BT extension line?

danceMB · 21 Feb 2006 at 01:09

Im moving to a new house in the next week, and have only just discovered that there is only a main line in the living room, and no telephone point in the computer room.

I will be getting broadband setup in the new house, but before I do, is there a way to get some sort of extension line put into the computer room upstairs? BT quoted me £140 to put one in, surely there is a cheaper way?

theredguy · 21 Feb 2006 at 06:48

I only have one phone socket also, my way round it was get a set of 4 wireless phones where only 1 plugs into the phone socket the rest being stand alone satellites and then run a normal shop bought extention upto the computer room. Works a treat for me and i am on 1Mb (fastest i can get due to distance from the exchange) without an problems.

danceMB · 21 Feb 2006 at 08:42

Is there any way to have an extension without having wires running all over the house?

OllyM · 21 Feb 2006 at 11:25

Plug a wireless router in downstairs and put a wireless card in your PC?

theredguy · 21 Feb 2006 at 13:03

/\ What he said because you have to have a cable to make a telephone line extension.

vanandjuanunited · 21 Feb 2006 at 13:04

Definitely wireless. Recently go wi-fi and wont go back to cables in a hurry.

Uhtred · 21 Feb 2006 at 16:52

it's always best to keep the router as close to the master socket anyway to insure the best line quality. EIther use wireless or have a network cable coming from the router downstairs to the comptuer