[SOLVED] DSL to Fiber

[tbarzee]

So I recently switched from DSL to Fiber and the wireless connection has been a bit poor downstairs. I do have the DSL wall jacks in every room. Is it possible to use a dsl to cat5 adapter for these wall jacks so I can just wire in whenever I need to? Or is this simply not how it works?

 

[bill001g]

Maybe but you have to get lucky.

The wires for DSL are phone wires. Now sometimes they use ethernet cable but even that is not that simple. Many times phone jacks are wires daisy chain. Ethernet are point to point.

SO
If all the wire run to 1 central location and the wire is ethernet you likely can switch the jacks out on each end for rj45.

 

[tbarzee]

Maybe but you have to get lucky.

The wires for DSL are phone wires. Now sometimes they use ethernet cable but even that is not that simple. Many times phone jacks are wires daisy chain. Ethernet are point to point.

SO
If all the wire run to 1 central location and the wire is ethernet you likely can switch the jacks out on each end for rj45.

The fiber was installed at the base box outside of the house. The dsl wire box is in the basement downstairs. So i guess it would work then?

 

[bill001g]

The location of the boxes are not as important as the wires in the wall and where they go.

 

[tbarzee]

The location of the boxes are not as important as the wires in the wall and where they go.

So it turns out, the cables in the wall are all cat5, but there's no internet coming through. So now I'm back to square one with this bs.

 

[USAFRet]

So it turns out, the cables in the wall are all cat5, but there's no internet coming through. So now I'm back to square one with this bs.

You need to discover where the other end of those room cables are.