Ethernet Installation Pricing

[Callum1243]

Hi im moving into a new two story home and my office will be upstairs however it only has a phone jack in the room. A couple of questions, first is it possible to convert a phone port to an ethernet port. Second how much do you think it would cost to wire in an ethernet jack up to the second story. 

Thanks Callum  

 

PS: I live in california 

[Noxxx]

it's not possible to "convert" phone jack to ethernet port, but if you get DSL internet (as oppose to cable internet), you can ask the ISP to install the modem in your office room

[techguru]

its not hard to wire a home with ethernet....you can do it yourself in an afternoon with like 50$ worth of tools (long as you have a drill already)

[abbasmo2]

LOL you cant do that. Youll need a modem from your ISP that will give you DSL from the phone jack and from the modem you can run you ethernet. From what i remember 100ft of ethernet will give you much better connection then wifi. In terms of cost

http://www.amazon.com/Mediabridge-Cat5e-Ethernet-Patch-Cable/dp/B003RCEAB8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1431753992&sr=8-1&keywords=100ft+ethernet+cable

 

Thats a start ^

[W-L]

Hi im moving into a new two story home and my office will be upstairs however it only has a phone jack in the room. A couple of questions, first is it possible to convert a phone port to an ethernet port. Second how much do you think it would cost to wire in an ethernet jack up to the second story. 

Thanks Callum  

 

PS: I live in california 

 

It depends on the home since most new ones nowadays use CAT5e even for phone lines if it's wired correctly you may be able to but I doubt its. Pulling cable isn't hard but depending on where you want it, you will most likely need to punch a few holes to pull the cable.

[TheGeeker]

LOL you cant do that. Youll need a modem from your ISP that will give you DSL from the phone jack and from the modem you can run you ethernet. From what i remember 100ft of ethernet will give you much better connection then wifi. In terms of cost

http://www.amazon.com/Mediabridge-Cat5e-Ethernet-Patch-Cable/dp/B003RCEAB8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1431753992&sr=8-1&keywords=100ft+ethernet+cable

 

Thats a start ^

And then what? Drill two holes through every wall to the modem? 

[SonoDanshi]

Re-purposing phone wire for data is technically possible as 10mbps network connections only require 4 wires. You could just buy some RJ45 wall plates for either end of the cable and have a very slow wired connection in your office.

 

Other alternatives would be to use the phone line to pull some cat5/6 cable through the wall replacing the phone line with proper wiring, going wifi or using PoE.

[TheGeeker]

It depends on the home since most new ones nowadays use CAT5e even for phone lines if it's wired correctly you may be able to but I doubt its. Pulling cable isn't hard but depending on where you want it, you will most likely need to punch a few holes to pull the cable.

They are totally different 

[techguru]

And then what? Drill two holes through every wall to the modem? 

wall cavity or attic or heating ducts

[W-L]

They are totally different 

-PIC-

 

Yeah I know they are different a lot of new homes now use CAT 5e wire itself to wire as phone line since it's so cheap. My home is all wired in CAT 5e for all the home phone lines and ethernet and use the RJ45 jack that's is backwards compatible with RJ11 for the wall plates.

Edited May 16, 2015 by W-L

[TheGeeker]

wall cavity or attic or heating ducts

Much work. 

[SonoDanshi]

They are totally different 

The connectors are yes, but the wire grade is basically identical and it comes down to how many wires you need for the connector. @W-L is simply saying some homes are now built using cat5/5e cables for telephone lines and they simply ignore the extra wires.

[abbasmo2]

And then what? Drill two holes through every wall to the modem? 

ye what else..... Its what i did. I have a 60 ft cat 6 cable running from two rooms down and made a perfect hole through the walls to reach my pc. The holes are clean and small

[W-L]

Hi im moving into a new two story home and my office will be upstairs however it only has a phone jack in the room. A couple of questions, first is it possible to convert a phone port to an ethernet port. Second how much do you think it would cost to wire in an ethernet jack up to the second story. 

Thanks Callum  

 

PS: I live in california 

 

Alternatively without running any cables you can get a powerline adapter they use your home existing electrical wiring as a data cable for ethernet to another power plug in the home. It works well for most cases as long as the wiring in the home isn't very old.

[Callum1243]

Alternatively without running any cables you can get a powerline adapter they use your home existing electrical wiring as a data cable for ethernet to another power plug in the home. It works well for most cases as long as the wiring in the home isn't very old.

Ive heard that you can get interference when high drawing appliances are turned on such as washing machines or vacuum cleaners are used. Is that true or is that only on older technology? 

[W-L]

Ive heard that you can get interference when high drawing appliances are turned on such as washing machines or vacuum cleaners are used. Is that true or is that only on older technology? 

 

From my understanding it shouldn't affect it since it generates another signal on a different frequency range that they feed into the electrical wiring that the two units use to communicate but I've never used one before so I wouldn't know if high draw appliances would cause issues. 

 

Also most high draw appliances are on their own dedicated circuits so I would think it wouldn't be an issue.

[dzonidev]

it's not possible to "convert" phone jack to ethernet port, but if you get DSL internet (as oppose to cable internet), you can ask the ISP to install the modem in your office room

 

False.

 

LOL you cant do that. Youll need a modem from your ISP that will give you DSL from the phone jack and from the modem you can run you ethernet. From what i remember 100ft of ethernet will give you much better connection then wifi. In terms of cost

http://www.amazon.com/Mediabridge-Cat5e-Ethernet-Patch-Cable/dp/B003RCEAB8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1431753992&sr=8-1&keywords=100ft+ethernet+cable

 

Thats a start ^

 

LOL. False.

 

Re-purposing phone wire for data is technically possible as 10mbps network connections only require 4 wires. You could just buy some RJ45 wall plates for either end of the cable and have a very slow wired connection in your office.

 

Other alternatives would be to use the phone line to pull some cat5/6 cable through the wall replacing the phone line with proper wiring, going wifi or using PoE.

 

Finally true.

Most houses have CAT 3 for the phone lines.

A CAT 3 can run 10Mbps without any issues, and there were reports of people running a 100Mbps link with CAT 3 over short distances. Because as @SonoDanshi said 10/100 BASE-T utilizes only 2 pairs or four wires.

Now you could go and buy a bunch of CAT 6 cable and replace the phone line one with two CAT 6 but that's a big job and if you're not skilled you might end up making a mess.

 

In my opinion you should get a power-line adapter (suggested by @W-L, you can find decent ones for around $100 USD, something like the Netgear Powerline 1200 is a good choice, test showed it can reach ~400Mbps more than you could possibly need.