Broadband extension

SandLake

I am moving my PC at home from right beside the BT master socket into one of the bedrooms, any tips on what is the best telephone cable to use, so far I have been pointed in the direction of Cat5 cable. I currently get about 3-5 Mb on an (upto) 8Mb broadband line and I don't want to significantly affect it.

Thanks

superscaper

Cat 5 is an ethernet cable not a telephone cable. For broadband you don't really want to use a long telephone extension, it tends to degrade the signal quite badly. It would be best running a Cat5 cable from modem/router which is directly connected to the phone line (without extension) to your computer or considering setting up wireless.

Rex_Mundi

Cat5 cable is by far the best you can use for this. It will lose less signal, and suffer less interference than just a normal telephone extension cable.

albertross_2

You could always get a wireless router..

Zahc

You could always get a wireless router..

Yep, I had no end of problems with extensions and my wife giving me jip about the cables. Wireless addressed these problems and I can move the PC to anwhere the good lady wife wants it.:beer:

Viz_2

Have you seen these Netgear Powerline broadband extenders ?

They supposed to be very reliable.

http://www.netgear.com/Products/BridgesAccessPointsandExtenders/PowerlineWallPluggedExtenders.aspx