Just had full fibre installed and I want to run an ethernet cable to a garden room. What type of cab

[Snudge1]

I have just had full fibre broadband installed and I want to run an ethernet cable to a garden room.  What type of cable do I need? Is there a fibre optic ethernet cable or would conventional copper be ok?

[Chrisee]

@Snudge1 standard cat5e or better copper ethernet cable is good for 1Gb/s up to 100m so unless your garden is unusually large you dont need anything like fibre cable😀.

Use external grade cable if you are directly burying it in the ground which is usually Cat6 IIRC.

[TimmyBGood]

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@Snudge1 wrote:

Is there a fibre optic ethernet cable or would conventional copper be ok?

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A 'full fibre' connection becomes ethernet on the other side of the ONT.  While it's certainly possible to link buildings with optical cable, that would require reconverting to optical signalling using a GBIC-capable ethernet switch and then ordering pre-terminated optical fibre of appropriate length, and is almost always completely unnecessary in a domestic setting.

[Snudge1]

Thank you so much. That answers my question perfectly 🙂