Yes Neil and Rosemary, I believe you're correct there Neil. Depending how handy you are, you could buy yourself a long length of Cat 6 cable to run from your NBN box to a wall point (new or old) for a dedicated connection between router and NBN box. I did this for my sons room at the back of my house - 30m Cat 6 for direct connection to an Apple Airport Express for local Wifi signal strength in his room.
If not so handy, then use one of these guys. I did a Google search "domestic internet cabling perth" which gave lots of hits. Here's one. https://www.perthservices.com.au/phones-data-cabling/?gad_source=1&gcli d=CjwKCAiAvJarBhA1EiwAGgZl0IN9YUVwtwDKMY5VPy7200vPOBSvhcAqJyYYyGTf8Hzzq Pnu6U39nBoCaJcQAvD_BwE Hopefully this helps. Kind Regards Peter Crisp ----- Original Message ----- From: "WAMUG" <wa...@lists.wamug.org.au> To: "WAMUG" <wa...@lists.wamug.org.au> Cc: "Neil Houghton" <n...@possumology.com> Sent: Wed, 29 Nov 2023 14:20:23 +0800 Subject: Re: [WAMUG] NBN fibre questions Hi Rosemary, I'm no expert here but my reasoning is: The fact that you get the speed you are expecting when the modem is plugged direct to the NBN box would suggest that the problem is not with your modem but with the cabling/network between the NBN box and the wall socket. You say that there is cabling from the garage to "other places" in the house – from your description, these are phone outlets rather than ethernet outlets and you then connect from this wall socket to the DSL port on the modem? More than one phone outlet means that there would be at least one splitter somewhere to split the signal to the various phone outlets. The splitter(s) could be in the garage or in the ceiling and could well be the problem – you really need the modem connection to the NBN box to be as direct as possible. I suspect the simplest/easiest solution is to have the router plugged directly into the NBN box in the garage and then setup the wireless network of the router so everything connects to that – you would need to check that you get good wireless coverage from the garage to wherever you need it in the house (depending on the house size/construction you might need a wireless extender or a modem with better wireless performance. If you need to have the modem elsewhere (eg in the study) make sure you have a single good connection between there and the NBN box – how easy this is to achieve really will depend on the actual physical configuration and accessibility of your existing network/cabling. Just some thoughts HTH. Cheers Neil -- Neil Houghton Albany Western Australia -----Original Message----- From: WAMUG <wamug-boun...@lists.wamug.org.au> on behalf of Rosemary Spark via WAMUG <wa...@lists.wamug.org.au> Reply-To: WAMUG <wa...@lists.wamug.org.au> Date: Tuesday, 28 November 2023 at 20:40 To: WAMUG <wa...@lists.wamug.org.au> Cc: Rosemary Spark <arkaysp...@gmail.com> Subject: [WAMUG] NBN fibre questions Hi all, We have just upgraded to NBN Fibre to the Premises. The speed we get with the modem attached straight to the NBN box is about 10 times faster than when it is connected to the wall socket in the study. Our house is 61/2 years old and was cabled from the garage to other places in the house when we bought it. The westnet/ iiNet guy said the cabling might be too old to carry fibre speeds. The present wall socket in the study just looks like a phone socket but it does carry the signal to the modem albeit slowly. The distance is not great …it goes up from the NBN box in the garage in conduit to the ceiling, presumably in the ceiling and down the wall in the study next door. What sort of professional would be able to re-cable so the speed was maintained to the study? Would a more uptodate modem also help maintain better speeds? The present one is an iiNet black TG model. Cheers Rosemary Spark PO Box 781 South Fremantle WA 6162 Australia 0414268043 [1]arkaysp...@gmail.com References 1. mailto:arkaysp...@gmail.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <https://www.mail-archive.com/wamug@wamug.org.au/> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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