Please help...new home construction & DSL wiring

[Tullphan]

A friend is building a new home & is getting ready to wire it. He's getting DSL & wants the ability to put his pc in any room & have the high speed access. He only wants one DSL line run into the house because he heard that they would charge him for multiple accounts otherwise (more than one "outlet"?).
Can anyone advise for a proper setup for what he's wanting without going wireless?
Thanks in advance.

 

[bobcpg]

So is the DSL line different from his talking line because if it is not then he should be able to locate the modem anywhere in the house and just not filter it where he wants the computer.

-bob

 

[Tullphan]

From my understanding, he's going to have at least 3 pc's networked.
He mentioned something about a hub & router.
Since I know nothing about DSL, is it a different type of jack than a phone jack?
I think he wants to take the one line coming in & run it throughout the house. Is that possible?

 

[bazookatone]

DSL runs off the same line as the phone line. So if he wants to be able to use his dsl modem in any room tell him to add a phone jack in those rooms.
He may consider also running cat5 cable. This is networking cable. He maybe be able to run along the same lines as the phone line thus having a phone jack and an ethernet jack in teh same area. Cat5 is a different connection. its rj 45. This would be a bit more complicated because he would need all the cat5 wiring to meet in one main place where a hub/switch/router would connect them all together....maybe a basement or something

 

[JackMDS]

You and you friend might find partial comfort in the content of these links:

AnandTech - FAQ. Basic Options for Internet Connection Sharing

AnandTech - FAQ. Hubs, routers, switches, DSL, LANs, WANs...?

Basically the DSL line and the modem have to sit in one spot. At this spot there should be a Cable/DSL Router, and the distribution throught the house is done Ethernet style.

The following link will provide an actual description: Physical Home Networking

HOW TO TERMINATE & ASSEMBLE KEYSTONE JACKS

You can buy in Home depot, or on line here:

http://www.9thtee.com/networking.htm

 

[DarkSanta]

If this is new construction and pre-drywall, your friend would be well advised to run Cat5 or higher grade cabling throughout his house, and then home run everything to a central point (like a basement as bazookatone pointed out). Where is the CATV/SAT and the phone line coming into the house? Wherever that is, perhaps that would be the best place to centralize everything.

The DSL will come over the normal phone line and then into a DSL modem/router. If your friend only has phone connections in every room, then he has to move that DSL router to whatever room he wants to work in. If the DSL router were to be connected to a hub/switch which also serviced every room with Cat5 connections, then your friend would only need to plug his laptop/PC into the nearest available network/RJ45 port. He could also have multiple computers using the DSL line at the same time. Being forward thinking, your friend could then plug in some of the newer A/V Internet-ready equipment into a port, or home appliances (e.g. refrigerator), etc. Even without DSL as a consideration, however, with new construction it would be worth running all the network cabling so that you could at least have a home network for gaming, servers, or whatever without running long cables across the carpet.

 

[bobcpg]

Yes, If i was building my house i would spend the 65$ on 1000` of cat5e cable and wire all the rooms, bedroom, bath, kitchen, and living. And then run them all down to the basement or some other central location like bazook said. That might even be a good reselling point later.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

Originally posted by: bobcpg
Yes, If i was building my house i would spend the 65$ on 1000` of cat5e cable and wire all the rooms, bedroom, bath, kitchen, and living. And then run them all down to the basement or some other central location like bazook said. That might even be a good reselling point later.

Actually it increases the value ranging between $500-2500 in most cases. depending on how many rooms are wired, and how big the house is.