tegwin
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| posted on 16/8/08 at 10:18 AM |
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OT moving phone points?
I am just planing a home network upgrade to incorporate a Firewall/VPN tunnel, a 1Gbit infrastructure and a Raid-5 NAS box...
I want to centralize all of the "little boxes" so this will mean extending the phone cable by about 15 meters.. (Its already about 15M
from the box on the outside of the house to the phone point)
Will having such a long phone cable slow the connection down?
We only have a 2Mb/sec connection anyway....
(as an aside, anyone have any experience with Thecus NAS boxes?
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joneh
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| posted on 16/8/08 at 10:20 AM |
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I'd put the router near the phone and run a cat5 to your switching gear.
Or just try it on a 15m extension lead and see if it slows down.
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blakep82
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| posted on 16/8/08 at 10:37 AM |
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i would think, with the distance you are likely to be from the phone exchange, and extra 15m won't make much of a difference
[Edited on 16/8/08 by blakep82]
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britishtrident
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| posted on 16/8/08 at 11:07 AM |
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It would be better leaving the router near the phone point and running cat5 or these days cat6e to a cheap switched hub.
I don't know Thecus NAS I have been running NAS boxes on the home network for a couple of years, I started out with FreeNAS on an old cast off
pc but swapped to a basic single drive NAS box bought from Maplin as a bare bones unit for £40. It has run 24/7 for 18 months without a glitch and
is mainly used for unattended nightly backups of critical directories from the Windows pc (all done automatically using Cobian Backup freeware)
NAS boxes tend to run firmware based on cut down version of Windows NT, you have to be careful with passwords and the setup of personal areas &
directories on the NAS box, if your NAS box has the option of setting up secure FTP directories this is very useful. One thing you have to watch is
that it may try and act as a a DCHP server for the network -- best to disable this. I also found that it was better to use a fixed IP address for the
NAS box and arrange that the router (which acts as DCHP and DNS server for the network) to reserve the address for the NAS box but not all routers
allow this. Also it is a good idea to enter the fixed iP address and host name of the nas box in the windows PCs hosts & localhosts files
One of the reasons I use Cobian backup is it has the option of doing backups and archiving by FTP, When I need to access the the FTP directories from
Windows PCs I use FileZilla which is just like using the old Windows 3 file manager Filezilla also exists for Linux.
[Edited on 16/8/08 by britishtrident]
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britishtrident
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| posted on 16/8/08 at 11:15 AM |
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This what I use
http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?TabID=1&criteria=usb&ModuleNo=97390&doy=search&C=SO&U=Strat15
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geoff shep
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| posted on 16/8/08 at 12:44 PM |
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My phone comes into the house in the corner of the lounge. From there (built in when new) an extension runs up to a socket in the bedroom. I have
run another extension from there up into the loft, across the house and down into the back bedroom/study. The router is plugged into that and its
fine, 6-7 Mbps usually.
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splitrivet
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| posted on 16/8/08 at 01:02 PM |
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You'll have no problems extending you Phone line just make sure youve got a filter on all telecoms gear including Skybox.
Cheers,
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Jasper
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| posted on 16/8/08 at 02:56 PM |
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I just bought myself one of those telecom tools for putting the wires into the back of telephone and Cat5 boxes - about £5 from Ebay - and I got some
Cat5 faceplates too very cheap.
Much easier than trying to do it with a Stanley blade!
If you're not living life on the edge you're taking up too much room.
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britishtrident
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| posted on 16/8/08 at 02:59 PM |
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Now that the subject of filters has been raised this filtered face plate is what I use on the master sockets of both my ADSL lines. BT recommend
them for getting the best line speed.
http://www.adslnation.com/products/xte2005.php
You can also fit these filtered extension sockets
http://www.adslnation.com/products/xtf.php
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geoff shep
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| posted on 21/8/08 at 10:53 AM |
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What is 'centerlaized' filtration I wonder.
I guess that one would only work with your router positioned near the main socket.
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Marcus
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| posted on 21/8/08 at 11:50 AM |
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Rather than networking the house in cat5, i put the router centrally and, since my house is covered in mains wires, I'm using Dlan, lan through
the mains. I have to say I'm really impressed, a few network points in every room (including the garage!) all for 65 quid.
Marcus
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