Disclaimer: None of this is written by AI, I’m still a real person writing my own blog like its 1999 I finally figured out how to do Gigabit Ethernet over my existing phone wires. Powerline adapter…
The cables are often not run in ducts they’re just tacked to the studwork in the house before the plasterboard goes up. This means any new cable is basically a fresh install.
I couldn’t tell reading the post, but they may be renting instead of owning? They likely can’t do bigger construction tasks like that, so they’re forced to use what they have.
It wouldn’t matter because 4 pair ethernet cable can still transport 2 pair phone signals just fine (if not better), so he could just replace the the sockets back to the old RJ11 ones and the landland wouldn’t ever know that anything was changed.
Either way, reading at the other replies, it seems that houses in UK don’t actually use ducts to pass the cables so replacing the cable is nearly impossible. Didn’t know that.
That’s interesting, but those boxes seem rather expensive, wouldn’t it be cheaper to just pull ethernet cable over the phone installation?
The cables are often not run in ducts they’re just tacked to the studwork in the house before the plasterboard goes up. This means any new cable is basically a fresh install.
Most UK house construction doesn’t really allow for retrofitting cables in the way that seems to be common in the the US
Even US houses above a certain age have the same problem.
I couldn’t tell reading the post, but they may be renting instead of owning? They likely can’t do bigger construction tasks like that, so they’re forced to use what they have.
It wouldn’t matter because 4 pair ethernet cable can still transport 2 pair phone signals just fine (if not better), so he could just replace the the sockets back to the old RJ11 ones and the landland wouldn’t ever know that anything was changed.
Either way, reading at the other replies, it seems that houses in UK don’t actually use ducts to pass the cables so replacing the cable is nearly impossible. Didn’t know that.