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I’d check with your supplier on the latter. It’s exactly what I did, but they wanted theirs back and sent a man in a van to collect it. You might get a bill if you just toss it, it’s their property.
They wanted the one they sent me (by mistake) back, and the one my FiL had, they wanted that back.
No idea why, the routers probably only cost about 10 quid each. (and they wanted 5 or 6 quid a month as a "service contract" on them.)
Probably something to do with disposal of electronics.
Good stuff.
There's no proplem running longer ethernet cables in most domestic environments... assuming the cable legnth is 'sensible'...
I can't imagine many sceanarios when you'd need to run more than a 20 or 30m cable, never mind 50m+...it's a more reliable way of doing it as you're not relying on wi-fi or power adaptors or anything like that... you should basicaly get full speed all the time.
We run twin 50m CAT-5 cables down to the workshop at the end of the garden...
Why twin? is it the distance or a redundant one incase one fails?
Not going to lie that turned into a more epic afternoon than expected - especially as there was mission creep and I ended up deep cleaning the sitting room in the process! Anyway, I avoided putting the carpet grippers through the Ethernet cable, and hard wired several other devices in too. Success!! Thanks all.
I know it’s all done now, but as someone else mentioned on the first page, you can extend the fibre “passively” and run that (much thinner) cable to wherever you want to have the ONT. One advantage of this is you don’t need power near the original location where they bring the fibre into the house. I’ve moved my ONT to a cabinet where I have a UPS, router, switch etc. You need a fibre “coupler” and a length of fibre preterminated to the length you need (or longer, you can coil the slack).