Moving main connection point

[pauLAW]

Hey all

I have moved to a new house and the main socket is on the wall in the living room.
My office will be upstairs so I would prefer to have the router set up in the office. In the spare bedroom we have a sky socket on the wall and a separate white cable that's frayed at the end (telephone cable written on the cable) - could this be used to bring the connection upstairs or is this just to be used on a sky box?

I would like to avoid having to pay BT a load of money if I can work something out myself.

Thanks

 

[pauLAW]

The easiest thing to do is to have your main router setup in your living room and buy some ethernet homeplugs that you can plug in your living room and in your office. If you need any more connections in your office you could buy a switch and use that with the homeplugs.

I do have a homeplug I could use I suppose but it would only take one cable - what switch would you recommend?

Caged - When I ordered this with BT last week they never gave me an option to send out an engineer and set me up, they just advised that they would be sending me the Router and TV box in the post (it should arrive today)