Ethernet over telephone socket?
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Hello,
First of all, I would like to apologize if I lack precision in this description; I will provide more information if needed. Let me explain the issue I am facing.
I recently moved into a very large two-story house. In this house, almost all the rooms are equipped with one to two telephone sockets (also known as T sockets). They were all connected to the main line, which caused a huge loss of internet speed. We called in a technician from Free (since I am with Free), and he simply connected the phone socket from the box to the main line (he thus disabled the rest, at our request).
The problem is that my room is the furthest from the box; it is located on the second floor while the box is located on the ground floor. Therefore, I do not receive any WiFi signal.
Now, where I want to go with this, is that I have the telephone line directly in my room, and I wanted to know if I could take advantage of this. That is to say, reconnect my phone socket in my room to the main line, and then directly connect my computer via Ethernet to the phone socket.
I don't know if it's possible to connect a computer directly to a phone socket for networking in the first place. I know that an Ethernet cable consists of 8 wires, if I'm not mistaken, and that the phone socket only needs 2 wires. Hence this question I am asking.
Would it be better to change the socket to an RJ45 socket for this to potentially work?
I am aware of other ways to bring internet to the upstairs, but I really wanted to know if we could do this under these conditions. It would simply be cheaper.
I know this is quite a lot of information in one subject, but I thank you in advance for your responses, and I remain available for any additional information.
First of all, I would like to apologize if I lack precision in this description; I will provide more information if needed. Let me explain the issue I am facing.
I recently moved into a very large two-story house. In this house, almost all the rooms are equipped with one to two telephone sockets (also known as T sockets). They were all connected to the main line, which caused a huge loss of internet speed. We called in a technician from Free (since I am with Free), and he simply connected the phone socket from the box to the main line (he thus disabled the rest, at our request).
The problem is that my room is the furthest from the box; it is located on the second floor while the box is located on the ground floor. Therefore, I do not receive any WiFi signal.
Now, where I want to go with this, is that I have the telephone line directly in my room, and I wanted to know if I could take advantage of this. That is to say, reconnect my phone socket in my room to the main line, and then directly connect my computer via Ethernet to the phone socket.
I don't know if it's possible to connect a computer directly to a phone socket for networking in the first place. I know that an Ethernet cable consists of 8 wires, if I'm not mistaken, and that the phone socket only needs 2 wires. Hence this question I am asking.
Would it be better to change the socket to an RJ45 socket for this to potentially work?
I am aware of other ways to bring internet to the upstairs, but I really wanted to know if we could do this under these conditions. It would simply be cheaper.
I know this is quite a lot of information in one subject, but I thank you in advance for your responses, and I remain available for any additional information.
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Hi,
first of all, yes, the wall sockets need to be replaced with RJ45 and the same ones installed at the concentration point, which should become a patch panel.
Your box should then be installed near this patch panel.
We also need to check if the installed cables are at least cat5 to support the Ethernet network.
After that, the principle is there:
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and ... There you go!
first of all, yes, the wall sockets need to be replaced with RJ45 and the same ones installed at the concentration point, which should become a patch panel.
Your box should then be installed near this patch panel.
We also need to check if the installed cables are at least cat5 to support the Ethernet network.
After that, the principle is there:
--
and ... There you go!
Thank you for your detailed response; so as I thought, a complete change is needed for quite a few things. I better understand how it works now. I think I will go for the cable that I will run from my bedroom to the ground floor. It will be cheaper than a WiFi extender, which costs around €50, and I already have the cable at home.
In addition to being "cheaper" in this case, it will also be much more effective than Wi-Fi... whose carrier waves can be easily disrupted by a wall or any electronic device in the way (microwaves in particular...)