Simple ? DSL question

[lakelover]

I have DSL that's working fine. I want to move my computer & modem to another room.

There is cat5e cable coming from outside the house in to my wall phone socket, but it has a regular telephone size output socket, into which are plugged my modem and telephone. The easiest way to move the computer would be to plug into that socket and extend to the new room. I would need to add a length of about 25-30' to get to the new location.

Is it OK to do that using phone cord, and would that degrade my DSL speed? Or is it necessary to extend the cat5e to the new location?

 

[rbh]

Re: Simple ? DSL question

The cable from the telco is not even cat 5 (barely meets cat 3).
It takes 2 wires (tip and ring) to run a phone or a DSL modem.
Most new cables have - white blue, white orange, white green and white brown as your 4 pair cable
Old cables had red/green and yellow/black as the colour code.

 

[Fishing Dude too]

Re: Simple ? DSL question

Buy a wireless modem, and install a stick on your computer.

 

[lakelover]

Re: Simple ? DSL question

The cable from the telco is not even cat 5 (barely meets cat 3).
It takes 2 wires (tip and ring) to run a phone or a DSL modem.
Most new cables have - white blue, white orange, white green and white brown as your 4 pair cable
Old cables had red/green and yellow/black as the colour code.

I don't know much of anything about this stuff. The markings on the cable shield say "cat 5e general cable....4 pr 24 AWG". Inside the wall jack, only 4 of the 8 wires are hooked up to red/green yellow/black connections of the jack unit. So it looks like this cable was used as a regular 4-wire connection from the box ont he outside of the house, into the basement & up thru the floor to the jack.

So would it make any difference if I ran that 25-30 feet of phone wire to change the location?

 

[lakelover]

Re: Simple ? DSL question

Buy a wireless modem, and install a stick on your computer.

Not sure what you mean by a "stick". It has two antenna-type things on the back of the computer and the modem we have is wireless (Westell 7500). My son uses his wireless laptop in the other end of the house.

Do I have something I don't know I have? It wouldn't surprise me.

 

[r.j.dawg]

Re: Simple ? DSL question

I don't know much of anything about this stuff. The markings on the cable shield say "cat 5e general cable....4 pr 24 AWG". Inside the wall jack, only 4 of the 8 wires are hooked up to red/green yellow/black connections of the jack unit. So it looks like this cable was used as a regular 4-wire connection from the box ont he outside of the house, into the basement & up thru the floor to the jack.

So would it make any difference if I ran that 25-30 feet of phone wire to change the location?

Phone line (RJ-11) is only recommended for about 15ft. Is is possible to leave the modem where it is and fun cat5 to the computer? If not, I would go with what Fishing Dude said, wireless.

 

[lakelover]

Re: Simple ? DSL question

I guess I could do that, run cat5 from the modem where it is, to the computer's new location. I just thought it would be easier to not have to run room to room if I had problems and had to mess with the modem.

I checked my computer specs and it says I have a Dell Wireless 1502 WLAN mini-card....

Will wireless be as fast as hard-wired with 5e to the computer?

 

[r.j.dawg]

Re: Simple ? DSL question

I guess I could do that, run cat5 from the modem where it is, to the computer's new location. I just thought it would be easier to not have to run room to room if I had problems and had to mess with the modem.

I checked my computer specs and it says I have a Dell Wireless 1502 WLAN mini-card....

Will wireless be as fast as hard-wired with 5e to the computer?

Looks like you are already equipped for wireless. Hard wired is the preferred connection. However, the average user won't notice any lag by using WiFi. I use it at home and we watch online movies and TV shows all the time with zero lag.

 

[rbh]

Re: Simple ? DSL question

I don't know much of anything about this stuff. The markings on the cable shield say "cat 5e general cable....4 pr 24 AWG". Inside the wall jack, only 4 of the 8 wires are hooked up to red/green yellow/black connections of the jack unit. So it looks like this cable was used as a regular 4-wire connection from the box ont he outside of the house, into the basement & up thru the floor to the jack.

So would it make any difference if I ran that 25-30 feet of phone wire to change the location?

Yup, you could just hook up the white blue pair (of the new cable) to the terminal (phone jack that has the red/green/white/blue (should be the one with dial tone/DSL) and put another jack on the other end.

Put wire on terminal clock wise between the washers, this pulls the copper in and not pushes it out.

(just get a 4 pin max jack if you can find one (RJ 45???, its been awhile since I did inside wiring )

Hey, it looks like you can go wireless anyways "WOO WHO"

 

[lakelover]

Re: Simple ? DSL question

Hey, it looks like you can go wireless anyways "WOO WHO"

I'll give it s shot tomorrow!

 

[Summer Fun]

Re: Simple ? DSL question

And don't be afraid to use a can of air on your compu tower.

It looks like its dirty with a lot of dust bunnies. .

 

[Fishing Dude too]

Re: Simple ? DSL question

Not sure what you mean by a "stick". It has two antenna-type things on the back of the computer and the modem we have is wireless (Westell 7500). My son uses his wireless laptop in the other end of the house.

Do I have something I don't know I have? It wouldn't surprise me.

Just mmove the computer, we have this set up in 2 houses, when we have 3 computers going is slower when step daughter is doing large downloads, other than that no differance. Just move the computer. The westell is a good router you must have Verizon or Frontier.

 

[lakelover]

Re: Simple ? DSL question

And don't be afraid to use a can of air on your compu tower.

It looks like its dirty with a lot of dust bunnies. .

You should have seen it before I wiped off some dust for the picture!!!

 

[lakelover]

Re: Simple ? DSL question

Just mmove the computer, we have this set up in 2 houses, when we have 3 computers going is slower when step daughter is doing large downloads, other than that no differance. Just move the computer. The westell is a good router you must have Verizon or Frontier.

Yup, Verizon. They gave me this one when our regular one died over a year ago. The tech said "I'm not supposed to do this, but..." & he had one on the truck and gave it to us. I think Verizon has a bad rep for support. I've had more helpful techs than duds. The worst one knocked twice on the door, turned around & left before I could get decent to answer it. The best ones gave me the modem and ran the new wire into the basement from the outside box.

 

[lakelover]

Re: Simple ? DSL question

This computer-boob thanks everybody for their help. I just unplugged the ethernet cable, clicked through a couple things in control panel and I'm in business. Now I only have to move the phone to the new location, and that will be

Glad I asked my questions here!