Telephone and broadband setup

[punchy1973]

Hi All,
Was hoping you could help me. I have recently moved into a new house, and first should eplain the current set up.
I have BT coming into the the top of the house, (its a 3 storey house) and the master socket is in my bedroom. i then have telephone extension on the 2nd and 1st floor. So basically at the moment i have my broadband router in bedroom connected to the master socket along with a phone. I have nothing connect on the 2nd floor or 1st floor. I did try plugging my router into a filter on the 1st floor extension, because this is where my PC is, however it didnt seem to work well. I then brought mains extenders so could use the power socket next to my PC on the 1st floor. This has been fairly successful but because the ring main on the 1st floor is seperate to the ring main on the top floor i feel i am losing a bit. Also connecting to the extender wireless on the 1st floor is only marginally better than connecting to the router on the 3rd floor.
My questions are can i move the router to the 2nd floor? can i use the existing telephone cable to acheive this? i have brought another BT adsl/ telephone socket the same as the master, can i use this on the 2nd floor?
I am sure there will be many questions as i dont think i have explained that well lol.
Any help appreicted.

[seawright]

You should only have one master socket on a telephone line so I wouldn't advise fitting a second one.

Just to check where you are losing speed could you temporarily move your PC near to your router, connect it using an ethernet cable and do a speed test. If the test is satisfactory redo the test but this time using the powerline adaptors plugged into adjacent sockets. If the speed is then similar to that obtained when the PC was on the first floor you might consider upgrading the powerline adaptors.

Separate ring mains shouldn't be a problem provided they are supplied from the same (single phase) meter. With a three phase meter you would have to make sure that both ring mains were on the same phase but such a situation would be unusual for a residential property.

[punchy1973]

You should only have one master socket on a telephone line so I wouldn't advise fitting a second one.

Just to check where you are losing speed could you temporarily move your PC near to your router, connect it using an ethernet cable and do a speed test. If the test is satisfactory redo the test but this time using the powerline adaptors plugged into adjacent sockets. If the speed is then similar to that obtained when the PC was on the first floor you might consider upgrading the powerline adaptors.

Separate ring mains shouldn't be a problem provided they are supplied from the same (single phase) meter. With a three phase meter you would have to make sure that both ring mains were on the same phase but such a situation would be unusual for a residential property.

Hi thanks for reply.

To be honest the speed when using the powerline adapters on the 1st floor isn't to bad. the main issue really is the quality of the wifi signal from the powerline adapters. This is why I have considered moving the router down to the 2nd foor so we can connect direct to the wifi from the router.

[seawright]

Would it be possible to run a data extension from your master socket to the first floor? Cables are available in 10, 20 and 30 metre lengths and are lower loss than telephone extension cables. They are also available in black PE sheathed cable if you need to run one externally.

[punchy1973]

Would it be possible to run a data extension from your master socket to the first floor? Cables are available in 10, 20 and 30 metre lengths and are lower loss than telephone extension cables. They are also available in black PE sheathed cable if you need to run one externally.

Hi do you mean in order to move the Broadband router to the first floor?

[seawright]

Hi do you mean in order to move the Broadband router to the first floor?

Yes. The cable used for data extensions is better quality (lower loss) than the cable normally used for telephone extensions so it would be better than plugging your router into the telephone extension socket on the first floor.

[Isitme]

Do you have a built in filter on your master socket? If not, try removing the faceplate and run a speed test from the Test socket. (Link below)
If you do have a filter fitted, you will get a poor, if any, result from your extensions.