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Justin pearson
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Thanks very much for the replies. The BT master socket has a detachable front plate and I haven't tampered with this. If I understand correctly I'm to connect 3 of the cat5 cable cores to 2,3 and 5 at the master socket. This may be a stupid question, but the cat 5 has six wires. Is a core counted as a green cable with a lighter cable twisted around. So will I be conncting 6 cables at each end? (3 pairs)? Also, I have two socket outlets with Cat 5 in each room. For internet I would use the feed from the router to one socket with an ethernet plate and would it be correct to feed the other socket with a standard phone outlet from the new BT socket next to the router?
If your Cat 5 only has 6 wires then it is not Cat 5. Cat 5 has four pairs so has eight wires
Pair 1 Orange / White Orange
Pair 2 Green / White Green
Pair 3 Blue / White Blue
Pair 4 Brown / White brown
Take one of these pairs and connect to terminals 2 and 5 forget terminal 3
Not sure what your configuration is in you last sentence as it seems a bit confused mixing ethernet and phone outlets
You need a double socket - you can run 2 cat5 cables to this socket.
One will be connected to the RJ45 socket and plug (at router)
the other will be connected to the Telephone socket in each room and the master socket in the hall way.
Dont forget there is a maximum length that you can extent telephone cables for use with broadband.
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