moving a router

bigjonnyauk · 27 Oct 2014 at 19:30

hi guys for several reasons i need to move my router from one room to another but dont want a performance loss if possible im on sky unlimited 20 meg adsl which uses the rj11 at both ends .

i will need about 10m-15m extension i have been told im best with a shielded cable with 4 wire twist but then someone else has said use cat5e and put your own plugs on the end :confused:

any info or which product is best would help

unfortunatley i live in an old building with 3 flats and more than likely old wiring so homeplugs i doubt would be any good before i get 50 replies suggesting homeplugs

bigjonnyauk · 27 Oct 2014 at 20:00

basically i want to hardwire my xbox and also connect my sky box and my smart tv which are not wireless i wanted to hardwire the xbox cuz the kids also have one and also i wanted to cut down on the amount of things like a switch and so on

bigjonnyauk · 27 Oct 2014 at 20:06

yeah i dont use any ports at the minute so i have 4 free also the way the wall plug is means the router sits in between the house phone base and the tv and speaker system which i prosume does not help .

moving it would also give it a nice interference free area

bigjonnyauk · 27 Oct 2014 at 20:16

thanks for that mate but to be honest i dont need to move the box or make a new box as i live in rented accom so the less holes the better lol i have a nice little table for the router so i just need to know the best cable to use which wont drop performance heavily i have a pretty decent connection and line stats as i only live 400 yards from the exchange

bigjonnyauk · 2 Nov 2014 at 23:11

anyone else have any input

at the minute its looking like a 15m adsl cable.

bigjonnyauk · 7 Nov 2014 at 20:43

update

bought a twisted sheilded 15m cat5e but with adsl ends and rigged all up was not hoping for much but was suprised

before ping 27 d/l 18.2 up 1.0

now ping 16 d/l 21.2 up 1.1

bigjonnyauk · 8 Nov 2014 at 10:16

yeah it was a belkin one i purchased although i have encountered a slight problem .

just to get rid of a lot of devices conected to the router or use to be connected but now no longer owned i changed the wireless password but for some reason the router would not do it and it seems to have reverted to a password i used about 2 years ago the only way i could get back into the router was to use the latest password . how strange