Telephone connections for Sky, TiVo

[scottere]

Not sure if this is the right forum - apologies if not.

My setup is that I have all my AV kit in a large walk-in cupboard in the hall, feeding through to my TV and speakers in the living room.

It's all set-up pretty well, with the exception of the phone cables going into the cupboard.

I currently have a single phone line going in, but I actually need 3 devices to have a phone connection:

Sky HD box
TiVo box
Normal sky box (for multiroom, used to feed TiVo)

I've not bothered connecting my sky boxes until now, but since the HD installation, I'll need to do so when I get the other one connected up for multi-room.

Obviously, I could put filters onto my phone socket in the hall, and run 3 cables from there into the cupboard. This is messy, and a bit of a pain.

I already have one telephone cable going into the cupboard, is there any kind of "junction box" I can use to allow all 3 devices to share this cable? I have found this one at Maplin, but have no idea if it'll do what I need:

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?...ories&doy=18m7

Any suggestions will be gratefully received - if I can cut down on the amount of cable I need to run across rooms then I'll be delighted!

[AMc]

I imagine you need one of these
http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?...o=907&doy=18m7
plug it into the phone socket in the cupboard and everything else to that.

[scottere]

Originally Posted by AMc

I imagine you need one of these
http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?...o=907&doy=18m7
plug it into the phone socket in the cupboard and everything else to that.

Just to confirm - I don't have an existing phone socket in the cupboard. My single phone socket is in the hall, and I have a cable running from there into the cupboard just now to plug into my TiVo.

Will the junction box you identify allow me to take the input from the cable, and spread it between the 3 devices? If so, that's just what I'm looking for.

[hornydragon]

Do you not want ADSL or a Phone? using the existing cable + multi tap what is the current cable? is it a female to male BT cable? or RJ11 (little clear modem style plug and white BT plug?)

[scottere]

Originally Posted by hornydragon

Do you not want ADSL or a Phone? using the existing cable + multi tap what is the current cable? is it a female to male BT cable? or RJ11 (little clear modem style plug and white BT plug?)

Yes, I currently have (and will need to have) both ADSL and a landline.

The current cable goes straight from the socket (via an ADSL filter) in the hall, into the TiVo in the cupboard. From memory, it's an RJ11 (white BT plug at the socket end, small clear modem-style plug at TiVo end).

The question is - do I need to run 3 of these same cables (one for each box in the cupboard that needs a connection), or can I have some kind of switching unit in the cupboard that takes the input from the single current cable, and branches it into 3 connections (one for each box).

Apologies for my difficulties in describing this!

[hornydragon]

no i know what you man know mate apart from getting close to your REN limit all you need is one filter and a 1>3 adapter then 3 plug cables from boxes to adapter (the cupboard end of cable is it RJ11 (clear modem type) or White BT?

[scottere]

Originally Posted by hornydragon

no i know what you man know mate apart from getting close to your REN limit all you need is one filter and a 1>3 adapter then 3 plug cables from boxes to adapter (the cupboard end of cable is it RJ11 (clear modem type) or White BT?

The cupboard end has the RJ11 terminator. So, assuming an RJ11 1->3 adaptor (plus 3x RJ11->RJ11 cables) will do the job, does anyone know the best place to get one?

[AMc]

You could buy a domestic phone extension kit - run that between your existing socket and the cupboard and then plug the splitter I suggested into the end and your 3 items into that splitter.

http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?...o=922&doy=19m7

[LDJ]

Just a thought, but could you not use a mains based (Homeplug) telephone extension? That would avoid the need for any new wires then....?