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I want to move the router to a more central location in the house, as opposed to next to the bt socket on the edge of the house.
I have a cat6 with rj45 on either end of it connecting router to my network switch.
Can anyone recommend what sort of adapter I need on either end of it? To connect a very new BT wall socket (without seperate microfilter) to a cat6 cable?
Thanks
Is this for ADSL, or VDSL "fibre"?
I just made up a cable. It depends what sort of BT socket you have as well, mine has the DSL splitter built in and if you take the faceplate off there are a pair of connectors in there for the high frequency side to go to the router. That needs to go down a twisted pair to get any kind of distance.
In my case I only wanted to go a couple of meters the other side of an internal wall, so I chopped one end off an RJ11 cable to wire directly into the BT socket inside the faceplace with the other side through the wall and into the router.
In the last house I swapped all the phone wiring for cat 5 and was only on DSL, but the run from hallway to upstairs was still enough to drop me something like 3Mb/s to 2Mb/s. You want a short a run of cable as possible.
Careful as well if you buy an off the shelf rj11 to rj45 adapter that it isn't a "balun" type for a phone, I can't imagine what mess a transformer would make of a dsl signal.
For the BT socket side, a modern faceplate with built in filter will take an RJ45 cable. Makes it stick out a bit more but would be simple on one side at least. Neither of the bundled EE routers we've had accept RJ45 on their end so just stuck to an RJ11 cable.
Open it up and use a punch tool to push a pair from the RJ45 into the faceplate and repeat at the new location, congratulations you have just ran a phone extension :)
Thanks for the replies guys!
We have Fibre to cabinet then copper to home -I cant remember which Broadband that gives us. Speeds of round 30mb when it is working.
We have had extensive issues with our broadband for the last several months so I am hoping to avoid any 'hard wiring' changes - such as wiring the CAT6 straight into the BT wall box. There is every chance we will have a Bt Engineer out again some time, and i'd hate to see him blame my wiring for all the issues.
The CAT6 cabling is good quality stuff, solid copper - not CCA.
I am most keen on trying to find a plug&play adapter to convert between the wall socket (RJ11??) and the CAT6 RJ45. Just to let me trial it all out, before I consider hard wiring the CAT6 into the BT box.
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Originally Posted by jimbouk
Tried this but the RJ45 is a few mm too wide for the port on the Box - thanks though! The BT Box is a MK5 new one - they replaced it about 6 months ago.
edit: I am going to try with twoof these:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01MZFN6...a-592539330604
and then use 2 CAT6 female to CAT6 Female to extend it all, see if that works?
Odd. I got a new (5C) faceplate installed with a single BT socket, and bought the front part separately. Image with a standard CAT5 cable bundled with a router:Quote:
Originally Posted by Andeh13
https://forums.hexus.net/members/jim...-faceplate.jpg
aaah, thank you :D I have the exact same wall box, and looking at it closely I do see extra room alongside the BT cable. Due to running line tests I am unable to unplug my router currently, and I only tested a Rj45 with a sort of manual splitter.
That looks like it would solve that end, but how do I plug the other end of the CAT6 into the router? How have you managed to work that?
Thank you :)
I'm guessing a more expensive router might have an RJ45 compatible socket? I was too cheap to use anything other than the bundled ones :telephone: If you're planning on putting a RJ45 socket near the router then a short 'adaptor' cable like you linked to would probably do the trick. My original plan was to be able to move the router out from under the bed but things got complicated enough drilling holes...Quote:
Originally Posted by Andeh13