In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
jim_in_sussex wrote:

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

Rather than use a plug-in filter, I would use a Clarity modified filtered
faceplate in the master socket, as described at Clarity Modified Master
Faceplate You can then hardwire a digital extension into the back of that,
along with your normal telephone extension wiring. The digital extension
only requires one pair - so you could certainly use another one and a half
pairs in the same CAT5 cable for phone extensions. It's not a good idea to
mix ethernet with anything in the same cable though, so I would use
additional CAT5 cables for that. This will presumably need to be a star
setup, centred on your router, anyway.

[The above Clarity link *should* work - their website seems to be down at
the moment]

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