Burying cat5 cables over 400ft? Any suggestions?

Question

I have about 500ft between two houses and the main house has a router with high-speed DSL, ive tried using wireless but the signal doesnt reach the second house. I was thinking of hooking a cat5 (ethernet cable) to the router and burying it to reach the other house? Wikipedia says cat5 is not very reliable over distances over 400ft, does anyone have any suggestions?

Answer 1

At about 300ft, you start losing signal.

Try a directional antenna. You can build one yourself or buy one. You can make them out of Pringles cans! The directional antenna will allow your wireless to reach further than an omni-directional.

http://www.google.com/search?q=cantenna&...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=...

Answer 2

you would need heavy-shielded cables, possibly a network repeater or extender, and maby some shielded conduit to run the cable in... all of this could be VERY expensive.

Its likely going to be much cheaper to just get a wireless bridging system to get that distance.