Signal loss and closed loop on home wiring network

Boeing100

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Hi All

I recently moved into a new apartment which already had network sockets installed in pretty much each room. Here are the issues I'm having

* The British Telecom Openreach Master plug is in our master bedroom which is not exactly handy. If I plug the internet router directly into the plug of our office room, internet will work, but I get only 50% speed compared to being plugged into the master plug. Because the faceplate on the master plug says "openreach", my understanding from doing some research is that it has the hardware built in to reduce any noise on the home circuit already. So why would I have such a massive loss of signal between two plugs?

* If I plug the router in any socket, (for example I plug the router in the master socket in the bedroom, then plug my deskop computer into the office plug via a ADSL filter and RJ11 to RJ45 cable), the internet connection gets killed instantly. We've tried this on several plugs and still the same result, as long as there is any other device plugged in, the internet connection on the main router will die. Any ideas why this might happen and what I can do to remedy it?

A quick note that all wall face plates/pluges are BT phone plugs, not RJ11 or RJ45 type plugs. I have ADSL micofilters and cabling for all.

Any insight would be hugely appreciated

Thanks


 
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Your main problem is your apartment does not have "network" sockets it has telephone sockets. You can not plug equipment with ethernet into those connections. It is not just changing the plug connector on the end of the wire. You could put a power plug on your wires and plug it into electrical outlet and it does not make it able to use the electrical wires like powerline unit do, you would just fry your PC.

Telephone wiring is done differently than ethernrt, generally it is all daisy changed room to room where ethernet is all point to point.

DSL modems even though they may use the same rj45 connector are designed to work on telephone lines. That is there whole reason for existing to in effect covert phone line signals to...
Your main problem is your apartment does not have "network" sockets it has telephone sockets. You can not plug equipment with ethernet into those connections. It is not just changing the plug connector on the end of the wire. You could put a power plug on your wires and plug it into electrical outlet and it does not make it able to use the electrical wires like powerline unit do, you would just fry your PC.

Telephone wiring is done differently than ethernrt, generally it is all daisy changed room to room where ethernet is all point to point.

DSL modems even though they may use the same rj45 connector are designed to work on telephone lines. That is there whole reason for existing to in effect covert phone line signals to ethernet.

Why it works better in one room than others tends to be impossible to say. It greatly depends on the wiring in your place. You would have to make changes to the wiring which likely is not simple if you are renting. Not sure what open reach means but it sounds like a dsl filter maybe you could move it.

 
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Boeing100

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Thank you very much Bill001g.