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Bt hub badly placed

Bjscc1989 — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 13:34:41 GMT

Good morning everyone, I live in a coach house with 2 floors, the bottom floor is the garage and the second floor is the living area, recently had an engineer come round to Instal the full fibre package (wifi only) with the hub 2, and he placed the hub on the bottom floor at the entrance, my question is, is there anyway I could get it on the top floor where the signal would be better? Is there anyway I could get BT to provide longer fibre cable? Or any other solution? Thank you for your help

Re: Bt hub badly placed

licquorice — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 13:41:54 GMT

A longer fibre cable is not required. The ONT (fibre modem) can remain where it is and you can simply run a Cat5e Ethernet cable from the ONT to the relocated hub.

If you don't wish to run a cable, you can connect the hub to the ONT via powerline adapters but you may not get the full speed.

Re: Bt hub badly placed

Bjscc1989 — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 13:49:43 GMT

Thank you for the Quick reply, do you know where I could get cat5e Ethernet cable from, I reckon id need at least 10 meters worth of cable!

Re: Bt hub badly placed

Carlusha — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 13:56:44 GMT

@Bjscc1989wrote:
Thank you for the Quick reply, do you know where I could get cat5e Ethernet cable from, I reckon id need at least 10 meters worth of cable!

Usual place, sounds like a long, large South American river. We're not allowed advertising here!

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Alternatively, a perhaps a little pricier, your usual electrical shop which sounds like eastern hot stuff!

Re: Bt hub badly placed

gspearson — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 14:00:44 GMT

or the Station that has Tools or the place to get Screws fixed - they have this stuff.

Re: Bt hub badly placed

Bjscc1989 — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 14:01:44 GMT

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Thank you so much for your help

Re: Bt hub badly placed

licquorice — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 14:35:08 GMT

@gspearson @Carlusha

It is perfectly within forum rules to name Amazon etc, just not to post a link to items.

Re: Bt hub badly placed

Carlusha — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 15:50:50 GMT

@licquoricewrote:
@gspearson @Carlusha
It is perfectly within forum rules to name Amazon etc, just not to post a link to items.

Thank you, @licquorice !

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Re: Bt hub badly placed

Bjscc1989 — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 16:09:33 GMT

Any advice on what cable to buy?

Re: Bt hub badly placed

licquorice — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 16:18:49 GMT

Any Cat5e Ethernet cable will be suitable. If you are not confident in buying the cable and fitting the RJ45 connectors at each end youself, just buy a patch lead of the requisite length.

The most elegant solution would be to fit an Ethernet socket at each end and run the cable between the sockets, then connect the ONT to one socket and the hub to the other using short patch leads.

ONT --patch cord-- Socket1 -----cable------Socket2--patch cord--Hub

Re: Bt hub badly placed

Keith_Beddoe — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 16:20:05 GMT

@Bjscc1989 wrote:

Any advice on what cable to buy?

It depend on how long you need it. There are plenty available from many retailers. Whichever is easiest for you.

Re: Bt hub badly placed

pippincp — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 19:13:17 GMT

You can get a cat5e 10 metre cable for about £5 from ebay.

Re: Bt hub badly placed

Bjscc1989 — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 14:29:04 GMT

Does anyone know if it affects the speed at all, buying a 10 meter ethernet cable?

Re: Bt hub badly placed

Keith_Beddoe — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 14:36:22 GMT

@Bjscc1989 wrote:

Does anyone know if it affects the speed at all, buying a 10 meter ethernet cable?

No, provides it good quality with all wires connected.