum examples from trawling google of 10/100 ethernet working over similar length runs of cat3 (and even gigabit on some short cat3 runs), so maybe there is hope for this!

If not, those VDSL adapters look interesting..., I can see dabs sells a symmetric 100/100 variety which could do the trick assuming they can hold a good sync

Hi all, just thought I'd post an update - I added connectors and faceplates....and it worked! Connected at 100 mbit, can max out my FTTC connection over these extension cables, and all seems stable and working fine! After trying wifi, homeplug and moca in various combinations, it turns out the answer was already in the walls/floors!

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Hi all, just thought I'd post an update - I added connectors and faceplates....and it worked! Connected at 100 mbit, can max out my FTTC connection over these extension cables, and all seems stable and working fine! After trying wifi, homeplug and moca in various combinations, it turns out the answer was already in the walls/floors!

Thanks for the update - you've obviously got very good quality twisted pair telephone extension cabling with apparently no sources of noise affecting the property

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