My friend and I have been talking about networking our houses, but we're not quite sure if we can make it work. From one person (a friend who sleeps in his CISCO class) I herd Cat 5 cables lose the majority of their signal after 100 meters (~328 ft.) and from a person who works in the same computer store as me, said they lose most of their signal after about 25ft. I'm pretty sure it'll go more than 25 ft., but does anyone know for sure how long a cable could be before I would need to put in a repeater to maintain a decent network with my neighbor? He measured from his computer room to mine and got 311 ft. I can move the HUB around if we're only off by a little bit, and we can even take a different route with the cable that could considerably shrink the distance, but I would really like to know if I'd need to get a repeater burried in my yard and what not. We also plan on encasing the Cat 5 cable in a hose or PVC pipe or something, so I'm not too horribly worried about line noise, just the distance.