Advice needed on connecting broadband from outside to inside my place

Dara Robinson

I’m hoping that someone can give me some advice here.
 
I’ve just moved to a new place and I’m getting the internet connected to the house, the company are fitting ADSL (basically a DSL connection). So the phone connection comes to the house and is connected to a box outside of the house, that feeds inside to another junction box which then distributes the connections like a network to a few points around the house but as far as I can see they are all RJ45 points around the inside of the house and I cannot see any RJ11 connections around the inside of the house.
 
If I get the broadband engineer to connect the house up and bring the connection to one specific point within the house can I simply replace the RJ45 panel to a RJ11 one? Or even better can I simply buy an RJ45 to RJ11 converter? Would that work?
 
I know it’s very hard to give me accurate reply’s without knowing for sure, but as I have just moved in I am short on info plus it’s not helping  me that the Landlord (lovely guy in fairness) is not sure as it’s a new build and he had the builders do most of the work. In saying that, can anyone give me some advice on how this should work? I can get more info when I get home tonight btw so ask away if more info will help

The high horse brigade

Dara Robinson wrote: »

I’m hoping that someone can give me some advice here.
 
I’ve just moved to a new place and I’m getting the internet connected to the house, the company are fitting ADSL (basically a DSL connection). So the phone connection comes to the house and is connected to a box outside of the house, that feeds inside to another junction box which then distributes the connections like a network to a few points around the house but as far as I can see they are all RJ45 points around the inside of the house and I cannot see any RJ11 connections around the inside of the house.
 
If I get the broadband engineer to connect the house up and bring the connection to one specific point within the house can I simply replace the RJ45 panel to a RJ11 one? Or even better can I simply buy an RJ45 to RJ11 converter? Would that work?
 
I know it’s very hard to give me accurate reply’s without knowing for sure, but as I have just moved in I am short on info plus it’s not helping  me that the Landlord (lovely guy in fairness) is not sure as it’s a new build and he had the builders do most of the work. In saying that, can anyone give me some advice on how this should work? I can get more info when I get home tonight btw so ask away if more info will help

An rj11 plug fits in an rj45 socket

ED E

Lets assume:
All runs are individual 4pair cat5+
They run back to a patch panel/switch

You could "cannibalise" one run to use the centre pair to carry the ADSL and put a modem at that remote point but frankly thats a big waste of the work the builder has done.

Best approach is to place the ISPs modem/router in the location where all runs terminate then you can use them to distribute it (and additional access points if required).


The other possibility is the builder wired them communally for phone and then you'll need to disconnect all but one for it to work properly.

Dara Robinson

The high horse brigade wrote: »

An rj11 plug fits in an rj45 socket

So can I just have the eircom engineer make the connections and plug the phone cable into the RJ45 panel in the wall in the sitting room?

ED E wrote: »

Lets assume:
Best approach is to place the ISPs modem/router in the location where all runs terminate then you can use them to distribute it (and additional access points if required).

That panel is on the wall near the ceiling in the kitchen with no power sockets close by, actually not feasible withing running cables all over the place and leaving them hanging but its close to the temp solution I was thinking of

Thanks for the advice so far

ED E

If you post a couple pictures it'll be much easier to advise you.