[Shop-talk] More internet questions

[Peter Murray]

Keep your DSL/phone line run as short as possible. Use CAT5, CAT5E or CAT6
for additional phone runs, and CAT5E or CAT6 for your network cabling
needs. CAT6 can be more difficult to terminate, however. Be sure to use
plenum-rated cables if they're going to be in air feed/return ducts, lest
they kill you at a time when you are experiencing other problems.

Consider giving some network-over-powerline devices a try. I use them here
in a variety of spots where I haven't already run network cable, including
to an outbuilding 250' away from the house. They create a network bridge,
so if you have three remote locations that need ethernet, buy 4. One goes
by your ethernet switch/router, the others go in the desired remote
locations. They work very well.

http://a.co/9fiEz2i

-Peter

On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 9:07 PM, Brian Kemp <bk13 at earthlink.net> wrote:

> I have a 1957 house that had phone jacks all over the place in my current
> house.  Initially the phone company connected the line, but I was only
> getting about 1 MB/s, so we disconnected all jacks except my office area
> and the master bedroom at the rats nest under the house.  The office has
> the modem and the bedroom has the cordless phone base unit.  The signal
> went up to 2.5 MB/s, which is the best I can get in my area unless I go
> with the cable company.
>
> We were doing some renovations and I had to move my desktop computer, so
> needed to activate one of the disconnected phone jacks.  I moved the phone
> base unit temporarily to that jack I wanted to activate and clipped all the
> disconnected green wires together then put the phone on speaker.  I then
> touched the red wires to the connection block one at a time until I heard
> dial tone on the phone.  I then connected that one additional wire pair at
> the junction and the signal stayed good.
>
> Two years later, my wife setup her laptop work area about as far away from
> the wifi router as she could get then complained that the signal was bad.
> I ran a 100' premade Cat 5e cable from the DSL router through a closet into
> the crawlspace and down to the end of the house.  I then made a hole in the
> air duct and ran the network cable out the floor register behind her desk
> and added a new router.  Now she has good signal and I have good signal.
>
> I made the decision not to have that second router under control of the
> DSL router.  That means my computer can't see the wife and kids computers
> and their computers can't see mine.  I consider that to be a good thing.
>
> What I'm getting at is maybe you have an easy way to activate a different
> phone jack for the DSL router and move it where you want it.  You may also
> have an easy way to run a network cable from the modem to your desktop,
> perhaps through a closet up to the attic or down to the basement.
>
> You can use a site like speedtest.net to check your signal before adding
> new wire and after to see if you have any degradation.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Brian
>
>
> On 4/17/2017 12:11 PM, Dave Cavanaugh 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.
>>
>
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