Home Network Wiring Without Master Socket

[bremen1874]

You don't need to filter the connection that's going to the modem/router. For that you just want a single pair that connects as cleanly as possible back to the incoming line.

Any phones that are plugged in do need to be filtered.

A line filter that only has a modem/router connected to it serves no purpose at all.

 

[Jengo]

You don't need to filter the connection that's going to the modem/router. For that you just wan't a single pair that connects as cleanly as possible back to the incoming line.

Any phones that are plugged in do need to be filtered.

A line filter that only has a modem/router connected to it serves no purpose at all.

Yeah i get that, i'll probably pick up a single RJ11/ADSL socket to wire into straight through line in the 2nd bedroom? any recommendation on where to get one?

I'll just use the new filtered faceplate temporally to test it all works as intended.

Edit: Im guessing something like this? - https://www.run-it-direct.co.uk/RJ11socket.html, then run an Rj11 to Rj11 from the socket to the hub's new home in the cupboard?

 

[Jengo]

Hi All,

Stage one is complete!

New RJ45 socket installed in the 2nd bedroom and a line run from that through the wall to the cupboard where the router is now located - http://i.imgur.com/IIg3Foc.jpg
http://imgur.com/1LzOfD5
http://imgur.com/Po1ryGh

Also ran a temporary 2nd line back from the router to my PC until i can run lines out of the cupboard into the roof then to the living room and down to the PC a bit more neatly! http://imgur.com/qb2igHc

Powerline adaptor is also only temporary in the cupboard to run the PS4 and TV in the living room until i run hard line to there as well. Also need to sort out some better power sockets in the cupboard!

Also all trunked around in the 2nd bedroom to keep the misses happy obviously...

Discovered i hate crimping RJ45 plugs, but punching down sockets is a doddle!

Thanks for all the help to everyone who posted. For sure ill be back when i start to build my little network panel/rack in the cupboard, but its all looking and running a million times better than it was when i started!

 

[bremen1874]

Imgur provide 'BBCode' links you can cut-and-paste to display your images directly in the thread. Far easier for everyone that having to follow multiple links.

If the images are a bit big wrap a spoiler tag around them.

 

[thenewoc]

Good to see it worked out, looks neater than running it up the side of the stairs.

That downstairs extension seems a bit of a dogs dinner, you don't need 2 cables connected to the external master. Cutting down on connections should give you a better set up. Maybe the builders put a 2nd cable in as a fall back in case one got damaged during the build. If one of the cables coming in from the external master is connected to the 2 & 5 then the rest of the extensions should fit to the F2 & F5. Meaning you should be able to do away with intermediate joins that are currently going on with those screw down connector blocks. You'd also connect the upstairs extension to the 2 & 5 connections as that is unfiltered for the extension feeding the modem connection.

Maybe that new downstairs faceplate isn't intended as a master socket replacement though. What I would have done is put a regular NTE5 master socket in the downstairs hall as that would have had an A & B connection to receive the connection from the cable coming into the property along with a vdsl faceplate that fits over the top which has an unfiltered connection for the modem extension and the bottom removable section of the NTE5 has connections for other voice extensions. Alternatively, you could use the new all in one BT Openreach MK4 VDSL/NTE5C Combined Unit.