[Shop-talk] More internet questions

[Dave Cavanaugh]

We're moving into an old, 850 square foot house on the Utah property 
where we'll be building our new home.  The house was originally built in 
the 1880s and has been remodeled, or at least modified, a number of 
times.  The phone wiring looks like it was installed by drunken 
chimpanzees.

I met the guy from CenturyLink at the house last week and he hooked up 
one line from the service entrance to the master bedroom.  That is the 
only live phone outlet in the house at this point, although there are 
numerous dead outlets and wires snaking around the walls, all of which 
will get yarded out.  The DSL router is sitting on the bedroom window 
sill, and the only phone in the house is connected to the router and 
likewise sitting on the window sill.  We will probably be in this house 
about a year, so this setup is sub optimal.  The good news is I'm 
getting 12 MPS download speed (according to the tech on his hand held 
device) and 10+ MPS on my wifi laptop and phone.  This is much better 
than the 1.2 MPS I'm getting on my current setup in Washington.

I eventually need to get a hardwired ethernet connection to my desktop 
computer when we get moved in, and the desktop needs to be in the other 
bedroom about 25 feet away.  I would also like to get the router out of 
the master bedroom and into the office.  However, I have been doing some 
reading and it looks like if I extend a phone line from the master BR to 
the other BR, the signal could degrade over the phone cable before it 
hits the router.  The alternative would be to leave the router in the 
master BR and run an ethernet cable from the back of the router to the 
other BR/office, and then run some phone-only circuits from the jack in 
the bedroom to the kitchen and office, using DSL filters on the lines.  
It also looks like there is a lot of disparity in phone cable, so I want 
to get the good stuff, right?

I have a crimper (or two) and have made up phone and data cables with 
modular connections before, with reasonable success.  Any suggestions?

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