Re: Cat5 cabling

["Matthew Norman" <mafiu@xxxxxxx>]

I cut the bt phone plug off the end of an old phone and crimped a RJ45 on
the spare end.  I used the 4 middle conductors of the rj45 and this was
compatible with the phone baluns (rj45 to phone socket) that I had aquired.

The phone wire core was not solid, and so should not technically be
compatible with the rj45 IDC connectors, but its worked for about a year
now, apart from the time that I accidently patched my ethernet segment into
bt and the phones stopped working.....(!)

Matthew

----- Original Message -----
From: "sh33pdip" <rjl@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 5:58 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] Cat5 cabling


> Still a newbie but I've just done some cat5 cabling of the ground
> floor of my house and have a couple of questions: -
>
> 1 - where can I buy the flat stranded cat5 cable from, and
> 2 - how do I connect the BT master socket to the RJ45 sockets? I've
> found the adapters for phone to RJ45 (but don't quite understand the
> difference between a master line adapter and a secondary one) but
> not one that has the BT plug on one ens and an RJ45 on the other (or
> am I just being thick trying to do this?)
>
> Any assistance would be much appreciated,
>
> Rob
>
>
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