Is it better to have a longer Ethrenet cable or phone cable??

balt

I would go for langer phone cable, after all it may have travelled severa miles to your house a yards won't make any differance!

Awec

balt wrote: »

I would go for langer phone cable, after all it may have travelled severa miles to your house a yards won't make any differance!

Nope. Longer ethernet every day.

Phone cable is rubbish cabling. You want as little of it as you can, as phone cable can cause problems with your ADSL connection quality.

Millionaire

Ethernet all the way. Extension phone cables can sometimes be very problematic with connection and speed over longer lengths.

totalsolutions

Sorry balt, You're fired!

weegie.geek

balt wrote: »

I would go for langer phone cable, after all it may have travelled severa miles to your house a yards won't make any differance!

Have you seen the thickness and shielding on the cable between the street cabinet (or exchange) and your house? And have you also seen how thin and crap and unshielded most telephone extensions are? Not to mention interference inside your house.

Or look at it this way. The longer the line, the higher the attenuation. The higher the attenuation, the slower the internet will be. You want the line to be as short as is physically possible.

Conversely, cat5/5e/6 will perform perfectly well at speeds in excess of what your router's capable of, using a long one and won't add to the attenuation at all.

Feel free to do some tests with a long extension between microfilter and master socket, and then tell us it doesn't make a difference.

robt_2

balt wrote: »

I would go for langer phone cable, after all it may have travelled severa miles to your house a yards won't make any differance!

There speaks someone who doesn't know what they are talking about :rotfl::rotfl:

basmic

IIRC, Cat5e cable should travel happily upto 50 meters - beyond that, and the signal starts to deteriorate.

Just run the router as close as you dare to the master phone socket, and ethernet/wireless from then onwards.

kwikbreaks

balt wrote: »

I would go for langer phone cable, after all it may have travelled severa miles to your house a yards won't make any differance!

The problem isn't attenuation it is noise pickup. Most noise pickup comes off the ringwire which works as an antenna. On hard wired extensions you can disconnect it but you can't with a plugin extension. ADSL arrives at your house as a very weak signal and a small amount of noise pickup can reduce your sync significantly.

Ethernet is all local so the signal level is high(ish) and pretty much immune to noise pickup.

weegie.geek

kwikbreaks wrote: »

The problem isn't attenuation it is noise pickup. Most noise pickup comes off the ringwire which works as an antenna. On hard wired extensions you can disconnect it but you can't with a plugin extension. ADSL arrives at your house as a very weak signal and a small amount of noise pickup can reduce your sync significantly.

Ethernet is all local so the signal level is high(ish) and pretty much immune to noise pickup.

Noise and attenuation. Telephone extensions aren't known for being low loss.

Zoom7000

Another vote for longer Ethernet cable. Always (where possible) plug your router directly into the Master socket and use longer Ethernet cables for connecting equipment.