[Fetster]

I am having my house rewired with cat5e cable. I was wondering if it is possible to run a standard land line through cat5e (Shielded) cable?

I intend to extend my existing phone line into the loft and then run a cat5e cable to each room with a telephone socket on the end. In the loft I was going to wire the relevant cables together and connect them to the bt line.

Would this work?

Sorry if this is not the correct place to post however this seemed the most relevant section.

Regards

Fetster

[mswarren]

Hi Fester,

Yes this will work fine. But you might want to consider terminating the cat5 in the rooms with standard RJ-45 outlets, and using adaptors, then you get the most feixibility.

If you are having your CAT5 wired to central patch panel then can buy kits for want you want to do from:

run-IT-direct, BT to RJ45 Plug Solution, BT to RJ45 Converters & Leads, Patch BT Lines over RJ45

hope this helps, matthew

[Fetster]

Hi Matthew, many thanks for the help and the site link. I think i'll get the cables installed and maybe buy the converters later when I move back in.

Thanks again

Fetster

[djkay1982]

as warren said, cat5e is fine to use a telephone cable.

just give me a shout for any of the bits you may im in the telecoms business n i'll beat all that sites prices

[roaster]

Using the same cabling for different services is called "structured cabling". Typically, within one floor of an office building, or in your whole house, RJ45 outlets everywhere lead back to an RJ45 "patch panel".

Services (phone lines, data network etc) are also taken to the same location, either by wiring in the same way to a patch panel, or by having the actual equipment (servers, routers, switchboards) there. Then you just patch each room outlet across to the service you want to use there.

In the UK, you need to use an adapter in the room to terminate a phone line and accept a BT phone plug.

My ADSL router is at my patch panel, and the ADSL filter is on the patch panel, with the unfiltered line wired to one socket, and the filtered phone line wired to several RJ45 sockets, so we can put 3 phones & a fax ( & sky box & calor gas tank remote reader) where we want in the house with just one ADSL filter. Handy.