BT phone line extension from master socket

[davejuk]

I'm in the process of laying CAT6 network cable and installing RJ45 sockets, and while I have the floorboards up I thought it would make sense to replace the crummy "plug 'n' play" type BT phone extension with a proper extension socket installed flush with the wall.

What's the best type of cable to use, and what's it called? Or should I just use the cable from the extension kit?

Many thanks.

 

[Paul_C]

You just want standard internal telephone cable, known as CW1308. Like this:

http://www.comtecdirect.co.uk/default.asp?ProductID=VC003-JM27-108


By the way, computer network modular jacks are not RJ45, despite the now widespread and erroneous use of the term. RJ45 is something quite different.

 

[davejuk]

Thanks for the link.

I'm sure that if I had called them 8P8C plugs/sockets then a lot of people wouldn't know what I was talking about

 

[disinfo]

Why not just use a bit of your CAT6?

 

[davejuk]

Why not just use a bit of your CAT6?

I'm sure it would work but that's not really the proper way to do it.

 

[plugwash]

cat5/5e/6 is used for phones in offices all the time, nothing wrong with it.

 

[davejuk]

cat5/5e/6 is used for phones in offices all the time, nothing wrong with it.

I stand corrected, but I've ordered 10m of CW1308 so I may as well use that now. If anything it might save the next owner some confusion.

 

[drgl]

You should have just flood wired the building & got the NTE5 master socket next to your patch panel, that way you could have used BT to RJ45 patch kits to patch the telephone line to any network socket you wished. That is the whole point of a structured cabling system(CAT5e/CAT6).