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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.
Thank you, Polecat.
Sounds like where you are is a bit challenged for high speed telecom services. Until recently, I lived for 25 years in a remote part of BC; so I’m familiar with the fun and games of rural internet and phone. Always made life interesting!
We are in the city now, and are on the Telus 300/300 plan with home phone. The phone definitely comes through the fibre line. Please have a look at the two images below. One is a photo of our current temporary installation, and the other show the scheme I’m considering (with the phone question mark).
The phone cable comes from the POTS1 port on the ONT, changes from RJ-11 cable to cat5 in a white small j-box, and then exits the house through the same hole the fibre entered. It then climbs up the exterior wall and into house on the main floor to supply a single RJ-11 jack.
Hopefully, that fills in the picture a bit more clearly. Thanks again for your thoughts.
Rubato I am in Creston one of the first towns to get fibre in bc. I waited a year an asked people about the new service and comments were all good. Called Telus for fiber internet and they asked if i wanted my home phone moved to fiber and because of noisey lines rain storms etc i said yes. Old copper line still in house not hooked to anything. All phone lines in house and garage are on a service block hooked to the fibre equipment with a battery backup good for one hour only span i think. Power out fibre phones will not work with out battery backup. Your images do not show up ??? I was on satellite then with a real slow copper internet They tried to sell me optik but i don't like the optik format and especially the control wand. Tried it at my daughters in calgary did not impress me at all. Power out cordless will not ring or work but older tone phone in house can be used. Our cell is road trips only and then only for texts.
Hi Polecat,
Thanks for mentioning that these fibre-based phones won't work without power. That makes sense, now that I think about it. I'll put the ONT and other components on a UPS.
Regarding putting images in these posts: I started out trying to use the "insert photos" icon at the top of each new post. That brought up a drag and drop window that never seemed to finish uploading --- like it was caught in an endless loop. So I wondered what would happen if I dragged the image files right into the post, and that seemed to work. I hope that you (and others) can see the images. Please let me know if they're not showing up in the post.
Again, thanks for your input.
