Re: [KAT5] Re: Conecting UK phones to Cat 5

[Nick Shore <nick.shore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

simonstill wrote:
> Nice idea about splitting the BT cables along the patch panel.
>
> However, I'm having some problems of another sort at the moment.  My
> CAT5 cabling is working (ie all the right connections) and with my
> ADSL router downstairs near the socket it works fine.  The router is
> then patched to a switch upstairs in Node 0 to which everything else
> is patched.
>
> If I put the phone line through the CAT5 and the router at node 0 the
> connection becomes unreliable and I had to repeatedly reset the
> router.  Any suggestions?
>
How about using the modified faceplate from clarity and sending both
phone and adsl up to node 0 and then position the router there ?

You can use one cat5 cable to do this, and it works very well for my
installation.

http://www.clarity.it/acatalog/ADSL_Installation.html

Hope that helps

Nick.