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Home networking using telephone lines

Asked by java2architect in Telecommunications Providers, Miscellaneous Networking

Tags: telephone, using

I have high speed cable internet access. I have set up a network in one room using a LinkSys cable/dsl router. I simply connect the cable modem to the router and then upto the allowable 4 computers to my router. Everything works just great!

Now I want to connect more computers. So I decided I could buy a hub and hook it up to my LinkSys routers WAN port. Then I'll have more ports to connect more computers since my router supports upto 253 odd IP addresses. Problem is my room is getting crowded. I would really like to put any additional computers I want in other rooms.

No problem I tell myself, I'll just take the CAT-5 from my LinkSys WAN port and shove it back into a wall socket, somehow get it up into my attic assuming the wire is long enough. Then I'll put my hub in the attic and drop down cables into each of my rooms - at least rooms on the upper floor - which is not so bad.

Then I meet this "Network Engineer". He says for $100 an hour he can do the following - and this is my real question - assuming what I said earlier is also an option.

He said, I have enough telephone i.e. RJ-11 wires running thru my house. I need only 4 of these wires for RJ-45 (2 to transmit, 2 to receive). I could take the CAT 5 a.k.a RJ-45 from my routers WAN port and work some magic and connect it to THOSE 4 Wires using a crimp tool. No HUBS required. I go to whatever room I want, and somehow find corresponding 4 wires, and make a RJ-45 socket out of it. Then I simply connect my computer using a cable to this socket. Presto, I'm done!!!

This seems to simple, but I cannot say it cannot be done.

So can it be done and if so, how do I go about doing this myself?

Thanks in advance

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Home networking using telephone lines

Asked by java2architect in Telecommunications Providers, Miscellaneous Networking

Tags: telephone, using

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