In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Set Square wrote:

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]

Well, it *looked* like a link in the previous message before I submitted it!
It should have been http://www.clarity.it/telecoms/adsl_faceplate_mod.htm

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Cheers,
Set Square
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