Best option for running ethernet cat 5 or 6 to garden cabin

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I want to extend broadband down to the garden cabin I'm building.

Im thinking I need to run normal cat 5 cable from inside lounge to garage.

Then terminate and run armoured cat 5 cable to garden cabin, which is about 40m away.

Any advice on what I need and how would be much appreciated.

I dont know if I need cat 5 or 6 and can these cables be terminated successfully by a diyer......

Cheers TIA
 
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Well Cat5e will do, Cat6 is better over that distance. Will this be ran alongside a mains cable? If so then definitely Cat6.

Fitting the plugs is simple. Look on eb*y for a fitting kit, I paid a tenner for mine including a cable test. The fitting kit included a few plugs. Just strip the right length of sheath off the cable.
 
Can you get armoured ? Or just put it in condute.
Armoured is available but I'd suggest some sort of conduit and external grade cat 5 or 6, especially if it's buried where the duct will fill with water.

If it's buried, leave a few inches between it and the power service.
 
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Be aware the plugs do not work very well where solid core cat 5 or 6 is used, these cable need to be terminated in an IDC outlet, using the same tool as used by telephone installers.
 
I’ve not had this problem.

I have got away with it mostly, but I have had them fail tests and fail in service. It is not recommended, nor are they intended for use on solid cores. A couple of years ago, splashed out and bought some proper IDC wall outlets to replace all the plugs fitted on solid cores.
 
Be aware the plugs do not work very well where solid core cat 5 or 6 is used, these cable need to be terminated in an IDC outlet, using the same tool as used by telephone installers.
If I had a £1 for every successful plug I've terminated, I guarantee I'll be well and truly in profit after I give £1K to charity for every unsucessful.

Yeah the first few (and I do mean very few) were fiddly but after doing half a dozen they hold no fear, and plugs are a damm sight easier than sockets.
 
I have got away with it mostly, but I have had them fail tests and fail in service. It is not recommended, nor are they intended for use on solid cores. A couple of years ago, splashed out and bought some proper IDC wall outlets to replace all the plugs fitted on solid cores.
If the correct plugs are used, and
If the cable is prepared correctly, and
If the cable is inserted into the plug correctly, and
If the correct crimpers are used, and
If the crimpers are in calibration, and
If the correct pressure is applied, then
The plug will be correctly terminated.

Dont forget these plugs are designed to be installed and left, I think the max number of matings is vanishingly small, in the order of tens not thousands.
If anything my experience is - repeated insertions will damage the sockets spring contacts or the solid conductors before the plug terminations fails.
When they do fail a replacement is fitted in a few seconds anyway.
 
If the correct plugs are used, and
If the cable is prepared correctly, and
If the cable is inserted into the plug correctly, and
If the correct crimpers are used, and
If the crimpers are in calibration, and
If the correct pressure is applied, then
The plug will be correctly terminated.

Dont forget these plugs are designed to be installed and left, I think the max number of matings is vanishingly small, in the order of tens not thousands.
If anything my experience is - repeated insertions will damage the sockets spring contacts or the solid conductors before the plug terminations fails.
When they do fail a replacement is fitted in a few seconds anyway.

You cannot get away from the fact that the plugs are absolutely not designed or recommended to be used on solid cables. Solid cables are designed for a fixed installation, installed with an IDC outlet on the end, then they stay put. Fitted with plugs the cables are expected to allow for some movement. You would not use a solid cored cable on your vacuum cleaner, why expect to get away with a solid cored CAT 5 to your printer or laptop?

None of what you mention above makes a jot of difference. The sharp pins of the plug are intended to pierce the insulation and force their way through the middle of the multiple strands of a flexible cable. Using solid cables in the plugs, means the insulation is pierced, the sharp pin glances past the solid core making a much more tenuous connection than the plug is designed to make. Using miss- matched cable and plugs is hardly a professional way to do any job.

If you were daft enough to install solid with plugs here, you would find yourself either not getting paid, or invited to return and do the job properly.
 
I know telephone cables are stranded (between phone and wall socket) using wiered cable, but don’t think I have seen a stranded network cable though. What colour wires do they have inside ?

Do you have a link to some?
 
I know telephone cables are stranded (between phone and wall socket) using wiered cable, but don’t think I have seen a stranded network cable though. What colour wires do they have inside ?

Do you have a link to some?

I think you have found some, but all the what are commonly called 'patch cables' are stranded cores, intended for crimp plugs.
 
plugs are absolutely not designed or recommended to be used on solid cables.

There has been plugs designed for solid conductors for many years...
http://www.l-com.com/content/Article.aspx?Type=N&ID=10592

I agree that you shouldn't use it as a flying lead for something like a laptop, which gets constantly moved, but if it's going into a router/switch at one end and an outlet at the other end, then it's fine.

run normal cat 5 cable from inside lounge to garage. Then terminate and run armoured cat 5 cable to garden cabin,

You don't want this join half way. It'd probably work just fine, but it's not the proper way to do it. Your best bet is twinwall duct or PVC conduit through the garden, with a continuous length of "duct grade" Cat5e. As @SUNRAY says, it will be full of water continuously, no matter how well you think you've sealed the ends. The money saved not using armoured will pretty much pay for the ducting/conduit, which will be a massive bonus in the future when you realise you want a second cable or a coax/phone/etc in the cabin.
 
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