Hello fellow home builders,
We are currently planning the electrical installation for our new build, including LAN and telephone connections. I have already read a lot but haven’t found a satisfactory answer for our exact situation online. Your assessment would be very helpful:
We have a utility room in the basement where, naturally, the phone line from the telecom provider enters. If I understand correctly, a telecom standard telephone outlet (TAE socket) is always installed there? And the line belongs to the telecom provider up to that point?
We want to install the network wiring in the utility room, but the router is planned to be located on the ground floor. We have a spot where we are quite sure there will be Wi-Fi coverage where it’s needed. So we planned to install a power outlet and four LAN ports there. One port would bring the signal from the TAE socket in the basement to the router, and three would go back down to the patch panel/switch. Essentially, I would prefer to run a cable from the telephone outlet to the patch panel and then up to the router.
My main question is: Is this possible? Can a network cable carry the two-wire DSL signal, and if so, which adapters would I need? How should the two wires be connected to the patch panel?
Or is our electrician right in saying that we need an (additional) TAE socket where the router will be? According to him, everything else would be complicated and require a custom cable... We would actually like to avoid having a TAE socket on the ground floor, both for aesthetic reasons and flexibility (maybe the router will be moved at some point).
Thanks for your help and experiences...
Good luck, Björn
We are currently planning the electrical installation for our new build, including LAN and telephone connections. I have already read a lot but haven’t found a satisfactory answer for our exact situation online. Your assessment would be very helpful:
We have a utility room in the basement where, naturally, the phone line from the telecom provider enters. If I understand correctly, a telecom standard telephone outlet (TAE socket) is always installed there? And the line belongs to the telecom provider up to that point?
We want to install the network wiring in the utility room, but the router is planned to be located on the ground floor. We have a spot where we are quite sure there will be Wi-Fi coverage where it’s needed. So we planned to install a power outlet and four LAN ports there. One port would bring the signal from the TAE socket in the basement to the router, and three would go back down to the patch panel/switch. Essentially, I would prefer to run a cable from the telephone outlet to the patch panel and then up to the router.
My main question is: Is this possible? Can a network cable carry the two-wire DSL signal, and if so, which adapters would I need? How should the two wires be connected to the patch panel?
Or is our electrician right in saying that we need an (additional) TAE socket where the router will be? According to him, everything else would be complicated and require a custom cable... We would actually like to avoid having a TAE socket on the ground floor, both for aesthetic reasons and flexibility (maybe the router will be moved at some point).
Thanks for your help and experiences...
Good luck, Björn
I need to ask the experts about this. The phone line in our house will be installed in the utility room. Fiber to the home. If that’s important. However, I don’t want the router (Fritzbox) to be there. It needs to go in the office. Not only does it provide Wi-Fi for the tablet and PC there, but it also has to support a corded phone with a cordless handset and a fax machine. I need and want all of that. None of that belongs in the utility room. So, does the router really have to be connected directly to the telecom outlet, or can the electrician use it more like a pass-through and put the router in the office for me? Sorry for the amateur questions, but this really isn’t my area of expertise.
This is actually exactly my question. Based on the answers already given, you simply replace the cable currently connecting the TAE socket and the router inside the distribution box with a network cable, connect it to the LAN outlet near the router, and then plug the router into the LAN outlet.
Hello,
why does the router have to be placed there? Keep the router in the utility room and connect it to the switch. Then run a LAN cable to an access point. With PoE, you won’t need a power supply there either.
If it’s about the phone, etc., that should also work without any problems over LAN.
Regards,
Christian
why does the router have to be placed there? Keep the router in the utility room and connect it to the switch. Then run a LAN cable to an access point. With PoE, you won’t need a power supply there either.
If it’s about the phone, etc., that should also work without any problems over LAN.
Regards,
Christian
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