What connection is this?
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RizzoTheRat

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29,082 posts

223 months

Sunday 6th February 2022
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I have a box in my lounge with one RJ45 and 2 of the narrower phone sockets in it.

Opening it up I found there is a Cat 5 cable coming in, with 2 wires to each of the phone connectors (right), and the rest to the RJ45 (left) with some additional resistors on the back of the keystone. I'm going to rip it out to run a couple of Cat 5e through, but I'm intrigued as to what it was. Is there another type of phone cable that use RJ45?




LordLoveLength

2,355 posts

161 months

Sunday 6th February 2022
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Possibly basic rate ISDN?

Harpoon

2,550 posts

245 months

Sunday 6th February 2022
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Home Highway had two analogue phone sockets and an RJ45 for ISDN data

RizzoTheRat

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29,082 posts

223 months

Sunday 6th February 2022
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ISDN would make sense, non UK so not Home Highway specifically but I guess lots of people used similar technology.