Question about home network and costs for phone sockets in house

ScarySquirrel

ScarySquirrel

ScarySquirrel

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Hello,

Quick summary of situation is that my Mum is living in a house (rented) which has THREE or FOUR phone lines. Only one is used as a residential line but she works from home and so in here office there are 4 phone sockets. NONE of these carry the residential line so we currently have ethernet cables going out the window to the router downstairs.

She has called BT to find out how much it would be to get one of the 4 sockets in the office carrying the residential line, they said it would be REALLY expensive and not worth it.

She called a local guy who is going to charge £50 to come and look at it tomorrow afternoon. This seems a bit of a joke as I have a feeling it will cost a lot more on top of that to make this happen.

Has anyone got any experience of this, are we looking at £100+ on to of the £50 call out to get the residential line into the office?

If that is the case I am going to invest in some powerline adapters so that we can get her networked upstairs without using wireless. Advantage to this is that I could get an adapter and ditch wireless myself!

Wireless isn't an option for her.

THANKS IN ADVANCE :D
 
do you need the phone only for adsl or calls as well its not clear, homeplug/powerline will only deliver broadband from a router via the mains, if the phones lines complex you may find the mains wiring is too. However its worth a try you should know in 2 minutes if its viable.

For broadband 85mbps units are fine and cheap, 200 av units only if your networking or streaming HD
 
I've just done my dads place.

Roll the carpet back, lift floor board, coat hanger + cable. Took me an hour but got it all sorted. 20metres in total I reckon.

In Ethernet.
 
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