Hi
Can someone put me straight please, I’ve a few questions hopefully someone can answer them all.
Ok this is the master plan, at the moment I’m running my internet and telephone via Virgin Media optic fibre cable and have decided its time for a change to a different provider.
There is a telephone wire coming into the house which just ends inside a small plastic box, there are no terminals inside the box just the incoming wire coiled up. The box measures 3 inches x 1.5 inches x 0.75 inches deep, it is fixed on the front door frame just inside the house.
I need the master point to be in my study which is at the back of the house some 27 feet away from the entry box at the front door.
What would be the best cable to use from the entry box to where I need the master point, ie do I need
cat 6 shielded, cat 6 ordinary or cat 5 cable, bearing in mind I shall be running the cable under the floorboards and no doubt it will come into contact with power and lighting cables??
Does anyone know of a descent cable because I’ve read reviews on the Screwfix website and people are saying they are having a hells game to fit the various connects onto the end of the cables??
At the moment all my light switches and power socket outlets are brushed stainless steel, is there such an animal as a master phone socket with a microfilter in brushed stainless steel, there will be other telephone points which will need to be fed by the master socket??
What sort of box would I require at the front door ie. what connections would need to be inside it??
The idea is to keep the fitting price down so I intend to run the cable under the floor and fit the master socket and whatever box is needed by the door myself, so when Mr Engineer man calls all he has to do is make the connections at each end and just check all is well when the new hub is fired up.
My thanks to anyone who can help me out, I'm afraid I'm from the era when the nearest thing you could get to a calculator was logarithms and antilogarithms or if you were really cleaver a slide rule
Can someone put me straight please, I’ve a few questions hopefully someone can answer them all.
Ok this is the master plan, at the moment I’m running my internet and telephone via Virgin Media optic fibre cable and have decided its time for a change to a different provider.
There is a telephone wire coming into the house which just ends inside a small plastic box, there are no terminals inside the box just the incoming wire coiled up. The box measures 3 inches x 1.5 inches x 0.75 inches deep, it is fixed on the front door frame just inside the house.
I need the master point to be in my study which is at the back of the house some 27 feet away from the entry box at the front door.
What would be the best cable to use from the entry box to where I need the master point, ie do I need
cat 6 shielded, cat 6 ordinary or cat 5 cable, bearing in mind I shall be running the cable under the floorboards and no doubt it will come into contact with power and lighting cables??
Does anyone know of a descent cable because I’ve read reviews on the Screwfix website and people are saying they are having a hells game to fit the various connects onto the end of the cables??
At the moment all my light switches and power socket outlets are brushed stainless steel, is there such an animal as a master phone socket with a microfilter in brushed stainless steel, there will be other telephone points which will need to be fed by the master socket??
What sort of box would I require at the front door ie. what connections would need to be inside it??
The idea is to keep the fitting price down so I intend to run the cable under the floor and fit the master socket and whatever box is needed by the door myself, so when Mr Engineer man calls all he has to do is make the connections at each end and just check all is well when the new hub is fired up.
My thanks to anyone who can help me out, I'm afraid I'm from the era when the nearest thing you could get to a calculator was logarithms and antilogarithms or if you were really cleaver a slide rule
