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I tried a pair once between our house and shed but the distance claims are more than a little optimistic. Our link was maybe 70M by wire length and it would just barely hang together and the throughput was rubbish. I had the same problem with WiFi links using various different bits of gear. Throughput was so patchy that I could not reliably play music from a server in the house and an IP phone system kept falling over.
I put in a conduit between house and shed late last year and temporarily used CAT5 cable which has kept the network going and made it reliable but it is not outdoor rated so eventually it is likely to do something similar with moisture. I plan to replace it with a fibre link, but I have to finish a room build in the house and move our networking rack before I am going to do that.
I am thinking about just using a normal singlemode patch cord to a through connector at both ends, they are cheap as chips and if a mouse eats it or it gets damaged then it is also cheap as chips to replace. And if 10Gig connection speed gains any value it will just be a matter of replacing a $30 format converter at both ends.
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