[Shop-talk] More internet questions

[Jeff Scarbrough]

If it's like my old house, it's easy to run wires because the walls
are devoid of any insulation...

I'd be tempted to put the modem closest to the phone demarcation box
(where it enters the home system) and run new separate telephone
and/or Cat 6 cable from wherever that is to wherever it needs to be,
allowing for ease of installation, distance from needed points, etc.

And if I was only going to be there a year, I'd do a quick & dirty
job, and put my effort into the new house.

Jeff Scarbrough
Corrosion Acres, Ga.



On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Dave Cavanaugh <cavanadd at frontier.com> wrote:
> 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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