BT Infinity Home Extension Kit - Wall socket to Da...

Hi,
I have two lovely house rabbits that I want to throttle, although I've guarded their access to the area, have bitten through the cable from the wall socket to the data extension kit.
The cable between the two appears to be bespoke 2 pin RJ11 twisted pair cable for this purpose and the RJ11 cable I have that fits the socket is a 4 pin connection without a twisted pair doesn't work.
BT have been great as when I asked what the cable the guy who dealt with my call didn't know and just offered to send a cable pack, which is fantastic but I need some spares for a pre-emptive strike against the fluffly ones.
Anyone have any ideas? My google-fu is turning up lots of questions regarding the connection to the home hub.
Thanks in advance.

Its should be two or three pair cat5. You can use normal 4pair cat5, if you cant get hold of two pair. Only one pair is required if its a vdsl data extension for the infinity modem.

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Sometime in the future I intend to get BT Infinity, but just at the moment I am doing some building work where I would like to put in place the 30 meter data extension cable so it’s there ready.
Does anybody know where I can purchase the BT Infinity data extension kit?
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(corrected ... ryant 704 is quite right)
Put in cat5e or cat6 wiring. If that is terminated with telephone type connections it will act as a data extension kit.
Or it may be better (you didn't give details of your house arrangements) to keep the modem near the current master socket, and connect it via the same cable with ethernet termination to a remote router. There is always some speed loss from data extension kit (maybe trivially small), but shouldn't be any loss with a modem/router connection up to 100m or so.
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I am due to get BT Infinity installed and I anticipate I will need about 20m of the Data Extension Kit supplied during installation. Does use of this kit make any difference to the download\upload performance? I would be keen to hear of performance of people that use this kit.
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Performance will not degrade enough for you to notice, i have 3 20m extensions to 3 pc's across the house, all of them report 35mb download speeds without any loss of performance.
Using a Draytek Vigor 2820 router with the infinity modem going straight into it, i don't use the BT Homehub.
The extension is just a standard cat5 cable.
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A couple of years ago, whilst renovating the front room, I installed a NTE5 Master ADSL Adaptor and "BT Engineers ADSL Extension Kit" with a dual RJ11 (ADSL+telephone) socket. The extension cable is twisted pair but there are only 3 twisted pairs of wire. Can somebody please advise if this extension setup will work with BT Infinity. I hope it will as my main telephone socket is a corner of the room away from power. I don't mide changing sockets at either end but it's the bit in the middle I cannot easily change.
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The cable you have run, does it only have 3 twisted pairs or is it Cat5 cable with 4 but you have only used 3?
Would you be able to replace this cable with CAT5e if you could?
I have recently had Cat5e cable run from the connection plate were the BT cable come into the garage to my master socket so i would also like to know the answer to your question.
Id like to think that 3 TP cable would be enough since 4 TW will give you 100MB network and infinity is only around 30MB.
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Hi Next week all being well I have Infinity installed by an BT engineer. Can someone tell me please where the Open Reach Modem and the BT Home Hub will be placed. I would think that the Modem would be close to the entry into the property and the Home Hub close to the computer. The reason for asking is that I may go for BT Vision, and I would have to have a Ethernet link between the TV and Home Hub.
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The modem will usually be placed where your master socket is. They should move the master socket or add a data extension kit if asked; but some installers are unwilling to do so.
You can run and ethernet cable of any reasonable length between the modem and HomeHub: the installer won't do it for you. Similarly for any ethernet you may want from HomeHub to TV.
Depending on how much time you have, it may be best to keep the HomeHub near the modem for the initial install, as long as you have some device (laptop?) you can conveniently use to verify the install. Then move the HomeHub at your convenience later. Moving the modem after install is more of an issue, and any extra wiring involved could reduce your speeds.

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Im having Bt Infinity installed on thursday and I want to have Hub in the room upstairs where the pc is located.My master socket is downstairs in the hall. Im very confused after reading some entries on this forum. Is their a charge for installing the data extension kit or is it part of the free install ?? http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/9652 The information on this link seems to suggest their is a fee for any internal wiring work undertaken (data or telephone extensions). Is their any of the mods who can give me a definitive yes or no regarding a charge for this. Thanks

I had Infinity installed last week with a similar setup to what you describe. The OR guy made the existing extension socket upstairs the master and the downstairs socket which was the master an extension. He used a spare pair of cores in the existing extension cable to do this so no additional wiring as such was required. Everything works just as it should.

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Would this cost money to have the kit installed? I understand it is simply an Ethernet cable where the most standard cable can deliver speeds of 100mb which you can buy for £5.00 or less.
I just want to know as I would happily install it myself if this was the case...
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id just like to know like the subject says is the extension kit basically a ethernet cable with the plastic clips at either end.
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ok right so now im really confused so we dont know what we get till we get it.
The thing is im not gonna be in,ive gotta leave it to the missus to sort so need to get it right so she knows wot the deal is.
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All the engineer had to do was fit the Master socket and modem and plug the CAT5e cable in. He couldn't get his head around that and insisted the HH had to be next to the router and my CAT5e pulgged into that to the PC.
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