Infinty in Kitchen - Hub in Study - ethernet cable...

Infinity is being installed on 8 May. The master socket is in the kitchen - the line comes in that way. My study, where all the comms and PC stuff is is next door, so 10 metres of cable can easily connect them - big cellar below. If I put in a length of Cat5 cable between the two rooms, will the engineer use that - modem in kitchen, Hub in study, or do I rehash that when he has gone? Just ordinary ethernet cable or something special - with usual plugs on each end?
Our TV is a long way off upstairs and I can connect to it via Homeplugs - if I were to get Youview would that work?
Geoff

If the modem in the kitchen near the current master works for you, which you say it does, that sounds the best solution. You are always going to have more loss with extra on the VDSL path rather than the ethernet path.
The main thing for the installer is changing the master or its faceplate, and installing the modem near to it. He'll show you things with the HomeHub and your computer plugged in. No need for that, but it does help confirm it is all working.
If you have a convenient laptop you can bring to the kitchen, I would get him to install it and put the HomeHub near the modem and do the demo test with the laptop. When it is all established that works and he goes, move the HomeHub to the study via your new ethernet cable.
Disconnecting and doing things with the HomeHub is fine. Try to leave the modem connection to the master as is and do not do anything to the modem (other than change the ethernet cable to LAN1), as that can upset DLM.
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Wireless might just do streamed video (if your TV can use wireless anyway).
Homeplugs should certainly work unless you are very unlucky with the mains.
You need 500Mbps ones to get the most out of Infinity. 200Mbps ones should be more than enough for streamed video. The actual speed you get from Homplugs is always way below the rated speed.
I found (after reading another post on this forum) that using Homeplug in a twin socket with computer equipment in the other half of the twin significantly degrades performance. Try never to use them on an extension, and certainly not on a power surge extension.

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I could go on. But you have your own belief, not establish but supporting evidence, and spending money for a marginal difference. Do you understand the physics behind the gold plating? Well, I do, and I reject it, based on both the physical chemistry of the metals and, of course, the physics. Again, if you ran gold from one end to the other, then maybe you could convince me of a marginal difference in conductivity of the electrons, but because the gating material will be the copper/aluminum/steel or whatever is used before the gold plated ends, there will be no difference. Morever, the quality of signal is dependent on other factors including length of the cable, which impacts resistance (see metals above). This is basic basic basic Physics 101.
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