Moving internet connection point into another room

[heidipi]

Hi - just wondering if anyone has done this. Our internet connection was installed in what was our office, but is now DD's room. We have a wireless router so it's not a massive problem but have had to move it high up out of her way and it's a pain if we need to switch it off and on again after she's asleep. I want to get it moved, DP just grumbles that it would be a big hassle (we had new carpet laid after the connection was put in so part of the cable is under it) but I think it should be do-able and makes no sense to have it where it is.

Does anyone have experience of doing this, successfully or otherwise, and what kind of chap would I need to get in to do it?!

Thanks in advance.

The router needs to be connected to a phone point. The best is the master socket which is the one BT wire up. So if the master socket is in your DD's room then I'd have to agree with your DP on this one.

If you really REALLY want to move it then you will need a telecoms guy to come and move the socket. You can find people who can extend the wiring inside the house but it will be a hassle if you want the cable to be hidden.

I'm not sure about your router but I turn mine off like once every 6 months. Otherwise it just stays on. In that context it simply doesn't make sense to go to a lot of hassle to move it.

There are two ways of doing it. You can either move the phone socket itself or you can get the cable that goes from the router to the phone socket extended. The latter is usually sold as an "ADSL cable" and has RJ11 connectors at each end. Eg, this.

When I first had broadband installed, BT ran in an ADSL extension cable from the master phone socket to where I wanted the router to go. At the router end there is a small wall-mounted (well, not so much "mounted" as "stuck to the wall with double-sided tape") RJ11 socket. It's worked like that ever since. If you want to do it neatly you can get wall-mounted RJ11 sockets easily enough and they're pretty straight forward to install.

Thanks for the replies - niceguy we switch it off and back on again when we lose the wireless connection, which is a few times a week at the moment, not sure if that's a router problem, but maybe that would be easier to solve than moving it.

Thanks too snorbs, am using a cable just like that now because the wifi's on the blink this morning so it's trailing up the stairs. I'll see if we could do what you suggest but maybe DP is right, just a hassle that we can't move the furniture in DD's room because a high cupboard needs to be in that particular spot to put the routers on!

I think we have learnt that if we ever move house and do it again we just put it in the kitchen.

Thanks again

When it's 'on the blink', does it stop working for all your devices (eg. smartphone & laptop) or just laptop?

Does switching router on/off always fix the problem?

If so then it may be simply easier to replace the dodgy router than go to the hassle/expense of moving the router & cabling.

A new ADSL router can be had for as little as £25. That said, wireless issues can also be fixed by changing channels as sometimes you get conflicts with neighbours. Especially nowadays where a lot of people have Sky or BT broadband who are all on the same channels

We did this as we need a wired connection as well as wireless (bloody dp and his COD playing) and we didn't want wires trailing out of dds room. Got someone from virgin media to do it, it cost £100, all he did was run an extension cable through the loft and back down into another room - afterwards dp said he could have done it himself if he knew that was all there was to it!

Thanks for the extra replies.

Niceguy - yes it is all devices, laptop and phone. Usually switching the router off and on again works, so maybe replacing that would be the best and most effective options.

Hazelnut - thanks for the tip, we'll try to avoid that!

Thanks again

OP have you tried these as a solution?

Our router is upstairs and if we're wireless and the same happens, we just push the button.

not that I'm lazy!

Flying Ooh! Now that is handy, thanks!

lol, i did also think about those remote plugs but for the cost of them you may as well fix the root cause which seems to be a dodgy router. There's not a lot of price difference between a remote controlled plug socket and a new router.

Very true, but we now have so many other things on them