Networking Question - Techies apply!

Here's the deal:

In my house we have a room about 150 feet away from my bedroom - this room has a modem/router and 3 comp's connected.

My problem is I want internet access in my room, but my phone line in the room doesn't work. Here's my question(s)

1.) If possible, (I would be willing), can have my own seperate internet access in my room if I fix my phone connection? (Who do I call, phone company? Geek Squad?) Btw - no wireless, I'm a gamer and I loathe wireless.

For that to work, you would (of course) have to fix your phone line, but you would also have to buy another DSL modem (I'm assuming you have DSL because you are mentioning phone connections). And I'm not too familiar with DSL connections, there may be difficulties in getting two DSL modems to connect at the same time from the same location.

150 feet, and maybe some walls/floors, is too far for wireless to function reliably. Maybe try a wireless access point in between your room and the modem room? As long as you can get a strong wirelss connection and a good wireless card and router, gaming should be fine.

Other than that and wiring your own cat5e jack into your room, i think you are out of luck.

I think that phone-jack you're referring to is too small for an ethernet cable. If you're referring to having dialup, then that'll be the phone company's job to fix it.

If you want broadband in that room, you can have your ISP send out a technician. He will split the cable and route one cable to the room with the 3 computers, and the other cable to the bedroom. In the bedroom, you'll have your own router and modem. This is assuming you have a cable modem.

You can also cutsom order a long cat5 cable (ethernet cable) and just route it through the rafters in the ceiling from the 3-comp room to the bedroom.

If you want another line then yea you need to ring the phone company BT or who ever yours is. And then pay the monthly line rental as well.You then want to get a DSL provider sorted although you can get a all in one package with the linerental and DSL included these days.

Another option is cable. If your in the UK then check out this website for list of providers,reviews,forum and comparisons :-

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/

An additional line from BT costs £124.99 for the instalation of it. You may just want to ring them and see if you can just get another master socket installed in your room, then sort out a DSL provider

Well theres a couple of options. First of all you could get a hella long network cable and connect the computer directly to the router in the other room (would require that the wires be covered also to protect them from damage).

Instead of that you could call your ISP and see if you can get a connection wired up in the other room also. There may be some additional fees, equipment, etc. required..I don't really know for sure.

P.S. Those suggesting wireless, hes already rejected that idea. Aside from the dubious viability of sending a wireless signal through 150 feet of household electronic signals and walls, very few people can set up a wireless network securely in any case.

Well theres a couple of options. First of all you could get a hella long network cable and connect the computer directly to the router in the other room (would require that the wires be covered also to protect them from damage).

Instead of that you could call your ISP and see if you can get a connection wired up in the other room also. There may be some additional fees, equipment, etc. required..I don't really know for sure.

P.S. Those suggesting wireless, hes already rejected that idea. Aside from the dubious viability of sending a wireless signal through 150 feet of household electronic signals and walls, very few people can set up a wireless network securely in any case.

RichterBelmont7

there really isnt anything wrong with wireless... if you get a decent router and have a good connection in the first place you'll just get a stutter at the most once a day, but i understand that it won't really work through 150 feet of walls and other things, and im not sure what you mean "set up a wireless network securely", changin a WEP code isnt that hard.

but i also got a question to someone who posted above, do you really need a router when you have a cable coming right into your room, don't you just need a modem?

and im not sure what you mean "set up a wireless network securely", changin a WEP code isnt that hard.

but i also got a question to someone who posted above, do you really need a router when you have a cable coming right into your room, don't you just need a modem?

zaman48

YE GODS! WEP is utterly and ENTIRELY worthless, do you know how ineffective WEP is? Theres some thought out there that it isn't even any better than having no encryption at all, WPA is better and WPA2 better still but by their very nature wireless networks are less secure than wired networks, just as networks running off copper are less secure than those running off of fiber-optics.

If you are using WEP you are asking for it. Don't believe me? Ask T.J. Maxx about it.

Thats a good part of the problem, people think that by using WEP and maybe turning off SSID broadcasts (which does virtually nothing also BTW) they are safe, thats really not the case.