dstig1
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300ft is the limit for Cat5 & Cat6. Plus, an electrical surge (lightning strike) will follow the copper & fry anything connected to it. Wireless bridges can get tricky sometimes.
If possible, run fiber in electrical conduit underground. (Fiber will melt if hit by lightning.) Can't have a better connection than that.
I ran fiber between our house and shop, but for a very good reason. The shop was built first and all utilities are terminated there, and then go to the house, where the primary need is. I was also thinking about security cameras, too, so bandwidth could be large. It is over 300'. I had a cat5 running the link for a while, but I could tell it was pushing it (slower than it should have been). I had the cable co pull and connect the fiber as it requires special (and expensive) tools and expertise. I think it ran $700 or so for fiber, pulling it, and terminating the connections. Money well spent. Conduit was ran by me during construction with pull cords in it. Much faster now. Unless you have a BIL who installs fiber for a living, i would not think it would be worth it for the OP's needs.