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Networking to a garden shed

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Hi,

My neighbour has just built a garden shed and wishes to setup a pc with internet in the shed. My obvious suggestion was wireless however they already have this but do not pick it up down in the shed (approx 30m from the house). Therefore i think the best setup would be to run an ethernet cable from the wireless router to the pc - is this the best way?

I was looking at just buying a 30m crossover cable, will this work?
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http://www.cantenna.com/

http://www.hawkingtech.com/products/productlist.php?CatID=32&FamID=72&ProdID=187

I know someone who got the latter and it did expand it a good 100 feet +. The cantennas are supposed to do a pretty good job as well, but I've never had experience with one of them.

I think that's a much better idea than wired. You shouldn't run CAT5 over 200 feet and there isn't digging or issues of withstanding the weather.
I do well with distance when I point the antenna(s) directly out the window. That might do it as ronmelton said.
Wow, pretty good. My old Linksys B router will go around .2 miles without any addon antennas, but the new Netgear G one only makes.1 miles. Why do I really need it to go that far anyway? Only thing tied in wirelessly is a machine that's only about 60 feet away in another room. It covers the house and 3 acres of lawn with a 3 bar or better signal, and I can go through most of my mountain bike trails catching a weak signal for about 1/2 of the length of them.
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