[aberdeenpaul]

Hi,
I am currently near completion of work on my house but i am stuck with how to wire up a patch panel.
I have cat 5e throughout the house and was going to put a BT point and a internet point at each room.
Firstly am i best to have these sockets as 1 RJ11 and 1 RJ45 at the walls in each room or better to keep them both RJ45?
At the cupboard housing the cat 5e cabling, patch panel, how do i wire in the main BT cable at the patch panel, where does it go?

Sorry for sounding rather stupid.

Then how do i make some points to be broadband points etc.?

[mrmiles]

Hi Paul,

Great! I'm at the same stage with some connectix gear, so I'll tell you what I'm going to do next.

I went for 2 x RJ45 at each outlet, and then there's a small adapter if you want to plug a normal phone in. This is good because if you want to use 2 for internet, then it's just changing the connection at the patch panel, rather than the face plate too.

The main BT cable is the point of demarcation - you're not allowed to connect to it directly, just either through the socket or a separate wire. If you plug the microfilter into it, then run the phone cable to the "phone host panel" directly, it should work. What panels are you using?

For ADSL, you run a cable to your router (you need a standalone one) and then from that to the switch that all the outlets plug into. You may have a switch and ADSL router combined.

To get rid of the microfilter, I installed an ADSL filter that fits into a standard single backbox, and connected to that.

Hope it helps!

Miles

[neilball]

If you want to keep things very simple then there are two ways to connect your BT socket to your patch panel.

The first is to take some RJ45 patch leads and cut the RJ45 off one end. You can now punch down the blue & blue/white cores to terminals 2 & 5 in the master socket (where you would normally wire in extension sockets) and then plug the RJ45 into the required port on your patch panel. If you only need a couple of phone connections then this will work fine.

The other alternitive is to fit some Cat5e sockets next to your master socket and use some spare Cat5e cable (the solid core cable you used around the house), and againg punch the blue pair down to terminals 2 & 5 at the master socket and then punch the blue pair down across each of your caty5e outlets in turn so they are all commoned up. You can then use a standard patch lead from the new Cat5e outlet to the patch panel.

In either case you then need a line adapter unit (sometimes abbreviated to LAU) in the room/s where you want to plug in a phone to your room-side RJ45 outlet. Make sure you use PSTN master or slave units as PBX or ADSL types will not work.

As mrmiles as said you also need to take care of ADSL filters but this would be easiest with a BT Master Socker faceplate filter if your router "lives" at the patch panel.

[aberdeenpaul]

Thanks for the replies.
Going by what you have both said should the wiring go as follows to the patch panel.
Wiring the BT phone lines in a daisy chain manner from behind the patch panel to each patch as per the attached diagram

I have still to buy patch panel, any ideas for a good one but not too expensive and probably need some sort of rack

[byronsp]

I used Cat5e, Cat 6 and Fibre Networking Products available online at Cablemonkey who sell Connectix stuff and they have excellent service and the products are very good.

Just in case you did not feel like wiring up your phone system to the patch panel manually there is this product which I have just bought. It's a bit more expensive but works hassle free.
Telephone Host Patch Panel 1*
24 Way Telephone Host Panel

I also ran RJ45 everywhere and just converted using a small convertor lead as required. (They also sell them).