phone and broadband how to?

I would like to wire my house so that each room has an ethernet port, I have dsl, which uses a pair of wires, but broadband uses the 4 pair set, of which i know not all are used, how would i go about having one cable, (ethernet) and having it provide telephone and broadband access to each room? I have a dsl modem and that goes into a router and i have one comp hooked up to it, but I would like do be able to do more with it. Any recommendations? And plz don't tell me to get VoIP, that's not an alternative.

x98gulinski said:

I would like to wire my house so that each room has an ethernet port, I have dsl, which uses a pair of wires, but broadband uses the 4 pair set, of which i know not all are used, how would i go about having one cable, (ethernet) and having it provide telephone and broadband access to each room? I have a dsl modem and that goes into a router and i have one comp hooked up to it, but I would like do be able to do more with it. Any recommendations? And plz don't tell me to get VoIP, that's not an alternative.

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You can't...since Cat5/6 connectors won't fit into a phone jack, and Phone jack won't fit into a Ethernet jack [ If you want to be literal, it will fit, only because its so small in comparison, but it won't do anything and fall right out ]

Komataguri said:

You can't...since Cat5/6 connectors won't fit into a phone jack, and Phone jack won't fit into a Ethernet jack [ If you want to be literal, it will fit, only because its so small in comparison, but it won't do anything and fall right out ]

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Erm? You get wall plates and rj11 and rj45 ends. "fitting" isn't a problem in this setup, cross talk is.

Of the 8 wires in a cat5 trunk (?), 10/100 only uses 4, that's true. And your phone/dsl will only use 2. The problem you will run into ( and it will be so bad I don't think you can over come it ) is going to be the crosstalk, which is why more people don't do what you want to try.

I don't think this will work, but it's worth the experiement if nothing else.

Get a 5 Ghz wireless phone with as many handsets as you need. Wiring anything for voice is so 20th century....

You will pretty much need two sets of cables to each jack. For regular voice you can use CAT5 (you can support multiple phone lines over same line). In fact many new homes are wires with CAT5 for voice and CAT5 for data but just plugged into different distrubution panels/racks.

So at some central point (garage or closet maybe?) bring the lines in, put in the line filter here (so you don't need DSL filters at each phone. Create a patch panel for the phone lines and a small rack for the DSL modem, a router and a switch or two. Then have a patch panel for the data cables. Run two wires for each jack. Use different color cable to indicate function. So use Blue for data and Green for voice, or some other combination.

If you do this you can have a more professional install, a central place for all of your telephone and network and no need for individual DSL filters, all of your internal phone lines will support more than one line. The jack could be for two RJ11 ports for the phone and a single RJ45 for the data port. Just make sure you label the ports (and patch panel) and label the wires.