RE: BT to RJ45 convertors

["Paul Gordon" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Erm... Been a while since I did it.... Not sure I even knew what the
standards were at the time.. I *think* what I did was to use the 4
centre pins on the RJ45 plugs... - the telephone wire in the extensions
I butchered had 4 cores. I know I didn't need them all, but I thought it
best to leave them intact, so it was just a choice of which 4 pins to
use on the RJ45 side.... I think I just picked the middle ones because
that's symmetrical.... And I like symmetry.... - -that's for the
butchered extensions of course... - for punching down the incoming line
to the panel, I used solid core telephone wire, and (I think) the
correct colours for line-A/Line-B

There's a pic here, if you can make it out....
http://paulgordon.homeip.net/photogallery/img_0655.jpg

Paul G.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Paul Gale
> Sent: 24 April 2006 11:50
> To: UKHA_D Group
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] BT to RJ45 convertors
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> Ah yes - good idea. Did you wire to the standards or just use
> any old pair?
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> Cheers,
>
> Paul.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Paul Gordon
> Sent: 24 April 2006 11:42
> To: UKHA_D Group
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] BT to RJ45 convertors
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> Paul, as you're obviously already comfortable with DIY solutions, do
> what I did, and make your own adapters. Just go to any nearby
> "Poundland" or similar and buy some bog standard telephone
extension
> cables (for a pound!) cut 8 inches or so off each end, and
> crimp an RJ45
> onto the bared ends. From each extension cable you then get 1
> x RJ45 to
> BT PLUG and 1 x RJ45 to BT SOCKET pair - you may not need the former,
> depending on how you connect the BT line to the patch panel
> in Node 0...
> - orginally I used the first DIY cable to make a single port
> patch from
> a standard BT wall outlet into a "normal" port on my panel,
but more
> recently I dedicated a block of ports on my panel to phones
> and punched
> the BT cable across a commonned block of 6 ports on my patchpanel, so
> now I just use standard RJ45-RJ45 patchcords instead.
>
> http://paulgordon.homeip.net/nodezero.html
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> Paul G.
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]
> > On Behalf Of Paul Gale
> > Sent: 24 April 2006 11:16
> > To: UKHA_D Group
> > Subject: [ukha_d] BT to RJ45 convertors
> >
> > Where's the cheapest place to get BT to RJ45 convertors to
> > run tel through a patch panel?
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> > I already have this working for a couple of years and cut the
> > original BT plugs off a couple of DECT phones - but now want
> > to add more and I don't want to have to fiddle around so much.
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> > Cheers,
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> > Paul.
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