Wiring for Broadband

My exchange is due to be enabled for broadband soon am am looing to improve
my telephone wiring to avoid problems. I am proposing to use 6 core cat 5
cable. I understand that only 3 connections are made at each outlet. Can
anyone tell me how I should connect the twisted pairs of the cat 5 cable?
Should it be each twisted pair to each connector? I also recall reading
somewhere that cat 5 cable should not be stapled, is that correct.
Thanks for any advice you can give.
Alan







Alan

Alan wrote:

> My exchange is due to be enabled for broadband soon am am looing to
> improve my telephone wiring to avoid problems. I am proposing to use 6
> core cat 5
> cable. I understand that only 3 connections are made at each outlet. Can
> anyone tell me how I should connect the twisted pairs of the cat 5 cable?
> Should it be each twisted pair to each connector? I also recall reading
> somewhere that cat 5 cable should not be stapled, is that correct.
> Thanks for any advice you can give.
> Alan

Depends if you like wasting money or not ,normal 1308 style telephone cable
works fine and is about £10...15 per 100 meter drum. It works just fine
stapled to the wall as this proves .

The connections you need are 5 and 2 and 3 for the bell circuit ,most
people will connect 4 as well ,only required if you use earth recall which
you wont.

The pairs are white-blue 5 blue-white 2 white-orange 4 orange-wh 3
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On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 21:27:00 UTC, ian
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> > Should it be each twisted pair to each connector? I also recall reading
> > somewhere that cat 5 cable should not be stapled, is that correct.
> > Thanks for any advice you can give.
> > Alan
>
> Depends if you like wasting money or not ,normal 1308 style telephone cable
> works fine and is about £10...15 per 100 meter drum. It works just fine
> stapled to the wall as this proves .
>
> The connections you need are 5 and 2 and 3 for the bell circuit ,most
> people will connect 4 as well ,only required if you use earth recall which
> you wont.

I think he was thinking of using one pair to each of 5, 2, and 3...!

OP...you should be using one pair for 2 and 5, one for 3 and 4, and one
for 1 and 6 (not sure about teh last two, but use a pair for 2 and 3
without fail).

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"Alan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> My exchange is due to be enabled for broadband soon am am looing to
> improve my telephone wiring to avoid problems. I am proposing to use 6
> core cat 5 cable. I understand that only 3 connections are made at each
> outlet. Can anyone tell me how I should connect the twisted pairs of the
> cat 5 cable?

Cat 5 cable is 4 pair i.e. 8 core and not six. Standard Telephone wiring
requires only two of those pairs.

ian wrote:

> Alan wrote:
>
>> My exchange is due to be enabled for broadband soon am am looing to
>> improve my telephone wiring to avoid problems. I am proposing to use 6
>> core cat 5
>> cable. I understand that only 3 connections are made at each outlet. Can
>> anyone tell me how I should connect the twisted pairs of the cat 5 cable?
>> Should it be each twisted pair to each connector? I also recall reading
>> somewhere that cat 5 cable should not be stapled, is that correct.
>> Thanks for any advice you can give.
>> Alan
>
> Depends if you like wasting money or not ,normal 1308 style telephone
> cable
> works fine and is about £10...15 per 100 meter drum. It works just fine
> stapled to the wall as this proves .
>
> The connections you need are 5 and 2 and 3 for the bell circuit ,most
> people will connect 4 as well ,only required if you use earth recall which
> you wont.
>
> The pairs are white-blue 5 blue-white 2 white-orange 4 orange-wh 3


OP
The connections are as above I put an extension in at home yesterday .Oh and
by the way I am a professional telecomms engineer ,after the first 500
phones circuits you get quite good at it. Use IDC connections if you can
get them screw terminals are a pain.It is worth buying the professional
tool usually called a Krone or IDC tool .
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