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Righto peeps,
I'm getting Virgin Media broadband installed on Tuesday. Simple enough.
Thing is, they're gonna drag the cable in through to the front of the house and my XBOX is upstairs. Where they put their boxes + equipment etc. is going to be where the router will be. We have a spare RJ11 socket there, if I were to connect an RJ11 to RJ45 cable to the router and the other end to the socket, and then do the same thing upstairs, but with the 360 on the other end, would it work?
The quality of copper wiring within the house is pretty decent, all changed 3 years ago, the wiring was kept the shortest length possible.

Please help me out on this people, I don't fancy buying those cables and having to return them etc. Nor do I want my 360 to be wireless, so all other suggestions are welcome.

Arien.

EDIT: It's a standard phone socket, the spare one. The RJ11 socket is in the filter, is that okay to use with cable?
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[ This Message was edited by: arien617 on 2008-07-20 08:21 ]
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Posted: 2008-07-20 00:40:32
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plug the 360 into your (winduhs pc) enable internet sharing and off you go
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Posted: 2008-07-20 02:58:03
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Hmm. Too slow, don't fancy having to power on the lappy, wait 3-4 mins for that to boot and then play. It's the only windoze pc in the house.
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Posted: 2008-07-20 09:20:21
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well. when you get your modem, you could always change the wires around and reset the modem... tis what i do
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Posted: 2008-07-20 15:23:51
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Explain?
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Posted: 2008-07-20 18:54:55
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Have I got this right? You want to use 2 DSL filters plugged into phone sockets with various adapters to connect a 360 to a router?

If so then no, I'm pretty sure that you can't do that. Although to be honest, I've never heard of anyone trying it...
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Posted: 2008-07-20 19:07:29
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Slight variation on that, I'm gonna totally replace the standard phone socket with an RJ45 socket and do the same upstairs.
Connect the router to the wall downstairs, through one of its ethernet out ports, and then do the same upstairs, from the wall to my 360.
It'll be:
Router -> Ethernet socket -> Copper wiring in house -> Ethernet out of my wall -> 360
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Posted: 2008-07-20 19:30:17
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ah right

good luck!
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Posted: 2008-07-20 19:46:29
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Thanks, but.. will it work?
In theory and in practise?
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Posted: 2008-07-20 19:49:03
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I dont think your house is setup for CAT5 so I doubt it will work. But what you might want to consider is HPNA (Home Phone Network Adaptors) or Powerline adaptors.

I would go with the powerline adaptors.

http://www.netgear.co.uk/wallplugged_ethernet_adapter_hdx101.php

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Posted: 2008-07-20 20:05:50
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