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equipment advice and local installer recommendation
Help? Our residence has a house with about 3,500 sq ft living space and a "carriage house/barn/office" that is about 100 feet to the north from the house and we have a boat pier that is also about 1...
daponder wrote:we do have an existing underground 4 inch conduit (for electric and plumbing) that would apparently allow us to fish ethernet cable through for a hard connection to do this as an option if necessary.
Would prefer to hire a local expert to do the work so we can save the monthly expense of the FIOS system in the barn?
Any local company that installs security systems should be competent to install an ethernet cable. There are code restrictions about placing electrical, plumbing, and communications. I am not confident that both electrical & communications (low voltage) wiring can be placed in the same conduit. In addition to code issues, it is generally not a good practice to have communications wiring close to and parallel to electrical wiring, even for short distances. 100 ft. seems "not a good idea."
Do you have a proposed solution for the pier?
You should not run low voltage communication lines (i.e. ethernet or phone) in the same conduit as power. Electromagnetic interference from the power feeds will mess up the communications signals. If you do not want to run a buried ethernet cable, you may want to look into using a wireless outdoor bridge to be able to reach the 100 foot distance. Search for "wireless outdoor point to point bridge" on Amazon or other retailers.