quick cable question

AHarvey · 30 Mar 2011 at 22:42

Hi,

Phone line comes in at the front bottom right side of the house, having to set the PC's up in the upstairs back left bedroom.

Would just using a normal phone line extender from downstairs to the office effect the speeds?

I can't set the router up in the hall and run a cat 5 as there is no power there

PhillyDee · 30 Mar 2011 at 23:40

Yes it can. If you can, make the phone line extension yourself out of cat5, its thicker and better quality than off the shelf phone extensions.

matthab · 31 Mar 2011 at 00:11

it can affect the speed due to low quality connectors and the long distance.

You can get Powerplug routers which send the connection back down the power plugs.

23JMZ07 · 31 Mar 2011 at 00:42

Dont bother with homeplugs..

As above, run some GOOD quality telephone extension preferably self made and keep the distance as short as possible. Dont buy them crap extensions.

postmanfw · 31 Mar 2011 at 01:28

Can be hit and miss in my experience.

Best to get a 10m or longer adsl cable and run that to the router upstairs.
(10m is the max recommended but you can get away with longer)

KIA · 31 Mar 2011 at 13:59

PhillyDee said:
Yes it can. If you can, make the phone line extension yourself out of cat5, its thicker and better quality than off the shelf phone extensions.

This.