Creating a wired network from a secondary phone socket?

toblarone45 · 21 Jul 2009 at 15:46

hey all

Basically we have our main Belkin G+ wireless connected to the primary telephone socket in the living room and have the family pc and this (my desktop in my room) connected using wireless dongles.

I've been doing a lot of online gaming (primarily BF2142) and until now it's been okish (I get "There is a problem with your connection a lot" but I'm now use to it

) butthe only way around it is to run a long ethernet lead through my house to the router which you can guess is really annoying and since i want to play more competitively isn't ideal.

So i was wondering since our spare room (next to mine) has a telephone socket could i purchase just a modem router and create effectively a single computer wired network using the same internet connections? But using a secondary phone socket (i.e not the main one in our living room)? without any issues

Hope this makes some kind of sense.

Thxs
Toby

Caged · 21 Jul 2009 at 17:43

Is it a seperate line or just an extension?

You can't put two ADSL modems on the same line, no.

wij · 21 Jul 2009 at 18:44

Have you thought about trying some of the powerline adapters?

You'd put one near the router, connected to one of its wired ports, and then plug the second one in near your PC and run a bit of ethernet to it.

Not as good as a straight bit of Cat5 but I've generally found it to be a damn sight more reliable than wireless.

stevieg · 21 Jul 2009 at 19:04

would it work to put the belkin in the room beside you and run an ethernet cable from that if you dont want to go down the road of powerlines?

wij · 21 Jul 2009 at 19:11

stevieg said:
would it work to put the belkin in the room beside you and run an ethernet cable from that if you dont want to go down the road of powerlines?

This would also work, though if the extension wiring is not done correctly or is of poor quality you may find that it adversely effects the sync speed you get from the line.

toblarone45 · 22 Jul 2009 at 13:25

Sorry for the delay and thank you for the information.

Basically the spare socket I believe is just and extension of our main one which I'm guessing rules out the second ADSl modem

I hadn't thought about power line adapter however i'll have a look at them brilliant thank you.

With regard to moving the router does it not matter if it's on the primary socket or not then? when we bought it we were told it had to go on the main one because like Wij said the extension could cause issues?