Opinion needed ... Long ethernet cable or long telephone cable?

smartblaa

Ok, so I have a telephone wall socket in my bedroom. My Eircom Broadband router is at this location also. Its located in the opposite corner of the room from where my laptop and a server are.

I want to have wired network access to the router from my PC and Server.

My question is, should I:

1. Keep the Router where it is, and cable ethernet around the edge of the room.

OR

2. Get a long telephone lead, and cable it around the edge of the room, and move my Eircom router beside my PC and Server.

I want opinions on which would be less detrimental to the speeds and pings over the network?

and before anyone suggests them ..i'm not too keen on Homeplugs


Thanks lads!

Dacelonid

I would imagine you would be better off running ethernet cable as it is made up of twisted pairs and would withstand any interference or noise that may occur

corkcomp

Dacelonid wrote: »

I would imagine you would be better off running ethernet cable as it is made up of twisted pairs and would withstand any interference or noise that may occur

+1 go with option 1

thegen

If your ethernet run will be morw than 10mtrs extend your phone line. Ethernet over a patch cord in excess of 10mtrs will have signal degradation.

n0brain3r

thegen wrote: »

If your ethernet run will be morw than 10mtrs extend your phone line. Ethernet over a patch cord in excess of 10mtrs will have signal degradation.

I think it's against the standard alright but as for degradation unless it's poorly terminated or routed with power cable for the duration you should be fine with 10m! If you have free sockets I'd go for powerline adaptors I use them all over the house I even stream movies to the PS3 and it works fine on a 85Mbps set

corkcomp

people are getting carried away here:D the OP is talking about having the router at opposite side of same room (bedroom) no need to worry about attenuation in cat5 run and no need to use ethernet over power devices..

n0brain3r

Ah yes but he asked for options & I always like to over do it plus he has a server of some description in the bedroom if its a media server with powerlines that server could be available anywhere in the house

jimmycrackcorm

I'd go with the phone extension. It's neater and will work fine. I did that across my house before and noticed no difference from being plugged in directly to the phone incoming socket.

Alun

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

I'd go with the phone extension. It's neater and will work fine. I did that across my house before and noticed no difference from being plugged in directly to the phone incoming socket.

I agree .. the phone line from exchange to his house is already a number of kilometres long, another few metres to cross a room isn't going to make any difference.

Gadgetman496

Option 2 for me too, I've done it many times and it's much neater with no drop in speeds. I mean it is only the other side of a standard room?

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smartblaa

Thanks everyone for the replies.
Using the long phone cable would be the neatest and most practical solution.
It would be my preferred option, as the router is then beside my equipment.

I suppose, I just wanted to see if it would cause any noticeable degradation of the quality of the link.

Just to clarify, the total distance of cabling needed is about 6-7 metres total
This shouldn't cause issues? Should it?

Thanks again..

Gadgetman496

No it won't cause any issues.