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corleone Vito

corleone Vito

corleone Vito

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I am assuming yes, but anyway problem my broadband is upstairs - my phone line connection is downstairs which means i have to use a extension lead to go up into my room to connect my broadband and phoneline... will this effect my broadband performance?
if 'yes' How much will it cost to have a phone line socket installed in my upstairs bedroom?
 
yes it will slow it down, and I reckon you'd be looking at probably £115 to move it, and why don't you just run a cat5 cable up to your room?
 
i have decent broadband it JUST SUCKS to pay and loose performance if you know what i mean... and this ****ing telephone socket is pocishioned right near the front door and i have countless arguements with broadband providers about sticking my broadband directly into the telephone line and it IMPOSSIBLE to stick a computer desk near a front door which leads to a stairway and a very narrow passage-way -_- and i had no option put to use an extention cord for the phoneline. But if you are recommending sticking my broadband directly to the phone socket and patching my computer to the router so be it i will do that would you recone ill get better perfomance that way?
 
If you can run cat5e from your router downstairs to your room/ computer that would be the best idea.

30m of cable will not decrease your performance and cat5e can go much further than that without degrading.
 
if you have an extension to your room surely a cat5 cable wouldn't be much harder to do? The closer to the master socket the better routers usually perform, I'd expect a good 2 meg increase in your sync rate by doing this. However, if your broadband is fine then don't worry about it!
 
yup, would be fine. go from router>switch>xbox and pc and whatever else. You could always move router and connect xbox and pc via wireless...but if there;s a cable there, replacing it with another cable would be your best bet in my opinion
 
The answer is that you won't know how much using a phone extension is affecting performance until you try it. Reboot the router and go into the admin pages to look at the line statistics which should show your sync speed. Then plug it in the test socket behind the master socket faceplate and do the same. If the sync speed if significantly better at the master socket then you can decide if it's worth doing anything about.

If you are a couple of km away from the exchange then a few extra metres of extension cabling shouldn't make a significant difference unless there is something wrong. E.g. the extension cable doesn't have the wires as twisted pairs, runs alongside mains cables, poor connections, etc.
 
+1 for above...HOWEVER I've yet to find an extension that significantly ruins sync just because if the thin and cheap cable that gets used most of the time and the fact that 99% of the time people don't spend time making it a decent connection etc. The few times I've had to fix/improve times I have managed a better sync by either moving cable, or spending some time making sure all connections are good...
 
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