herdfan
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Hurricane, WV | reply to biggbrother
Re: Phone Line Maximum Length?
If you must run a line more than 14', then plug the modem in near the phone jack and run CAT5 line from the modem to the computer/router. You should not run into the CAT5 limits in the house. |
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Loco
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| said by herdfan  :
If you must run a line more than 14', then plug the modem in near the phone jack and run CAT5 line from the modem to the computer/router. You should not run into the CAT5 limits in the house.
Exactly, but i recommend running it off the main phone block where the phone drop enters the residence....like i did.
My NID (phone & cable TV boxes) is on the side of my garage just below my electric meter. What i did was build a little utility closet inside my garage & put my modems, routers & switch in the closet....then i just ran a short cable & phone line right to the NID (the distance : 6 foot run).
Once that was done, i just ran all my CAT5 lines from the routers location to all the rooms in my house where our 6 pc's are located. I did a nice "clean" job by fishing all the walls with "glow rods" & knocked a small hole in the drywall & installed those RJ-45 wallplates. Made up a bunch of patch cables....plugged them into the wallplates & then into the NIC's & i was good to go.
We don't do that Mickey Mouse bullsh!t in this house. It's done right, or it isn't done at all..:+)
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biggbrother
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said by herdfan :
If you must run a line more than 14', then plug the modem in near the phone jack and run CAT5 line from the modem to the computer/router. You should not run into the CAT5 limits in the house.
Hmmm.. I never even considered that. That's what I may do for him.
said by herdfan :
As long as the extension is at least cat-3 twisted pair (Radio Shack sells a 25' cable specifically designated for DSL use) you can run it all over the house without any noticable degredation in DSL performance.
Just in case the first option doesn't fly with him, is a CAT-3 cable sort of like a higher grade phone wire?
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herdfan
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Hurricane, WV
| said by biggbrother :
Just in case the first option doesn't fly with him, is a CAT-3 cable sort of like a higher grade phone wire?
That is correct. CAT 3 can also be used for 10BaseT networking, but it is limited to 10Mbps.
See a chart here. |
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herdfan
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Hurricane, WV
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said by Loco :
. I did a nice "clean" job by fishing all the walls with "glow rods" &
Please forgive my stupidity, but what are "Glow Rods"? |
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Loco
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1 edit | The glow rods that i have are "lime green" in color....i have 4 of them.
You can leave them out in the sunlight so they charge up.
After drilling a hole in the "top plate" of the wall, you run them down between the studs & you can see where they are because they're *glowing* in the wall.
Each glow rod is 4ft in length & they are made of fiberglass....so they can flex.
They each have the little metal screw-on connectors on the tips of them....this way they screw together so they are longer when fishing the walls.
You also attach your coax, phoneline or cat5 cable (whatever you're running) to end of the last glow rod so they pull right through the hole at the bottom of the wall.
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dick white
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Annandale, VA | ya learn something new every day. I wish I had some of those when I was running CAT5 all over my house...
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