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Rubato
Helpful Neighbour
6 years ago
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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...
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    NFtoBC
    6 years ago

    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.

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Rubato
Helpful Neighbour
6 years ago

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.

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polecat
All-Star
6 years ago

Rubato Had to add this .One year ago 24 hr outage our cordless phones did not work old push button worked  just fine for that time and battery held up. Old rotary will not work at all unless you buy a pulse to tone conversion kit $70.

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