getting a new BT socket fiited...

_Jimlad_ · 9 Jun 2010 at 08:57

Just tried calling to get a quote but hung up after 15 mins grrrrrrrr,

anyone know roughly how much this costs, as my misses socket is by the front door, and im gonna be having a spare room upstairs for my office and need direct access to the router, dont know if an extension cable will cut the mustard

Sp00n · 9 Jun 2010 at 09:05

Leave the router by the front door where you will get the best connection speed due to that likely being the main BT socket, then route a cat5e cable to your office, much cheaper and easier all round.

_Jimlad_ · 9 Jun 2010 at 09:11

Sp00n said:
Leave the router by the front door where you will get the best connection speed due to that likely being the main BT socket, then route a cat5e cable to your office, much cheaper and easier all round.

i did have a little look at doing that, but not sure its that easy to do as she currently has a cable from the phone socket going under the door into her front room, where router and phone sits, there is no real room for a router by the socket as there is no room by the door (tiny house) and no power plug, i presume BT would charge a lot though

Sp00n · 9 Jun 2010 at 09:13

Yes I imagine BT would charge a significant amount more than the cost of running a cable upstairs, by the sounds of it you can just leave the router where it is.

shine · 9 Jun 2010 at 09:16

Last time I enquired BT wanted about £165 to come out and move the socket. So I chose to leave the router by the main BT socket and route cat5 cable to my office.

_Jimlad_ · 9 Jun 2010 at 09:23

wow yeah that sounds to much, i think i will have to start cabling and drilling, what about running a phone extension cable to get the router upstairs? or will i loose net speeds.

another question if you have an extension cable do you have the micro filter thing in the phone socket or at the end of the extension cable?

3dcandy · 9 Jun 2010 at 09:25

I'd leave router where it is and cat5 to where you are going to use your pc. if it's a decent router it will have 4 ports to use!

Sp00n · 9 Jun 2010 at 10:32

_Jimlad_ said:
wow yeah that sounds to much, i think i will have to start cabling and drilling, what about running a phone extension cable to get the router upstairs? or will i loose net speeds.

another question if you have an extension cable do you have the micro filter thing in the phone socket or at the end of the extension cable?

1) yes you will lose interweb speedz.
2) if you do do it, stick the filter on the socket.

_Jimlad_ · 9 Jun 2010 at 11:07

ok well as my other thread states im on the loose loose with internet speeds so cat5 cable it is !

wonko · 9 Jun 2010 at 17:09

If you use proper twisted-pair cable for the phone extension and avoid running it next to mains cables etc. then the loss of "interweb speedz" should be negligible. It would be like having your house about 10m further away from the exchange.