RE: Moving my BT phones sockets into a patch panel

["Jake Liddell" <jake.liddell@xxxxxxx>]

I'm definitely no expert in telecoms, but I did what you describe.  My
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es are now distributed on CAT5, but leaving the master box alone, so that
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f I get a telecoms problem that requires BT to investigate, I can easily
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plug the lot, and not get charged by BT for 'breaking' things.
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Apart from that, I couldn't find any standards on the web for converting
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tween RJ45 and BT 4pin (can't remember the name!) sockets, so I just used
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he four middle pins (3456) of the RJ45, mapped to pins 2345 of the BT
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g.  Doing it this way means that I can't run both BT and ethernet down one
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wire (ethernet uses 1234 of cat5), but then I've put enough cables in not
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o have to worry about that anyway.
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Anyone out there know how it *should* be done?
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Rgds,
Jake.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Gerard McGovern [mailto:stuff@xxxxxxx]=20
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 06:24
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Moving my BT phones sockets into a patch panel


Hi,

I'm about to board the loft and wire every room in my house with Cat5.
At the same time I'd like to get my BT phone sockets intergrated into a
patch.

Is there anything I should be aware of before I attempt this? Do I still
need one master socket and then wire everything from that? Is there a
patch panel that can do the job for me? What would be the best way to do
it?

Any help anyone can provide will be most appreciated.

Thanks,

G

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