help with placing wireless router in the wall box

[cmf21]

Need some help. My sister has moved into a brand new house in the Phoenix area. She got Qwest DSL service and they gave her a Actiontec PK5000 Wireless DSL Modem since she has a adsl 2+ 20mb connection. For the past few days, we have had it plugged into the kitchen since that's where she originally would have liked the computer to go but it won't fit so she's going to move it to another room. No problem until the Directv guy comes out. He sets everything up and hooks up the system to connect to the internet. By this time, the Qwest router is upstairs in the loft and he has connected some sort of device from the cable line into the router.


My sister isn't sure she wants to have her computer there is the loft and would like to move everything but it's kind of stuck there now with no place to put it.

She does however, have a box in the laundry room where all the tv connections and internet connections are. I was thinking she could place that little box from Directv box and the wireless router in there but there is a slight problem. The internet line coming into the house has a rj45 connection but the line in on the wireless router from Qwest is Rj11 so it doesn't fit. She would like to keep the computer and router out of the tv room but that box from Directv is there.

Can an adapter be bought to connect the rj45 to the rj11 port or is there a better way.

 

[VirtualLarry]

The internet line coming into the house has a rj45 connection but the line in on the wireless router from Qwest is Rj11 so it doesn't fit. She would like to keep the computer and router out of the tv room but that box from Directv is there.

Can an adapter be bought to connect the rj45 to the rj11 port or is there a better way.

Huh? You have an RJ-45 coming into the house? What for? Do you have ethernet coming in off of the street, or what? RJ-11 is telephone, and that's what your DSL uses to connect to the phone network. At least, it should. This RJ-45 is a mystery to me.

 

[JackMDS]

RJ 11 means that it is a Modem/Router.

Putting the Wireless in a closet ensures that there is No Wireless in he house.

We all due respect, I think you have to self educated yourself a little more do that you can understand what the hardware does.

 

[cmf21]

The line coming into the house goes into a box in an upstairs room that shares the connection throughout the house. It has an rj45 end on it, so do all the other ports / lines that get distributed throughout the house. For some reason, it seems like the ports in the house are only rj11 / telephone. In this box, their are also coax cables in this box for the tv connections. Right now the router and this internet device that the Directv guy gave them are in the same room together. The device has an ethernet line that connects to the router. My sister doesn't want to have the computer / router in the same room as the tv with this device. If we move the router to another room, there will be no internet connection for the Directv receiver.


We were thinking of putting the router and device from directv in the box in the closet because that's where all the connections in the house are. Problem is, the line in on the router is an rj11 port and the rj45 connection from the line comming into the house won't fit. We were wondering if we could simply buy an adapter to make the rj45 port fit the rj11 port or is their a better way?

 

[VirtualLarry]

It sounds vaguely like the house is wired for ethernet, if it has RJ-45 jacks scattered around the house, and all terminating at a closet. If it is, then you can have your cake and eat it too, so to speak.

I don't understand why a phone line would have an RJ-45 jack rather than an RJ-11 jack, unless the builder screwed up bigtime somehow.