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Is there a problem with moving a desktop farther away from the phone jack?

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doctorm:
i didnt know how to best word it but right now i have my desktop sitting rigth in front of the phone jack to use the dsl and wireless modem.

i plan on moving the desktop away from the jack to a far spot across the room. the options i have now are to either use a longer phone cord and set evewrything up on the new table or use a longer ethernet cord and keep the modem on the table it is now. the reason im asking this is bc i thought i had heard that if you make one of the cords longer, the speed lowers or something idk. just wanted to double check on here first before i made a move.

so any advice or suggestions? also if you have a better way to do this i would appreciate the input. thanks

ngkee22:
You should be able to do both with out and speed differences.  I have used a longer phone line and used a longer Ethernet cable and both work just fine.  You shouldn't notice any changes. 

Right now, I have my desktop using a wireless card.  I do notice a speed drop when using wireless instead of the wired connection.  For some reason, my apartment complex puts the DSL router in the closet in a metal breaker box panel in the wall, so I can't use wired connection any more.  I would move it, but the router also feeds the cable, so that is the only place for the cable connections.  I'm not sure why they decided to place it there, I can tell a big difference in speed and reliability.

MrPlacid:
I heard the same thing, but my dsl came into the wrong room so I had to install a long extension from that room to my room. I saw no difference at all.

alm:
Ethernet will work fine up to 100m of solid wire (30m or so with stranded wire) without any speed loss. DSL is a (fairly) high speed digital protocol over old phone lines that were not designed for it, so it uses different parts of the spectrum, depending on noise and loss. It's more sensitive to changes in the line (longer lines may lower the max speed). So it's unlikely that using a long ethernet cable causes any degradation, but it's quite possible that the DSL connection will train at lower speeds or becomes less stable. If the current noise margin is high enough and the distance is not too far, it probably won't cause any problems. I would use proper twisted cable for the phone line, not the untwisted black wire you use to connect a (wired) telephone to the wall outlet.

RayJones:
If you think about the total length of your phone connection from the exchange, then adding another 10m becomes insignificant.

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