How long should my RJ11 and RJ45 be?

[watdahel]

I have DSL. I'm trying to figure out how best to wire the modem to my PC. The phone jack is in another room and I figured I'll need about 25 ft of cabling to connect my PC. My question is whether it's best to have the modem closer to my PC which would require a 6 ft RJ45 and 19 ft of RJ11 cable or I could do it the other way around and go 6 ft of RJ11 and 19 ft of RJ45. Which is better?

 

[zig3695]

i dont think it matters any way you do it. phone lines and ethernet cables carry signals over 200ft without problem

 

[bruceb]

Personally, I like to put a Whole House DSL Filter and the
entrance of the telco line to the home. It has a connection
for the Telco Line Side, another connection that Filters the DSL
which goes to the in home phone jacks. Another connection sends
the DSL Signal to your Modem / Router. But you will need to run cable
from the filter to the modem. However, the DSL Line will work a lot better.
You also do not need filters at each telephone in the home. In my home
I have DSL and it was going up & down. Installed that filter and it has not
gone down since (almost 1 1/2 years now)

 

[thecoolnessrune]

It really doesn't matter at what point you connect what to what. I think our house is living proof. Our outside line comes in, is hard wired to a jack on the other side of the wall, that jack hardwires to a three way splitter, a filter put on each end. One part of the now filtered splitoff goes into a 6 way splitter for multiple phones, answering machines, and receivers. The other split goes 25 ft down to two more phones and one more receiver. The third split goes 150 feet to an 8 way distribution block that includes phones, answering machines, receivers, and the modem. It all works just fine.. I figure if we don't fuck with it, it won't fuck with us 😛

So yeah.. just hook it up however is more convenient..

EDIT: I almost forgot to mention. Our router sits with our modem. Our server is back where our phone line originates. Since wireless wont reach that far reliably, we run a 150ft run of RJ-45 from our router *outside* all the way back to a switch in the room with the server. From the 5 port switch it makes connections to the server, a desktop, any test systems running, and our laptops when we're working on things in there. Again, things work perfectly. So we use the extremes of both of your questions. You really won't have a problem.

 

[heymrdj]

Yeah bro, that run from our telephone line back to our server is a 325ft mix of RJ11 and RJ45 cabling. No issues, the server serves my webdomains and file serves the house at 85mbs consistently.