nicoll wrote:
I have run in cat5E cable from our stair cupboard to various rooms in the
house. I use these for a network and for our analogue telephone line
extensions.

The terminations are a bit of botch at the moment and I intend to fit a
small patch panel and terminate all cat5E cables in the panel. The remote
end of each cat 5 cable will be terminated in a RJ45 outlet.

Searching the web I'm struggling to find and easy way to patch our BT phone
lines to the panel.
I have found RJ45 plugs to BT sockets which would allow me to plug a phone
into a RJ45 outlet. But at the panel end I want the opposite a BT plug to
RJ45 socket to fit in the BT socket so I can then patch to the panel. Do
these things exist or is there and easier way to achieve what I want.

Secondly to connect my broadband router to the patch panel I'd like a RJ11
to RJ45 patch lead. At the moment I'm doing this with a two leads and a RJ11
to BT coupler connected to a BT to RJ45 coupler.

I hope if standard parts are available I won't have problems with connecting
the correct pairs.

Thanks for your help.




I have done the same sort of thing in our house. I ran cat5e all over
the place and while I was at it connected a run directly to the master
phone socket (it punches down just like phone wire). I now have a port
on the patch panel that acts as the master phone socket. That plugs into
a hub/splitter and I then simply patch in any of the Ethernet ports I
want to use as phone sockets. I admit I built the phone "hub" myself but
it was really easy just soldering a bunch of cables together and
sticking them in a box. Coloured socket covers are a very useful way of
stopping you from accidentally plugging computer equipment into phone
lines etc.