Converting Telephone cable to CAT6 & back again?
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I have/had our router (in modem only mode) sat next to the master bt socket connected to my router under the stairs via CAT6, I am wondering if there is any real benefit in this now & for the sake of the extra 20w on permanently I might just leave the Vodaphone router under the stairs and have it do the WIFI & connector to my wired network/etc... And remove they need for a second box 'o tricks.
Is it simply a matter of buying an adapter to convert the telephone wire out of my wall box to CAT6 & then back again?
Many thanks,
Is it simply a matter of buying an adapter to convert the telephone wire out of my wall box to CAT6 & then back again?
Many thanks,
Edited by Andehh on Thursday 22 February 19:41
Andehh said:
I have/had our router (in modem only mode) sat next to the master bt socket connected to my router under the stairs via CAT6, I am wondering if there is any real benefit in this now & for the sake of the extra 20w on permanently I might just leave the Vodaphone router under the stairs and have it do the WIFI & connector to my wired network/etc... And remove they need for a second box 'o tricks.
Is it simply a matter of buying an adapter to convert the telephone wire out of my wall box to CAT6 & then back again?
Many thanks,
Yes, it is that simple. Is it simply a matter of buying an adapter to convert the telephone wire out of my wall box to CAT6 & then back again?
Many thanks,
Edited by Andehh on Thursday 22 February 19:41
Andehh said:
I have/had our router (in modem only mode) connected to my router under the stairs via CAT6, I am wondering if there is any real benefit in this now & for the sake of the extra 20w on permanently I might just leave the Vodaphone router under the stairs and have it do the WIFI & connector to my wired network/etc.
Is it simply a matter of buying an adapter to convert the telephone wire out of my wall box to CAT6 & then back again?
Is the 20W a measured figure, or a guess? I'd expect it to be much lower than that. Is it simply a matter of buying an adapter to convert the telephone wire out of my wall box to CAT6 & then back again?
Thanks guys, any idea what I'd be searching for to find said adapter? Is a telephone cable technically cat3?
silentbrown said:
Is the 20W a measured figure, or a guess? I'd expect it to be much lower than that.
Im sure I measured it once, and it was 14w, but that was before I plugged 4 network cable into it! HootersGsy said:
Thanks very much, the female socket there looks very narrow for my CAT6 RJ45 cables? Is that just the angle of the photo?silentbrown said:
It's not the router-modem that has 4 LAN cables, though?
No, The Original setup was BT modem->CAT6-> Belkin router. Then Belkin would do my wifi then into the 4 ports was my network splitter, NAS etc etc. It was this Belkin that was around 15W IIRC.Seeing as the Belkin Router I use is now several years old, i figure I might get a tiny boost in range going with a modern (ish?) Vodaphone router which might just get me the wifi I want in the Garage (it's borderline as is) combined with saving a smidgen of 'leccy.
Now I just wanted phone socket -> CAT6 -> Vodafone Modem/Router (until it pisses me off through one way or another)
It is the right adaptor, I have two - taking my telephone from the basement where the master socket is, into the patch panel and through CAT6 to the living room where it's converted back to the telephone line. RJ45 connectors never look quite right in photos!
EDIT: just realised you meant the female. The female socket is the telephone connector. The idea being telephone cable into that, the RJ45 into a patch panel so you can take the telephone signal through the structured cabling, back out the other end with an RJ45 wall plate (for example) and into a female telephone socket so you can connect up the end device.
EDIT: just realised you meant the female. The female socket is the telephone connector. The idea being telephone cable into that, the RJ45 into a patch panel so you can take the telephone signal through the structured cabling, back out the other end with an RJ45 wall plate (for example) and into a female telephone socket so you can connect up the end device.
HootersGsy said:
It is the right adaptor, I have two - taking my telephone from the basement where the master socket is, into the patch panel and through CAT6 to the living room where it's converted back to the telephone line. RJ45 connectors never look quite right in photos!
EDIT: just realised you meant the female. The female socket is the telephone connector. The idea being telephone cable into that, the RJ45 into a patch panel so you can take the telephone signal through the structured cabling, back out the other end with an RJ45 wall plate (for example) and into a female telephone socket so you can connect up the end device.
But that's going to involve more adapters cables...EDIT: just realised you meant the female. The female socket is the telephone connector. The idea being telephone cable into that, the RJ45 into a patch panel so you can take the telephone signal through the structured cabling, back out the other end with an RJ45 wall plate (for example) and into a female telephone socket so you can connect up the end device.
Your master telephone socket is Female. You need a male telephone to male RJ45 at that end, and a male RJ45 to male RJ11 (for the router) at the other, surely?
Maybe this helps at one end?
https://www.kenable.co.uk/product_info.php?product...
Andehh said:
I already have a terminated cat 6 cable with the standard ethernet plug on it, at both ends of the cable. I need to use male telephone to female ethernet/rj45 socket on one end, then same again at the other.
Male telephone to female to plug into the master socket, yes. But your router will have a female RJ11 connector on it, rather than a female telephone socket. Something like the left of this...
Still struggling on this one. 
I need the reverse of the below.
I need make telephone call plug to female ethernet socket? The above suggestions seem to be the reverse of this ala....? I think?
https://www.maplin.co.uk/p/telephone-to-rj45-adapt...
I need the reverse of the below.
I need make telephone call plug to female ethernet socket? The above suggestions seem to be the reverse of this ala....? I think?
https://www.maplin.co.uk/p/telephone-to-rj45-adapt...
You can get RJ45 'couplers' https://www.maplin.co.uk/p/cat-5e-coupler-sh93b
Use one of these on each end of your CAT6 cable. The smaller RJ11 connector will still fit in the bigger RJ45 socket, it just connects to the middle pins.
BT to RJ11 cable, https://www.maplin.co.uk/p/bt-to-us-extension-cabl...
Use one of these on each end of your CAT6 cable. The smaller RJ11 connector will still fit in the bigger RJ45 socket, it just connects to the middle pins.
BT to RJ11 cable, https://www.maplin.co.uk/p/bt-to-us-extension-cabl...
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