Cat 5e cable run cost

Sounds fair enough if he is supplying materials and labour, but make sure he doesn't just use the cheapest cable he can get from eBay. Some of it is pretty poor. For peace of mind, maybe put two cables in the conduit in case one ever gets damaged, as this should add very little to the cost.

Thanks will do that, good idea.

Sounds too chap to me.

I reckon it wont end up in the ground in conduit.

It will, they have done a run to our office in the garden before, all in plastic conduit.  I just posted this for those putting up with wifi, it need not be that expensive.

Ah so they are using existing conduit.

No this will be new conduit, this is a different route for the cable to the previous cable they installed.

Cable is cheap i would get four runs in there, make sure he gets a service loop in as well.

Gazza posted:

Just for information for the folks. I wanted a Cat5e external grade for running from our router in the back of the house to our front living room, in anticipation of the new Nova. To run around the outside of the house in buried conduit, about 60 feet of cable and terminations, was £138 plus vat from my guy who fits and services our alarm. At that cost I could not be bothered to do myself, others may feel different, but at least it gives an idea of the cost for those thinking about it. Much better than wifi, after buying the expensive boxes etc.

Sounds good... and you can also use for wifi access points in your house... hopefully the message will get through that wifi works best when it doesn't emirate from some cheap ISP wifi router in the corner of the house... a good home network is good strong WLAN complimenting Ethernet... it's not really a case of one or the other..

i am not sure if you have the job completed or quoted... but if you can ask for double Cat5e links (two cables in the ducts)... this allows you to combine/aggregate them for future upgrades to give improved performance ( just leave the second run disconnected until you get supporting switches). I do that here in SinS towers and it helps when the home network get busier ... it also gives a degree of fail safe resilience without a total break.

Thanks Simon, i will get them to do the double run as suggested.