Network setup for 2 buidlings with 2 dsl connections

If these buildings are not on the same electrical system and bonded then I would highly recommend running fiber between them instead of any copper. It doesn't cost all that much and gives you a fully reliable 100Mb or 1Gb connection without any surge concerns.
Fiber is great, reliable, safe - but costly to terminate and for the switches capable of putting fiber modules in (although fiber transceivers aren't horribly expensive). That said, I use fiber when copper doesn't reach - otherwise I've always had copper between buildings with no issues. I've done conduit between 3 buildings roughly 500ft apart with 2x 100-pair cat3, 4 Cat5E's, 12-strands fiber, a couple security wires, and coax... never had surge issues. Is this a particular phenomenon you're referencing?

Also there are simple Cat5 surge protectors; and this is a very short hop.
 
Fiber is great, reliable, safe - but costly to terminate and for the switches capable of putting fiber modules in (although fiber transceivers aren't horribly expensive). That said, I use fiber when copper doesn't reach - otherwise I've always had copper between buildings with no issues. I've done conduit between 3 buildings roughly 500ft apart with 2x 100-pair cat3, 4 Cat5E's, 12-strands fiber, a couple security wires, and coax... never had surge issues. Is this a particular phenomenon you're referencing?

Also there are simple Cat5 surge protectors; and this is a very short hop.

Not true about terminating. If you have them fusion spliced it is, but you can get DIY mechanical splices that go on as easy as an "F" connector on coax. Any decent switch has SFP ports in it, usually 2 if you have a 24 port or 1 on a 12 port and you can buy the SFP's on ebay cheap enough.

Consider yourself very lucky that you never had any problems. Anytime you put copper between building by code you need suppressors on both ends. Just because it hasn't happens doesn't mean it won't!
 
Less than $200 with 100Mb transceivers and terminated cables. Even if you surge protect the two buildings there will always be a potential between them. Unless, which was never clarified (unless I missed it), these buildings share the same power and are bonded then copper is an option.
 
Thanks everyone, Dan's solution seems the simplest to implement. Though I think I'll run some extra cat5e when I run the conduit.

Linuxha, Yeah I don't think wireless would be the best option here, I just prefer hardwired whenever possible for simplicity and security. In a rural area, only 1 ISP so dsl is the only option outside of hughesnet which I would never want to use.

Wireless-N network can be as fast as wire. You can also setup wireless security, so that both end points only talk to the MAC address of the other end. That is very secure.
 
You can also setup wireless security, so that both end points only talk to the MAC address of the other end. That is very secure.
Hate to burst your bubble, but MAC filtering is the most pointless attempt at security there is... it's about on par with hiding your SSID - also completely pointless. Both create so many hassles for you, the one trying to connect - and don't even present a roadblock for anyone with malicious intent.
 
Hate to burst your bubble, but MAC filtering is the most pointless attempt at security there is... it's about on par with hiding your SSID - also completely pointless. Both create so many hassles for you, the one trying to connect - and don't even present a roadblock for anyone with malicious intent.
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