RE: Telephone over CAT5/Patch panel

["christopher purves" <CHRIS_PURVES@xxxxxxx>]

I would also add you can cheaply buy BT ren boosters on ebay. Gives
you up
to 11 phones rather than 4 - nice!

Chris



>From: "Paul Gordon" <paul@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: "UKHA_D Group" <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Telephone over CAT5/Patch panel
>Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 14:43:55 -0000
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>John,
>
>First of all, - you don't *have* to use CAT5/BT adapters - you *could*
cut
>the BT RJ11/RJ12 (never can remember which it is!) off of each phone,
and
>crimp on an RJ45 plug in it's place... - this is obviously a "no
going
>back" operation though...
>
>Rather than buy (and pay over the odds for) "proper" CAT5/BT
adapters, you
>can instead just go to your local "Poundland" and buy a load
of standard
>telephone extension leads, cut them in half, and crimp on an RJ45 plug
to
>the bared ends, - this will give you the correct adapter to use at both
the
>patch panel end, and the outlet end. (this is what I've done for all my
>phones, and it works perfectly).
>
>To common a number of outlets together at the patch panel you basically
>need to punch the same wire into several sets of terminals on the back
of
>the patch panel. - you know that to connect a cable to one outlet on
the
>patchpanel, you will strip back the outer sheath about 2-3cm, and punch
>down the inner cores onto the terminals for one of the ports... - to
common
>several together, merely strip back much more outer insulation, - about
>10-15cm say, and punch each core down to multiple ports by using the
longer
>length you've exposed... - obviously you punch each core to the same
>terminal on each port.
>
>See a picture of mine here for an example...
>
>http://paulgordon.homeip.net/photogallery/img_0655.jpg
>
>HTH
>
>Paul G.
>
>
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>From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx on behalf of Benfield, John (Penta)
>Sent: Tue 07/03/2006 14:12
>To: UKHA_D Group
>Subject: [ukha_d] Telephone over CAT5/Patch panel
>
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>
>Probably a dumb question here but I don't seem to get my head around
it.
>
>I have flood wire my house with (probably^h^h^h^h^h^h^h not enough)
>CAT5. I know that if I want to connect a phone I need a CAT5/BT
adaptor.
>My question is at the patch panel end. If I want to connect my BT
master
>socket to a single CAT5 outlet this is just a simple cable connection,
>however how do I cable it up so that I can connect the phone line to
>multiple CAT5 outlets?
>
>JB
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