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Old 03-10-2007, 7:56 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Telephone wiring

Hiya,
I am wiring up in preparation for a cinema room and I know I will be needing a telephone extension in this room for my second SkyHD box.

I have dropped cat5 cables down the wall to my study (another 1st floor room) to distribute HD to this second location but need some help with the phone line.

In the study there is an extension socket which currently has my router connected to it but does have a free phone socket - Hence I could plug an extension into this having dropped it down the inside of the wall but it's the other end (in the cinema room) that is the problem, I want to drop the cables down the internal wall again (this time not so wide a gap in the wall!) and this cannot be done with any kind of connector on the end it would need to be just bare wire and then I wire up a socket once the cable is pulled through.

So basically two questions:

1. What cable do I need to do this - I have plenty of cat5 can I use that or should I buy proper telephone cable?

2. Are there instructions on how to wire the plug at one end and the socket at the other if I use cat5 or just the socket at the other if I use telephone cable?

Hope someone can help....

CK
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Re: Telephone wiring

CK,

If you don't get any answers here it may be worth trying the home automation subforum - there's experts there on this type of thing.

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Re: Telephone wiring

will post in there too mate - thanks for the tip off
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Re: Telephone wiring

You can run telephone over cat 5 with no problems - Pop down to your local maplin and talk to them

At the main box end you can use one of those cables you used to get to connect a modem and at the phone end you can get a plug-in ballun (i think they are called).

Maplins will know.
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Re: Telephone wiring

Just wire from the back of the existing socket to a new one using CAT5 cable.

1 = No Connection
2 = Blue/White (1 leg of telephone line)
3 = Orange/White (ringing Circuit)
4 = White/Orange (not actually used)
5 = White/Blue (1 leg of telephone line)
6 = No connection

The above assumes that all the rest of the wiring in your house is correct. Just fit a micro filter in the Telephone socket.
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