[simples]

u dirty feckers!!!

Seriously

How long can a Rj11 cable be for broadband before it is deemed you you will start having connection probs. basically need to run one from downstairs master to upstairs router..

[Mani59]

If you get a good quality high speed cable, (check the speed rating), then there should not be any major problems or you noticing any major reduction in speed, whatever the length.

I had a quick look some time ago for someone, and saw that a decent ADSL RJ11 cable had a max length of around 7m.
That might have changed since then.

[ed335d]

Theoretically it could be very long, as regular ADSL is often run over crappy telephone cable over very long distances. If it is a permanent link, run a piece of telephone cable and hardwire it into the back of the master telephone socket. Put a socket on the end of the extension and use the ADSL filter there.

[MEGA]

Mate just get the powered LAN plugs about £60 for two good ones just plug one in downstairs and one upstairs use the existing wiring.

MUCH easier.

Otherwise.. Get Cat 6 and 50 meters should be fine without a booster!

[toxicnerve]

Originally Posted by Raj59

If you get a good quality high speed cable, (check the speed rating), then there should not be any major problems or you noticing any major reduction in speed, whatever the length.

I had a quick look some time ago for someone, and saw that a decent ADSL RJ11 cable had a max length of around 7m.
That might have changed since then.

Sorry mate but what a load of tosh.

The RJ-11 connection is used for the phone connection. It's not "speed-rated" as such.

OP, I assume you're just trying to move your ADSL from where it currently is into a more convenient location? If that is the case then any telephone extension cable as suggested above will do. The extra 10 meters or so that you put onto it will have no affect considering it's probably come 50-100m from the exchange on shitty old twisted pair copper wires

If you're trying to extend the Ethernet side of it then you need an RJ-45 terminated CAT5(E) cable, again this can be pretty long and within a residential setting you have nothing to worry about by just using a long pre-made lead.

If you're trying to do something else, post back with a bit more detail and I am sure we can help.

EDIT:

Originally Posted by MEGA

Mate just get the powered LAN plugs about £60 for two good ones just plug one in downstairs and one upstairs use the existing wiring.

MUCH easier.

Otherwise.. Get Cat 6 and 50 meters should be fine without a booster!

Another absolute myth. CAT6 is utter shit for this kind of thing. It's got ridiculous bend-radi, it's brittle as fuck and you can't cable tie it because if you pinch the cable you fuck it. CAT6 works at such high frequency it turns in a wave guide and does not act as a conventional conducter for the signals. Deform it in the slightest and you fuck up the wave-guide properties and you will never get rated speed down it. Everyone seems to think CAT6 is the next great thing. It isn't. It's a ballache to install and there's little to no benefit. CAT5E or shielded CAT5E is just as good and has none of the bullshit installation issues.

[ed335d]

Originally Posted by MEGA

Mate just get the powered LAN plugs about £60 for two good ones just plug one in downstairs and one upstairs use the existing wiring.

MUCH easier.

Otherwise.. Get Cat 6 and 50 meters should be fine without a booster!

It's not the LAN connection he's trying to extend!

FYI 10Mb Ethernet will run about 150m over Cat 6, 100Mb about 130m

[ed335d]

'Another absolute myth. CAT6 is utter shit for this kind of thing. It's got ridiculous bend-radi, it's brittle as fuck and you can't cable tie it because if you pinch the cable you fuck it. CAT6 works at such high frequency it turns in a wave guide and does not act as a conventional conducter for the signals. Deform it in the slightest and you fuck up the wave-guide properties and you will never get rated speed down it. Everyone seems to think CAT6 is the next great thing. It isn't. It's a ballache to install and there's little to no benefit. CAT5E or shielded CAT5E is just as good and has none of the bullshit installation issues.'

Not strictly true. You can bend the absolute fuck out of Cat 6. It might not achieve a full performance test, but it will more than likely pass a Cat 5e test with flying colours.

[MEGA]

Originally Posted by ed335d

It's not the LAN connection he's trying to extend!

Well. He could put the router downstairs and run ethernet upstairs or is there some insane sideways logic that forces him to have the router upstairs?

[willhollin]

Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeekkkkkkkkkkkkkssssssssssssssssss

[MEGA]

Additionally.. Cable is cable. So powered lan will still work even if it's dirty internet running through it and not an ethernet set up. Surely.

[ed335d]

Originally Posted by MEGA

Additionally.. Cable is cable. So powered lan will still work even if it's dirty internet running through it and not an ethernet set up. Surely.

Not necessarily. ADSL will work very happily over 5e/6, LAN will not work at much distance over telephone cable.

[Hotcoupe]

Originally Posted by MEGA

Well. He could put the router downstairs and run ethernet upstairs or is there some insane sideways logic that forces him to have the router upstairs?

I'd put the router under the stairs, the ethernet in the bin and use next doors wireless connection, simples

[MEGA]

FFS I know that. That is the opposite of the point I was trying to make anyway.

You can carry an ADSL signal through any powered LAN style device.. As it smply has an RJ45 on both sides.

[willhollin]

[MEGA]

I share will sentiments. For the second time tonight I'm going to get angry at semantics. Only this time I will go to sleep rather than wait around for further replies.


OP: Good luck seeing the wood for the trees. A bunch of techies have started arguing in your topic

[ed335d]

Originally Posted by MEGA

FFS I know that. That is the opposite of the point I was trying to make anyway.

You can carry an ADSL signal through any powered LAN style device.. As it smply has an RJ45 on both sides.

But then it's not ADSL any longer, it's Ethernet

[ed335d]

Originally Posted by MEGA

I share will sentiments. For the second time tonight I'm going to get angry at semantics. Only this time I will go to sleep rather than wait around for further replies.


OP: Good luck seeing the wood for the trees. A bunch of techies have started arguing in your topic

You call them semantics, I call them technical accuracy

Sheesh Dave, you're no fun tonight

[MEGA]

Considering the tone of this conversation, I'll end with this.

if (!(Apple.equals(Orange))) {
System.out.println("Stop this.. ");
}


Dave

[toxicnerve]

Originally Posted by ed335d

'Another absolute myth. CAT6 is utter shit for this kind of thing. It's got ridiculous bend-radi, it's brittle as fuck and you can't cable tie it because if you pinch the cable you fuck it. CAT6 works at such high frequency it turns in a wave guide and does not act as a conventional conducter for the signals. Deform it in the slightest and you fuck up the wave-guide properties and you will never get rated speed down it. Everyone seems to think CAT6 is the next great thing. It isn't. It's a ballache to install and there's little to no benefit. CAT5E or shielded CAT5E is just as good and has none of the bullshit installation issues.'

Not strictly true. You can bend the absolute fuck out of Cat 6. It might not achieve a full performance test, but it will more than likely pass a Cat 5e test with flying colours.

I agree but then what's the point of using CAT6

Originally Posted by ed335d

Not necessarily. ADSL will work very happily over 5e/6, LAN will not work at much distance over telephone cable.

Explain why, I dare ya

Originally Posted by MEGA

Additionally.. Cable is cable. So powered lan will still work even if it's dirty internet running through it and not an ethernet set up. Surely.

Nope, different cables will be rated to different bandwidths over different distances. It's all to do with noise resistance, noise-cancelling and the frequencies at which these various technologies work.

Originally Posted by MEGA

FFS I know that. That is the opposite of the point I was trying to make anyway.

You can carry an ADSL signal through any powered LAN style device.. As it smply has an RJ45 on both sides.

NFI what you mean by that. ADSL is what is provided to you by the ISP/your telephone company and runs different signals to Ethernet (which is typically what people mean when they say LAN. So no, you couldn't "route" ADSL signals over an Ethernet switch.

[toxicnerve]

ed,

you're clearly clued up, what do you do for a living?

[MEGA]

Originally Posted by toxicnerve

I agree but then what's the point of using CAT6




Explain why, I dare ya



Nope, different cables will be rated to different bandwidths over different distances. It's all to do with noise resistance, noise-cancelling and the frequencies at which these various technologies work.



NFI what you mean by that. ADSL is what is provided to you by the ISP/your telephone company and runs different signals to Ethernet (which is typically what people mean when they say LAN. So no, you couldn't "route" ADSL signals over an Ethernet switch.

Yes i fucking know cables aren't actually all the same. OH WHY IS THE KETTLE LEAD WITH THE PLUG AT THE END NOT ROUTING INTERNET. Gurgles.

Honestly. FWIW I'm a sysadmin in control of about 70 boxes, a Sun SAN several Cisco PIX servers /Checkpoint and juniper firewalls - an enterprise ESX server and whatever else you can think of. Hosted across 3 bluesquare and 2 C&W data centers in central. With SC clearance due to .gov projects. And the rest of it. Just as we are playing the pissing contest game.

The OP's actual question has long since fallen beneath a shroud of "I am the best nerd" and frankly it is pathetic.

[willhollin]

Originally Posted by toxicnerve

ed,

you're clearly clued up, what do you do for a living?

He wanks turkeys off.