[Shop-talk] Wiring for DSL

[Brian Kemp]

I also agree to get a second router to serve as your main wireless 
connection.  My house was wired with about 10 phone jacks (3 bedroom 2 
story), but the wires were in bad shape and DSL wouldn't work, so we 
disconnected all but 2 jacks.  My wife kept having her printer drop off 
network, so I got a second router and ran a 100' cat 6 cable up to the 
new router near her computer and printer.

The free router is also probably a low end one.  It is best just to use 
it to receive the DSL and have a good one for wireless.  My wife's 
signal is much better - less drops and faster - with my newer Trendnet 
router instead of the AT&T free one, even when I moved her laptop to the 
same room as the AT&T router.

If you have a chase of some sort, you may be able to get the cable to a 
good central location.  Since you appear to have some renovations, 
hopefully it is easy to at least get up to the second floor.

People say wireless is the future, but I did a balcony replacement and 
added some empty conduit from my computer area to my crawlspace in case 
I ever needed it.  This conduit made it easy to run the cable to the 
second modem.  If you have walls down, running some empty 3/4" PVC 
conduit to empty boxes might be a good idea.  You may want to run fiber 
in a decade to stream your ultra super duper high def video so you don't 
radiate yourself.  PCV conduit is cheap and easy to run.

I don't think it is code, but if you have a HVAC duct, that may also be 
a place you could run a cable.

Brian


On 9/1/2015 12:50 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.
>
> Scott
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