[Shop-talk] Wiring for DSL

[Peter J. Thomas]

On 9/1/2015 3:50 PM, Scott Hall wrote:
> New house has two options for internet: Frontier DSL and Mediacom coax.
>
> Mediacom wants a $100 'setup' fee and has a usage cap. Yes, I called back
> to make sure it was still 2015 and that I hadn't fallen into a time warp to
> 1989. In Bolivia.
>
> So...DSL it is.
>
> The house--and I'm not making this up--has no working phone jacks in it.
> There were only two in the whole house anyway. This thing was built BEFORE
> phones to begin with, and they never wired the whole thing?
>
> Anyway, they've got to punch a new hole through to the outside and they
> want to do it in the basement. Fair enough, no one will mess with it there.
> Problem: the free modem is also a modem and wifi router, and the guy
> assures me it won't reach to the third floor, where I'm living while I
> destroy the rest of the house.
>
> I'd like to do this once and right. Any advice?
>
> Modem in the basement, wifi routers on each floor for good coverage? Any
> advice on how to set up those routers, or which to get? Ideally I'd use the
> same network ID and could just go from room to room/floor to floor
> seamlessly.  I'm willing to tear out walls for wires if I need to. A
> website to peruse would also work if this is too newb to go into.
>
> Thanks.
Place a good wifi router in the center of the house, top to bottom, end 
to end.  Wire that router the modem.  Don't use the wifi in the "free" 
router/modem except for non-mobile devices near the it.