Rj45 to RJ11

[Advocate]

We'll be doing morse code on the central heating system by the end of the day...

[VectraMan]

You've still got the problem of the three floors. You might be able to get one working by just connecting the four important wires from RJ45 to RJ11, but it won't let you have 3 connections one one cable (unless you had 12 wires in the cable).

The satellite connection might work. You'd have to find some 10-base 2 equipment of course, and there's the issue of impedence.

[Advocate]

You've still got the problem of the three floors. You might be able to get one working by just connecting the four important wires from RJ45 to RJ11, but it won't let you have 3 connections one one cable (unless you had 12 wires in the cable).

The satellite connection might work. You'd have to find some 10-base 2 equipment of course, and there's the issue of impedence.

You can get pills for that now, little blue ones.

[NotAllThere]

I last did networking stuff with 10Base2 - that's how old I am. Vodafone Paknet in Thatcham. We had the floor up one time to add a new workstation to the ethernet - and discovered that the end of the cable wasn't terminated with a 50 Ohm terminator (IIRC). Didn't seem to affect the running of the network though, which seemed odd.

I think I'll stick to being able to plug in one laptop at a time.

[EvilWeevil]

Cellar
Ground floor
First floor
Second floor

Any other solutions?

Your house appears to be upside down.

Wireless bridges? Higher powered wireless?

[gadgetman]

I bought two sets of 200Mb BT Comtrend (powerline) adapters (i.e. 4 adapters in total) for less than 100 quid on ebay. Going rate is less than 50 quid a pair.

Its a lot less hassle and you can plug them in anywhere you have a power socket.

A couple of adaptors for RJ45 to RJ112 and a little hub is likely to be a bit cheaper than networking over the power cables.

[Clippy]

I've a wireless router in the cellar, but can't get connect to it above the ground floor - which is fine for most use, but it would be useful to have the ability to connect to the net from the other floors. Also handy for visitors who perhaps haven't got wireless on their laptops, if that's possible nowadays!

My house is wired for two phone lines, with RJ11 sockets on all four floors. However, I only have one phone line actually in use. I was thinking that I could get a few RJ45 to RJ11 converters and use the spare line as network cabling.

Perhaps something like this:

Cellar

            !--------!    !-----!    !--!
Internet----! Router !----! Hub !----!PC!
            !--------!    !-----!    !--!
                             !
                           !--!   !---!    !--!
                           !SC!---!Hub!----!PC!
                           !--!   !---!    !--!
                             !
Ground floor.................!...................
                             !
                           !--!   !---!    !--!
                           !SG!---!Hub!----!PC!
                           !--!   !---!    !--!
                             !
First  floor.................!...................
                             !
                           !--!   !---!    !--!
                           !S1!---!Hub!----!PC!
                           !--!   !---!    !--!
                             !
Second floor.................!...................
                             !
                           !--!   !---!    !--!
                           !S2!---!Hub!----!PC!
                           !--!   !---!    !--!

Where SC, SG, S1, S2 are the sockets with convertors on each floor.

Is this going to work? Do I need a hub on each floor? Any other solutions?

Thanks.

Would the following not work:

Connect a RJ45 to RJ11 cable from the hub to the spare telephone line in the cellar.

Connect a RJ11 to RJ45 cable from the corresponding telephone socket on the first floor and plug into a hub which is connected to an additional wireless access point.

Edit: As an alternative, how about something like this?

[wc2]

I bought two sets of 200Mb BT Comtrend (powerline) adapters (i.e. 4 adapters in total) for less than 100 quid on ebay. Going rate is less than 50 quid a pair.

Its a lot less hassle and you can plug them in anywhere you have a power socket.

WHS

[pmeswani]

I've a wireless router in the cellar, but can't get connect to it above the ground floor - which is fine for most use, but it would be useful to have the ability to connect to the net from the other floors. Also handy for visitors who perhaps haven't got wireless on their laptops, if that's possible nowadays!

My house is wired for two phone lines, with RJ11 sockets on all four floors. However, I only have one phone line actually in use. I was thinking that I could get a few RJ45 to RJ11 converters and use the spare line as network cabling.

Perhaps something like this:

Cellar

            !--------!    !-----!    !--!
Internet----! Router !----! Hub !----!PC!
            !--------!    !-----!    !--!
                             !
                           !--!   !---!    !--!
                           !SC!---!Hub!----!PC!
                           !--!   !---!    !--!
                             !
Ground floor.................!...................
                             !
                           !--!   !---!    !--!
                           !SG!---!Hub!----!PC!
                           !--!   !---!    !--!
                             !
First  floor.................!...................
                             !
                           !--!   !---!    !--!
                           !S1!---!Hub!----!PC!
                           !--!   !---!    !--!
                             !
Second floor.................!...................
                             !
                           !--!   !---!    !--!
                           !S2!---!Hub!----!PC!
                           !--!   !---!    !--!

Where SC, SG, S1, S2 are the sockets with convertors on each floor.

Is this going to work? Do I need a hub on each floor? Any other solutions?

Thanks.

Why not replace the redundant Telephone sockets with RJ45 sockets and wire it properly? May cost a bit more, but would make more sense. Alternatively, does your wireless router have a detachable attenna? If so, why not buy one of those booster ari(a|e)ls?

[jmo21]

I bought two sets of 200Mb BT Comtrend (powerline) adapters (i.e. 4 adapters in total) for less than 100 quid on ebay. Going rate is less than 50 quid a pair.

Its a lot less hassle and you can plug them in anywhere you have a power socket.

+1

though to be fair i don't have a 4 floored mansion to wire!

wired is so much better for streaming films/ music from my PC through my xbox 360