Grimroper
Established Member
Hello
In the near future I'm going to start creating my own home Ethernet LAN. Ive been trawling through these forums for a while now and have a good idea of what I want and how to do it.
However ideas mean questions but, rather than ask them all in one go, I thought I would do it one at a time. The reason for this approach is firstly to avoid any confusion on my part, secondly to make sure Ive thought it out as much as practical before I starting drilling holes and buying stuff and finally I have plenty of other things to do before I can get to this.
So having said I want to create my own Ethernet LAN my first question is about wireless!!
My wireless router sits right next to my BT master socket. I replaced the BT socket faceplate a while back with an ADSLNation filtered faceplate so I don't have any of those nasty dangly filters. It has two connections, one for the phone line and the other is a dedicated ADSL RJ11 connection that goes to my router.
I want to move the router to the loft. My searching suggests that if I did that I could get a stronger wifi signal (The higher the better) BUT at the very least it would allow me to locate it more central to the rest of the house, rather than it being at the front and broadcasting across the street.
On the assumption that the above is correct (It is something I will test out using INSSIDER) that means I will need power and a phone line connection.
Ignoring the power, my current plan is this:-
1. Run an Ethernet cable down from the loft to the front room where it will be terminated with a rj45 wallplate (I will actually run more than one but for the purpose of this assume its one)
2. Plug my RJ11 modem cable into the RJ45 wallplate.
3. In the loft I will terminate the other end of the Ethernet cable to a Patch Panel (I will use this for other things that I will no doubt ask about later)
4. Plug one end of another RJ11 modem cable into the RJ45 port on the patch panel and plug the other end into my router
5. Pat myself on the back for being a clever boy as my wireless internet connection is re-established
Can anyone tell me if this would work, or see any problems with it?
Like I say this is the first of main questions, so thanks in advance for your replies and brace yourself for more to come!
Grim
In the near future I'm going to start creating my own home Ethernet LAN. Ive been trawling through these forums for a while now and have a good idea of what I want and how to do it.
However ideas mean questions but, rather than ask them all in one go, I thought I would do it one at a time. The reason for this approach is firstly to avoid any confusion on my part, secondly to make sure Ive thought it out as much as practical before I starting drilling holes and buying stuff and finally I have plenty of other things to do before I can get to this.
So having said I want to create my own Ethernet LAN my first question is about wireless!!
My wireless router sits right next to my BT master socket. I replaced the BT socket faceplate a while back with an ADSLNation filtered faceplate so I don't have any of those nasty dangly filters. It has two connections, one for the phone line and the other is a dedicated ADSL RJ11 connection that goes to my router.
I want to move the router to the loft. My searching suggests that if I did that I could get a stronger wifi signal (The higher the better) BUT at the very least it would allow me to locate it more central to the rest of the house, rather than it being at the front and broadcasting across the street.
On the assumption that the above is correct (It is something I will test out using INSSIDER) that means I will need power and a phone line connection.
Ignoring the power, my current plan is this:-
1. Run an Ethernet cable down from the loft to the front room where it will be terminated with a rj45 wallplate (I will actually run more than one but for the purpose of this assume its one)
2. Plug my RJ11 modem cable into the RJ45 wallplate.
3. In the loft I will terminate the other end of the Ethernet cable to a Patch Panel (I will use this for other things that I will no doubt ask about later)
4. Plug one end of another RJ11 modem cable into the RJ45 port on the patch panel and plug the other end into my router
5. Pat myself on the back for being a clever boy as my wireless internet connection is re-established
Can anyone tell me if this would work, or see any problems with it?
Like I say this is the first of main questions, so thanks in advance for your replies and brace yourself for more to come!
Grim