Need to connect a sub router to loft of house

roytom2

Up until a few weeks ago I had a network cable connection between my loft sub router and the ground floor where the broadband router is located.
The cat 5 cable was attached to the drain pipe of the house and has now stopped working. Therefore, I need to find a new way to get a wired connection to the loft or to go in for one of these powerline network solutions.
I’ve tried to use a wireless extender but the walls are too thick and the house is too tall for these to work giving any type of decent connection speed. Therefore, are the powerline network systems any good? And are they reliable?

thanks in anticipation

TadleyBaggie

I've had mixed results, never got anything like the stated speed.

roytom2

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81880291#Comment_81880291

I feared that the speeds were overstated. I accept the wired connection would be best but the rigmarole of putting this indoors would be incredible.

The TP Link model I could try is the TL-PA7017 AV1000 1xGigabit. This doesn’t include WiFi which I don’t need.

Any views please.

paradigital

Get an inexpensive network cable tester and see if it’s just a pin or two that are no longer working, if so, try cutting off the ends and crimping new RJ45 connectors to the existing cable, failing that just run a new Ethernet cable. I assume there are no joins externally that could have got wet?

roytom2

thanks, but there’s absolutely no joins in the cable and each end is wired directly into a room RJ45 network socket.

victor2

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81880738#Comment_81880738

Can you use the existing cable to pull through a new length of cable then connect the new cable into the sockets? Might need new connectors but they're not expensive.

forgotmyname

I returned my powerline adapters, terrible speeds even when used next to each other on a double socket.

I have no idea how they get their claimed speeds when I only got a tiny fraction of that on a double socket

If you already have a wired connection just feed a new cable along the route of the old one.

Frozen_up_north

Roytom, you mention that the cat 5 cable was attached to the drainpipe, was that outside the house (I guess it was) and was it the common grey cat 5 cable, or the much tougher outdoor grade cable with a black outer?

A friend had all manner of problems that turned out to be using ordinary cat 5 cable outdoors and it had deteriorated, odd as it may seem there is a reason to use the outdoor grade cable, apologies if you already knew that and used it.

MyRealNameToo

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6654891/need-to-connect-a-sub-router-to-loft-of-house

Are you sure it's a router in the loft? Would have thought you mean a switch?

If you have two routers on the same network that itself can cause a host of problems without careful configuration.

You should be able to just pull through a new cable, as others have said make sure it's rated for outdoor use else UV etc will quickly cause it to perish. My experience of power line adapters is very poor so would be the worst case scenario.

roytom2

Thanks, but I’m an expert at configuration of extra routers.

I’ve bought a TP Link power line basic setup (no WiFi) and it’s all working.