[Shop-talk] Wiring for DSL

[Gordie Bird]

I did this exact thing, hardwired (cat 5e or 6) from cable wifi modem (in basement) to router on second floor. Use router for wifi. My cable modem was smart enough that it recognized the second router and allowed it control of the IP addresses in the network. Surprised me and the tech support guy I was talking too. 

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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. 
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