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Hey everyone,

My wireless router is up stairs in my unit. Will I lose much bandwidth/throughput or gain errors with data transfer if I use a 10m 2 copper phone cable extension to move the router downstairs from the phone socket, and then a 10m ethernet cable from the router to my PC?

Or would I just be better off using a wireless adapter on my PC?

Any advice would be appreciated.
 
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The extra 10m of phone extension cable is almost irrelevant compared to the (maybe 3 miles?) cable length from the exchange to your phone.

CAT5e should still give you a gigabit connection over 100m of cable, with no impact on latency or throughput at all.

No question at all that going cable is by far the better option.
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sodermat

sodermat

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Yeah the phone cable extension would be on the WAN side and yeah it's DSL. I was thinking it should be ok, seen as there would be a fair length of twin copper from my socket back to the pit out on the street.

Thanks for your reply.
 
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rhysiam

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The extra 10m of phone extension cable is almost irrelevant compared to the (maybe 3 miles?) cable length from the exchange to your phone.

CAT5e should still give you a gigabit connection over 100m of cable, with no impact on latency or throughput at all.

No question at all that going cable is by far the better option.
 
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sodermat

sodermat

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Ahh great, thanks for your help.
 
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