Need help connecting 2 networks between 2 buildings!

[Moondog2010]

Hi,

I am looking to connect my network in my home (guest house) to my friends network in the main house. We plan on running cat6 cable between the 2 buildings.
I am building a media server PC and want to be able to stream the media from it to PC's and TV's in both buildings. I'm sure it takes more than running a cable from
a port on my router to a port on my friends router. Never tried to do this before though... :-) Do we need any other equipment or software etc?

Thanks for any help with this!

Moondog2010

[GroundZero3]

How far of a distance are we talking between the two points?

[Moondog2010]

260 ft. Any outdoor rated cat6 cable suggestions too? Needs to be outdoor rated of course :-) Thanks

[GroundZero3]

What are the two routers you are trying to connect together?

Cat 5/6 cable has a distance of around 330 feet so you are good on that. Pretty much punching down the cable, testing to make sure you did a good punch. On his router you will plug into one of the LAN ports (NOT THE WAN). Turn off DHCP on his router and pretty much he should be get an ip address from your router and be able to get to the internet

[Moondog2010]

I have the newest Cisco Linksys E4200 router. He has a way older Linksys WRT54G? Router. I don't think you Can buy that one new anymore i think :-)

Hoping I can get outdoor rated bulk cat6 cable at Fry's Electronics...

[stroyal]

Home Depot, or Lowes has it, as well as all the other hardware, for a wired network.

[GroundZero3]

You should be able to connect the two devices together with no issues