Ethernet Cabling to an outbuilding

[Stir98]

Hi,

I'm moving my home office to an outbuilding and need a wired connection as the Wi-Fi would be too slow.

does anyone know if a sky engineer would be able to drill the wall and run the Ethernet cable for me and then drill and terminate it into a local switch in the outbuilding? If so, how would I go about organising this?

[jamesn123]

@Stir98 

No. Sky nor Openreach would do this kind of work.

You'll either need to get a local electrician/telecoms person to do it or do it yourself. 

[TimmyBGood]

@Stir98 

No domestic ISP would have their personnel carry out such work: it's just not in their remit.

Some business solution providers who also own an ISP division (such as BT) would happily charge a very large amount for their 'network installation services'.

[Derek+Lester · Accepted solution]

You can buy ethernet extension leads with a pre installed socket to plug into an existing ethernet socket online in various lengths. Simple enough to install yourself.

[Chrisee]

@Stir98 if installing in an out building use external quality cable unless there is a duct of some sort as standard ethernet cable wont last too long if outside. In most areas you will find a local outfit able to do this properly with a temination in a wall socket at each end but beware of electricians as many dont understand the first thing about networking.