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flashowl · 01-07-2011, 13:45

Hello everybody! Can you help with this scenario?

I have wireless modem/router on the ground floor. Two floors up on the attic I have my office computer. The wireless connection isn't great so I bought a powerline kit but that didn't work because the attic is on a different power loop.

However the previous owners of the property had their modem/router in the attic (not something I want to do). To facilitate this they had run a modem cable (that's how I would describe it - RJ11 I'm guessing) from the ground floor to the attic.

Does anyone know if I could facilitate the use of this cable by putting a RJ11/RJ45 converter on either end to use it like CAT5?

01-07-2011, 13:45	#1
flashowl Inactive Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 3	Using a modem cable as CAT5 Hello everybody! Can you help with this scenario? I have wireless modem/router on the ground floor. Two floors up on the attic I have my office computer. The wireless connection isn't great so I bought a powerline kit but that didn't work because the attic is on a different power loop. However the previous owners of the property had their modem/router in the attic (not something I want to do). To facilitate this they had run a modem cable (that's how I would describe it - RJ11 I'm guessing) from the ground floor to the attic. Does anyone know if I could facilitate the use of this cable by putting a RJ11/RJ45 converter on either end to use it like CAT5?