Moving router away from master socket - best solution?

[Brigadier]

Hello all,

Is there a best option for this particular set-up?

Router currently adj. to master socket.
PC on other side of dining room wirelessly connected to router. 5m from router.
TV (to which I currently run homeplugs) in lounge. 15m from router, 10 from PC.

I want to stream from PC to TV. I have loose-lain cat5 from PC to router, and router to TV, and it all works. But that's a lot of cabling tucked up in the corner, which looks unsightly.

I will be burying cat5 to the TV somewhere, and I reckon moving the router to behind the PC would be neatest. But how?

The only thing I can think of is new telephone extension point run from master to behind PC, with 2 pair telephone cable between the two. Then buried cat5 to TV from newly-positioned router.

Is there any reason NOT to do this? Is there a blindingly-obvious other / better way to achieve what I want / need?

Thanks in advance

 

[AlanFreeman]

There is no problem in using an extension socket from the phone line for your router. Mine is the other side of the house (including going via 2 slave sockets before the slave it is plugged into) and I get 12Mbts broadband!!

Don't forget you will need another filter for the extension, but that aside should work fine.

 

[bernardgreen]

There is no problem in using an extension socket from the phone line for your router.

Not if the ADSL signal arriving at the master socket is a strong one. If you are at the end of a long cable route from the telephone exchange and the ADSL signal is not a strong one then it is necessary to take care over the internal wiring.

I always advise separating phone and ADSL at the master socket using a filtered face plate. Then no matter how many sockets and spurs are used for telephones the phone wiring cannot have any significant affect on the broadband signal and speeds.