Wiring Telephone Points

[Noob2013]

Hi all,

Looking to wire several telephone points. One master telephone and two for sky boxes.

Would it be best to take a cable from the master telephone socket to a junction box then split it 2 ways?

Looking to use cat5e instead of telephone cable.

Cheers

 

[amlu]

for voice and sky receivers anything will do. worth getting any broadband router plugged in the master socket, quality of line really matters in that case.

 

[UNG]

Hi all,

Looking to wire several telephone points. One master telephone and two for sky boxes.

Would it be best to take a cable from the master telephone socket to a junction box then split it 2 ways?

Looking to use cat5e instead of telephone cable.

Cheers

Cat 5e is ok to use although I would avoid using the CCA variety

Traditionally phone points should be wired as a radial circuit. Only one master point is needed at the beginning of the circuit to create the ring signal.
Although sky boxes don't need the ringer you might as well connect it at those points as you'll have enough cores there.

There is no need for the ringer circuit ( terminal 3 ) to be connected and connecting it can result in interference and poorer broadband speeds. The i-plate and newer VDSL filters mounted on the NTE 5 disconnect the ringer circuit because of the problems it causes

Just buy a master with screw terminals as oppose to the punch down option then you can just twist them together.

The plate where the extensions connect still has krone connectors I'm not aware of any with screw terminals. On the NTE 5 (Master) socket it will take one incomer and 2 outgoing cables.
If the NTE 5 is fitted with the additional VDSL filter you can have filtered and unfiltered extensions wired from the master

 

[7029 dave]

^^^^^ I will go with that.

 

[Swcfisher]

Sky boxes don't need telephone line anymore just get a free wifi adapter off of sky if you don't have one of the wifi had boxes.