Hard wiring question.

dannyjo22

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After upgrading to infinity I have decided to ditch my powerline and try to run cable. Now I have the master socket downstairs and 4 extension points wired in from build which if I plug my router into them give me the same stability and speed as the master socket.

Sadly my bedroom/study with my desktop doesn't have an extension socket and that's where I want the router, but the spare room does. I have a filter in the spare room socket and currently the router is in there, it would be quite simple to now run cable in the stud walling into the loft and back down into my study.

My main question is do I just buy the cable that goes from the filter to the hub, the telephone wire looking stuff? Otherwise the hub has to stay in the spare room and I would have to run one ethernet cable which would then go to my pc and not all the other devices which would benefit from a wired connection.

Is this ok or is there a better way?

Thanks :)
 
Yeah I feared that would be the case, which would mean I gained little. As my router would be in the spare room, one ethernet cable would run into the loft and back down to my pc leaving all other devices (consoles etc) on wireless.
 
If you run an Ethernet cable from the telephone point to your office you have two options.

You can try using it as a telephone extension cable and relocate the router to where you want it.

If that doesn't workout then leave the router where it is and use the cable for Ethernet. If you need additional network points connect a switch to the end of the cable.
 
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You can either run multiple cables or buy a switch and put that at the end of the cable, which will give you 4 or 7 extra ports (if you buy a 5 or 8 port switch)
 
Thanks, is there any disadvantage to using a switch?

So running the ethernet cable from the telephone extension port....

Filter would be plugged into socket. Then from the socket to the hub is black flat cable. So how do I run ethernet cable from that filter to another room? Can you buy ethernet cable with the smaller connector to go into the filter adsl socket and then to the back of the hub, instead of the flat phone wire that it currently uses?
 
Avalon said:
Why not just got through the wall? Also buy a gigabit switch and run Router > Switch > PC/Consoles.
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Because if possible I'd rather have the router out of the spare room as I would then get better wifi coverage through the other parts of the house. If I have to leave it in there and run the ethernet out the hub, then so be it. :)
 
No no, this is what I meant...

Wall port into router, ethernet cable between router and switch, no disadvantage to using a switch, buy a gigabit one.

Ideally you want the router connected to the master socket, but you don't have to do this..
 
As long as it's a gigabit connection between the router and switch even if all the ports are used it won't bottleneck your FTTC speed.

Another option is to buy a cable router, turn DHCP off, and stick that on the other end of the ethernet cable. This will provide you with extra ports as well as another wireless access point.
 
Orcvader said:
As long as it's a gigabit connection between the router and switch even if all the ports are used it won't bottleneck your FTTC speed.

Another option is to buy a cable router, turn DHCP off, and stick that on the other end of the ethernet cable. This will provide you with extra ports as well as another wireless access point.
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As long as the connection between the router and the switch is a minimum of 100mbit it really doesn't matter at this stage as the WAN is the limiting factor. Some ISP supplied routers are still 100mbit for the switch ports, however any transfers via devices connected to the switch would be at gigabit, it's only wireless that would be limited to 100mbit as that would still be via the router ports to get to the switch.
 
bledd. said:
No no, this is what I meant...

Wall port into router, ethernet cable between router and switch, no disadvantage to using a switch, buy a gigabit one.

Ideally you want the router connected to the master socket, but you don't have to do this..
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Thanks, I get the same speed on the extension as the master, even with the extensions disconnected. So there is no way then to come from the filter to the hub to enable me to move the hub rooms.

If not I might just put the hub on the master socket downstairs to give me even coverage of wifi and run the ethernet externally to my house and back into my study upstairs and a switch.

Thanks guys :)
 
You can buy long RJ11 leads or crimp your own if you want, but ideally you'd run RJ45 rather than introducing a longer run of RJ11.
 
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Not meaning to hijack the thread but if you have two switches, say one under the stairs with the modem and another in the loft connected by a single cable, would it bottleneck if several ports were being used on the loft switch?
 
Business Man said:
Not meaning to hijack the thread but if you have two switches, say one under the stairs with the modem and another in the loft connected by a single cable, would it bottleneck if several ports were being used on the loft switch?
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In theory yes it could but there isn't much on a home network that could cause this. Maybe a large file transfer over the link but nothing to lose sleep over. If you regularly saturated the connection then you'd be looking at 10Gb (huge overkill with mega expense) or bonding 2 links to give 2x1Gb bandwidth but even then it's really not needed.
 
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