Networking question - new build

darkcloudi

I'm hoping someone will able to advise on this network issue.

I am buying a new build and they fit a telephone line to the living room, looking at the plans there is one cable to the living space and one to the hall. They have advised its CAT 6 so think it will have a Ethernet port and a telephone socket on the faceplate.

What I want to do which doesn't appear Taylor Wimpey (TW) can, is have an ethernet port downstairs where I can feed a connection from my router into and then this ethernet port downstairs feeds into my study to get internet upstairs.

Question I have is if TW fits an extra telephone line into my study using CAT 6 (hopefully - will be asking and finding how many pairs the cable is i.e. 3 or 4 pair) as a slave from the master, whether I can split this after. So in the living fit a 2 port ethernet plate and the 2nd port can feed the internet upstairs. I will then change the face plate in the study to a single ethernet port. (the telephone line would be a waste I guess but it will give me my internet)

The reason for the above is currently the build will have a BT connection but thinking if I wanted to put Virgin Media in the future I want to get the internet upstairs with this method with Virgin Media feeding the living room and then I can feed the study from downstairs using this port I changed (note will have a hub/router upstairs to feed my other devices). I want as much cabling hidden now hence was wondering if this made sense.

System

You're the customer, tell them what you want doing. Alternatively its not that complicated to get a company that does network installs to run a cable through the wall after you've bought the house. Personally that's what I'd do and get them to run additional cabling to put a decent wireless access point such as an Ubiquity one on the 1st floor ceiling.

that

every device needs its own separate cable.

These cables are not daisy chained but come from a switch

The one in the hallway will probably be there for you BT/ISP. The other I wold guess goes from the hallway to the TV or study/office

A telephone line is not normally cat5 or any cat cable

You cant split cat cables. Although they are twisted pairs, they must remain so.

you can conver a network socket to a phone port with the use of a special plug/socket think. To mr these look horrible, but great for offices

Put double port cat cables and sockets in each room. Think about the tv: 1 nic for the tv, 1 for the video box, 1 for the games console and 1 for the computer???

the camera below uses the switch built into the router. but does not have to. This router switch connects to a second switch

darkcloudi

Thanks both, I have tried asking Taylor Wimpey (TW) to add the networking but as its not in the brochure I cannot add it as an option. They were going to charge £2500 for one of these home hubs: https://www.homehubinstallations.co.uk/ this would get a network port in each room and have a similar topology to the diagram above, but for what I want it for its a bit excessive. Also the sales team was a bit poor, wouldn't get back to me in regards to a demo, so didn't want to run the risk with bad after sales.

I think I will get quotes after and see what it will cost, I did want to get a Ubiquity access point, but as TW already find a single ethernet into one room difficult, getting them to do anything extra in the networking side of things is going to prove impossible.

@that - Thanks didn't realise the phone cable isn't daisy chained, so that option goes.