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Default Linking BT master terminal to distant router

About to instal broadband. The BT terminal is at the top of the house
in an attic, whilst the wireless router will be on the ground floor.
It is planned to supplement the wireless channel with direct CAt5
cabling to some rooms.

There will be a master filter just after the BT terminal & the existing
telephones will branch out from there.

The plan is run the unfiltered (ADSL) telephone (AB) line downstairs to
the router using CAT5 cable.


Q1 Assuming that is OK, which are the correct colours to use in the
CAT5 cable?


Q2 Is it correct that each RJ45 socketed ethernet channel on the router
only require 3 wires ? If so, can the unused 6 wires in the CAT5 cable
be used to feed a RJ45 socket to the router? - if so, which cable
colours carry the signals?


ie like this:

master
BT master ----ADSL filter --unfiltered signal-[CAT5
cable]-------------------RJ11 -------router
I
socket
I
I------filtered telephone lines[existing
telephone cabling]




RJ45 ------[CAT5 cable}--------------- RJ45
--[patch lead]---- router

wall socket wall socket



As this apparently leaves spare wires, would it be possible to feed
the filtered telephone line down this same piece of CAT5?


also any comments on practicality most welcome

TIA