[Rustington] Be Aware ! - BT Infinity Broadband

[Paul Willis]

I have miles of cat5e if you would like to cable it properly. The
normal limit for 10/100 is 300metres. I have never used those wretched
little filters, I have always had the modified faceplate for the
master socket - much neater arrangement. Separating your phone from
the broadband as soon as possible has always given the best result
too. Now they've just decided to insist upon it. In my case, once
split, the bband goes up 1 pair with the phone using another and the
bell line takes half of a third pair leaving 1.5 pairs unused. BT
actually recommend cabling from their router as Gbit which I doubt can
be done over homeplugs - but they're going over the top to try and
avoid problems - your idea should work OK. They are supposed to offer
to move your master socket for you if its too far from where you want
the router.
Paul

On 27 October 2012 17:54, Stuart McFadyen
<stuart.624mcfadyen at btinternet.com> wrote:
> If you are interested in upgrading to BT Infinity Broadband, you might like
> to take note of the engineering reqirements.
>
> As you know, all domestic Broadband Routers connect directly to the phone
> line via a broadband Filter plug, which can be situated anywhere in the
> house where there is a telephone extension socket.
>
> This is NOT the case with BT Infinity.
>
> The faceplate of the Master telephone socket will be replaced and a Fibre
> Modem installed, which connects by Ethernet cable, ONLY to the revised
> Master socket. The Fibre Modem then connects to the Router (V3 BT Home Hub)
> via an Ethernet cable.
>
> This of course means that the Router CANNOT be distanced from the Fibre
> Modem (in my case the Router is currently upstairs and Master socket
> downstairs !), unless you are able to connect them via an extended Ethernet
> cable (max 30 metres ?).
>
> All my Networked office equipment is upstairs, with the Router, and cannot
> be resited.
>
> My solution .... Quite by chance I had a couple of spare HomePlugs left over
> from a duplicated BT Vision order. These devices provide Ethernet networking
> over house mains electricity wiring. So my existing Router is now downstairs
> feeding Ethernet upstairs over a pair of HomeHubs .... sorted ..... but I
> still await the BT engineer on the 5th November to install Infinity.
>
> I hope this all makes sense and is helpful.
>
> Stuart.
>
>
>
>
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