James Nunnerley
Technical User
I have a home office at the bottom of the garden, which is about 20/25 meters from the house. Last summer, I ran a CAT6 external grade cable ( through trunking ( down the garden, and into the office. It's mainly laid along the base of a fence, and there is a small section that runs underground (about 400mm) under the grass.
There are then RJ45 sockets at either end. The house end has a CAT5 cable from the socket into the back of my router, and at the office end, it plugs into a Netgear switch.
When I first installed it all, it seemed the signal wasn't strong enough, so after some research I bought a PoE injector ( and splitter ( This works most of the time.
There are however times where the PoE works, but the TCP connection drops. Does anyone have any advice on what I can do to improve the stability?
There are then RJ45 sockets at either end. The house end has a CAT5 cable from the socket into the back of my router, and at the office end, it plugs into a Netgear switch.
When I first installed it all, it seemed the signal wasn't strong enough, so after some research I bought a PoE injector ( and splitter ( This works most of the time.
There are however times where the PoE works, but the TCP connection drops. Does anyone have any advice on what I can do to improve the stability?