Selecting phone line for DSL service?

[GemStater]

Most of my old land line phone cable has been neutered from my house because I thought I'd never use it. Now the phone company has given me a good incentive to try their latest DSL service. I believe the phone company will install the necessary phone line but I imagine it will be on the exterior of my house like what the old phone line was. I'd rather keep phone line off the exterior of my house and run it internally, myself. Some of the line would be external, but most would run internal.

So my question is: Is there a certain type or quality of phone line that will best suite my application?

 

[The_Jeff]

Cat5e ethernet cable is great; just use a twisted pair or two and leave the rest. If you don't need landline service leave the rest of the house disconnected lest a corroded connection lower your throughput.

I would set up the DSL modem close to the service entrance for best signal, then Cat-5 the signal to a central location for your wifi/router.

 

[simple_gifts]

OT: keep in mind if you have inside house wiring (and your dsl provider is like mine) they will often try to blame service problems on "inside wiring" and charge to debug it. This is specifically why I have an outside line thru a window to my modem; if I have issues I throw and extension cord out the window and put all my equipment into a plastic tub, enabling the guy to debug the entire issue without my being there or letting him into the house and without trying to pin it on "inside wiring"

I have Frontier BTW

 

[Donald]

DSL can run via the same pair of wires used for a old landline phone. Actually at the same time. The old landline phone gets an inline DSL filter. The DSL service is just a plain connection using normal phone wire.

I moved my DSL modem to a feet from the phone company network box. I bought a high quality wireless to cover my house from that basement area where the DSL modem is.

I should say DSL means digital subscriber link. It more of a type of connection. It's not limited to the [censored] DSL we are getting now from phone companies.

Your DSL speed is based upon how far you are from a phone company switch. Max of 18000 feet.

I have 4 MB service that is bonded (2 circuits). I am 10000 feet from the switch.

 

[Donald]

I also have my DSL model and wireless router on a UPS so I can call the power company in the event of a blackout.

They seem to provide really junky DSL modems. Not sure if you can provide your own. I am probably on my 6th DSL modem in 5 years.

 

[GemStater]

Originally Posted By: eljefino
I would set up the DSL modem close to the service entrance for best signal, then Cat-5 the signal to a central location for your wifi/router.


This is my dilemma. I very easily put my DSL modem to within 3-feet of the service entrance. This makes things difficult because my Ethernet hub is currently at the opposite end of the house and I have a finished basement, so not exactly a simple proposition to run the Cat-5 to it.

 

[GemStater]

Originally Posted By: Donald
They seem to provide really junky DSL modems. Not sure if you can provide your own. I am probably on my 6th DSL modem in 5 years.


Yes, the Modem. This is my other quandary. Help me out here: https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/4376433#Post4376433

 

[The_Jeff]

Originally Posted By: GemStater
my Ethernet hub is currently at the opposite end of the house and I have a finished basement, so not exactly a simple proposition to run the Cat-5 to it.



Does your house work for you, or does it own you?

If you have vinyl siding, you can just run the wire under it, all the way around the house. If it's hidden from UV it'll last long enough.

 

[sleddriver]

I used CAT5 when I rewired my house several years ago, because I already had a 1000' spool. You don't need the latest/greatest/most expensive. Don't have basements here, so I had to pull & fish through attic and down walls. In a finished basement, you can easily hide wire behind mouldings & trim. Just don't kink it.

 

[alarmguy]

Quite honestly, why not get the best, most robust direct burial phone line possible?
By doing this you will ensure years of trouble free DSL service as clean connections are so needed with DSL for highest speed.

It does not matter that you will not be burying the line but using direct burial is nice well made robust line.
Its a one time cost so why be cheap? how much difference will it be, I have no idea, $20 ?

Also put snap on Ferrite Filters on EVERYTHING connected to the modem and router for as clean as possible signal as can be. (google it) This is for ANY internet modem and router, not just DSL.

Here is an example

 

[mk378]

Run a direct cat 5 from the phone NID (the connection box on the outside wall) to the modem. If there is also analog phone service on the line, I like to split once, put a DSL filter directly after the split then run all the existing phone wire from the filtered line. Dodgy wiring that is after a filter will not affect your DSL service.