Cat5e outdoor cabling

[dhxr0]

Hi

I'm a student and moving into our new rented house shortly. The router will be downstairs, and I want a wired connection to my room, which is upstairs, where it'll be connected to another router to shield my internal network traffic from my housemates. Wireless is out of the question due to the size of our house and the high speed broadband; I don't want any speed drops.

The easiest way I can think of is to run the ethernet out the window, and down the side of the house, up to my room window, rather than doing it inside. I've ordered a 30M cat5e cable to do this, as I don't want it to be messy inside. Bearing in mind there will be no drilling holes, nailing clips, burying in the walls, etc.

My question is, how long do you think an exposed cat5e cable will last outside? Considering I only paid £3 for it, ordering another one to replace it doesn't present any significant issues. I currently have an outdoor thermometer and this past winter the cable froze and snapped, although it was quite a bit thinner than cat5e.

 

[USAFRet]

Aurum Cables CAT5e 50 ft Outdoor waterproof

More expensive than what you spent, but outdoor rated.

However, your 2nd router concept may not work.

 

[dhxr0]

Aurum Cables CAT5e 50 ft Outdoor waterproof

More expensive than what you spent, but outdoor rated.

However, your 2nd router concept may not work.

Thanks for the link. I've successfully tested the 2 router setup before. Basically the WAN IP of the second router is a LAN IP of the first, issued by DHCP, so all my devices behind that will appear to just have one IP on the first network due to NAT. Imagine the first router is 192.168.1.1 which serves everyone, the WAN IP of my second router could be 192.168.1.2, then the internal DHCP range would be 172.16.0.0-172.16.0.254. As long as the 2 internal ranges are different, there shouldn't be any problems.

 

[Shaun o]

So are you talking about the other router with a different sub net address
To hide your computer from other users of the router it is linked to.

I think that is what you are saying.

 

[dhxr0]

So are you talking about the other router with a different sub net address
To hide your computer from other users of the router it is linked to.

I think that is what you are saying.

Yes, since I have a NAS and other things that I'd like to be behind my own NAT and not accessible to anyone else. I know that internet traffic could still be intercepted and its not a way of securing a network, but I trust my housemates and can use a VPN to encrypt my internet traffic on the first network if I need to.