Can I connect to the internet using a second bt socket?

Rigo84 · 2 May 2013 at 23:36

Hi,

I have just bought a new pc & set it up upstairs in a room where there is a second bt phone socket in the room. I was wondering if I can make a wired connection to the second socket to access the internet without the need for anything except a filter and a rj45/rj11 cable?

I prefer a wired connection but if its not possible, I'll just get a wireless adapter to connect with my ISP router, but fingers crossed...

bremen1874 · 2 May 2013 at 23:50

No you can't.

If the router is downstairs then your best three options (in order of preference) are:-

Install a Cat5e network cable.
Use Powerline adapters.
Use wireless.

Rigo84 · 3 May 2013 at 00:07

Damn...

1 isnt an option, I dont know anything about powerline adapters, googling them now, are they actually any good?

Cycrow · 3 May 2013 at 09:30

compared to cabling, no they are not.
but most likly better than wireless

bledd · 3 May 2013 at 12:58

Other option = move your router to that room.

In some cases if the wiring is poor you'll get a slower connection speed.

I do it in my house because the master socket is comically far away.

Rigo84 · 3 May 2013 at 19:33

I'm tempted to move it but its in the front room with the sky box, very tempting though as the sky box only needs a connection to access on demand...

I better do it before the missus gets in...

#Chri5# · 3 May 2013 at 21:11

Potentially you can - HomePlug can go over twisted pair as well as mains, you just need different units

Can't link to the seller directly as I expect they would be a competitor but here's some blurb:

So why would you want to use Homeplug over twisted pair wire as a system for data transmission instead of normal network CAT5 infrastructure?
Well there might not be an existing lan cable run in place but there might, for example, be a telephone wire between the points. Telephone wire is twisted pair wiring and is therefore ideal for this type of technology. Twisted Pair Homeplug can easily be used over telephone wires even if the telephone wires are being used for telephony! Because the Homeplug signals operate at much higher frequencies (in the range 2-68MHz) they can operate down the wire even when it's simultaneously being used for telephone calls: All you need to do is use a simple 'splitter' (much like a normal ADSL splitter) to separate out the telephone signals from the Homeplug signals. In fact the Twisted Pair Homeplug units have a built in splitter for just the reason. There's a port for the telephone connection and then a port which is used to carry both the telephone and Homeplug signals. Simply plug the telephone (or the telephone line) into the filtered port on the Homeplug device and then use the data port for connection to the twisted pair being used for the data transmission