Telephone distribution

[johnnyjb]

Hi,would any body recommend running individual telepone cables to phone points or run the cable in a radial from one to the next to next ect..At work we run individuals but you cannot get a bunch of cables into the connections so we put them into a connector block and bring a single phone cable from that to the phone point.The whole system is "bottle necked" by the single phone cable so why run all the individual cables,wgat would you do

This is in a domestic envoirment by the way

 

[RF Lighting]

Are you fitting a proper phone network or just a few sockets all off the same line?

If the latter, then I would advise you to daisy chain the sockets for the very reason you detailed.

 

[plugwash]

the best way imo is to bring every phone and network point in the house to a central cabinet, in that cabinet you can install the DSL splitter, the DSL router, any extra ethernet switches etc.

star based phone wiring has a number of advantages
1: it lets you run the phone and network wiring together (since the network wiring is generally star with current ethernet variants)
2: it lets you have lines that can be used for either phone or data, if you are desperate you can even run both down one peice of cat5 (though i'd reccomend avoiding that on new installs as it precludes use of gigabit ethernet)
3: if you have phone and network star points together it makes it easy to add diverter boxes to connect the analog phones to a voip service for lower call costs.
4: it makes it much easier to upgrade to multiple lines and/or a PABX later.

ultimately this is a descision for the customer to make, do they wan't cheapest price now or more flexibility later.

 

[johnnyjb]

Id also like to know bout dsl filters,ive sky ,broadband and phone.What has to be on a filter and wat does not

Ive a sky +on the same line as my broadband upstairs ,and a phone and standard sky box on the other input of my dual connection dsl filter.One side has a pic of a pc obviously for broadband and other has pic of phonewhich i plug my phone and standard sky box to.Do you need a phone and sky through a filter or are these pis on the filter just for convinence

Its annoying me to be honest

 

[Steve]

sky has to go through a filter, or else it cant dial out. And if it cant dial out, you'll get 2 full subscription charges, as sky dont know both boxes are in the same house (which they base the £10 extra per month on)

 

[johnnyjb]

We ve got double sub charges before for not havin the boxes connected.Does a phone hafta go through a filter too.My standard doesnt go through a filter (i think)And also if a phone is on a filter can i run an extension phone from it without adding another filter onto the extra phone since its already passin through a filter

 

[breezer]

inshort, everything has to go through an adsl filter. even adsl modems, since they have a differnt plug that fits into the adsl modem, although in reality all it is doing is by passing the lfilter.

no you can not run another phone from a phone with an adsl filter since the extra phone is connected to the socket, not the filter.

that said you can plug a suuble plug in the ads filter and plug an extension into this, but it will cot more than running a cable will