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Structured cabling for fibre and home phone
Hello. I’m doing a full basement reno in our 70 year old house, so all the walls and ceilings are open for excellent access for wiring. We plan to install ethernet cabling and phone lines to seve...
I recommend at least 2 runs of Cat5 to each location in your home, and 3 to TV locations. Phone is easily managed with cordless handsets, and one central base station, but internet is best served by wired connections. Use standard Ethernet B wiring diagrams.
NFtoBC
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Community Power UserPhone lines as simple daisy chain is fine.
Thanks for your post, NFtoBC.
So treating the phone end of this setup just like the old copper based systems would work fine. Is this the most elegant way to go about this? Are there other possibilities? I'm really just curious and want to know more about this type of phone through fibre.
Thanks again for your input. I appreciate it very much.
- NFtoBC
The telephone output of the ONT was simply connected to the existing copper phone wires (4 conductor) in my house. The Tech simply disconnected the incoming copper phone line at the demarcation point, and connected the ONT output instead. It took longer to reprogram the line from copper to Fibre than to make the connection.
Interesting! I'll start strategizing my wiring plan with simple parallel connections in mind. Any thoughts about the quality of the cable I should run to the room jacks, perhaps with any kind of future-proofing to consider? Are there any standards that I would be wise to adhere to. In old houses that I've added phone line locations to, the red and green wires in the 4 wire solid copper cable were the relevant ones. The Telus tech who did our temporary installation ran cat5e cable from the J-box that connects with POTS1 of the ONT to the main floor phone jack, and used the blue and white wires of the cat5e.
Thanks again for your help. It's so nice to to have this resource, and I thank Telus for hosting this forum.
- NFtoBC
I recommend at least 2 runs of Cat5 to each location in your home, and 3 to TV locations. Phone is easily managed with cordless handsets, and one central base station, but internet is best served by wired connections. Use standard Ethernet B wiring diagrams.
