Sorry, when I refer to cat5 I do mean cat5e, if your cbling has been done in the last couple of years or so then it will be cat5e.
That doesn;t sound too bad an idea, but if you're doing that then you might as well use standard CW1308 and connect it all directly to the PBX via a box conn. Then to change extensions from room to room you'd just swap the RJ11's in the PBX.
Originally Posted by Inge Jones:
“I could just end all the cupboard ends in plugs, but I think it's harder to make sure they stay adequately labelled that way so I would like to end them all in sockets of some sort. Now I am debating with myself (and my other half) whether it's tidier to place a two-gang single box in each room with one outlet being standard phone and one being the rj45 data point, but what sort of socket to end the phone lines in, in the cupboard? The cat5e connection, because it engages all the wires in the cable, would seem to be the most futureproof whichever way I look at it. For example, with the XN210, you can use ordinary phones (on the two voice wires) or special phones with more wires used. To be able to upgrade without having to remake connections other than simply using a different patch cable is attractive.”
“I could just end all the cupboard ends in plugs, but I think it's harder to make sure they stay adequately labelled that way so I would like to end them all in sockets of some sort. Now I am debating with myself (and my other half) whether it's tidier to place a two-gang single box in each room with one outlet being standard phone and one being the rj45 data point, but what sort of socket to end the phone lines in, in the cupboard? The cat5e connection, because it engages all the wires in the cable, would seem to be the most futureproof whichever way I look at it. For example, with the XN210, you can use ordinary phones (on the two voice wires) or special phones with more wires used. To be able to upgrade without having to remake connections other than simply using a different patch cable is attractive.”
That doesn;t sound too bad an idea, but if you're doing that then you might as well use standard CW1308 and connect it all directly to the PBX via a box conn. Then to change extensions from room to room you'd just swap the RJ11's in the PBX.
