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run fiber over old telephone wire

  • 20-01-2017 7:25pm
    #1
    patrickspicture
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 95 ✭✭


    hi,
    i want to upgrade to fiber and the setup for our telephone line is a junction box inside next to the front door then the master socket is at the other end of the hallway, about 13 ft away. the house is 20 years old and i wanted to find out would i be better off having the master socket next to the door and running an extension cable over to the current location of the router "13ft" away.
    leaving the setup the way it is and running the fiber through a junction box and over old wire.
    or last installing the router next to the door and running a switch at the routers current location because i have 3 cat 6 cables dropped and 3 more that are going to be installed to the area of the current router.

    thank you


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  • #2
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    You're talking about VDSL, not fibre. Its quite sensitive.


    If the 13ft run is old bell wire, forget it. If its reasonably decent UTP then you can get away with it but might take a speed hit.

    Ideally the modem should be directly on the end of the drop from the street but a few meters of good cabling isnt a huge issue. If the old wiring sucks just replace it with CAT5 and use one pair(blue + blue white for example).


  • #3
    patrickspicture
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 95 ✭✭patrickspicture


    thank you,
    I kind of decided that after posting the message. I was looking at posts about line noise and attenuation and looked up my current dsl status and found that the attenuation and noise were good but could be better so getting rid of the extensions and junction would hopefully improve the signal. then run network cable under the skirting to the location of all my cables.

    will the telephone still work over the line or will it be voip once I upgrade?


  • #4
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    I should have confirmed, you're not in a rural fibre area? If its FTTH this is all different.

    With eir and sky POTS is still provided. With vodafone its VOIP by default now but you can backfeed your internal sockets from their modem with an RJ11 patch.


  • #5
    patrickspicture
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 95 ✭✭patrickspicture


    thanks again.
    It isn't ftth I live in the sticks. says I can get 30 out of the 100. since it is only 30 I wanted to minimize any drop in speed caused by wiring and such. we are on 8ngb now so if we are lucky we might get 20 - 25 with the vdsl.

    thanks again for getting back


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