FTTC extension cable?

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Is the FTTC extension cable just a 30m RJ11 cable or something else? The reason I'm asking is that the easiest way to get from the master socket in the hall to my workroom upstairs at the back of the house is the way the phone extension is run - back out to the front of the house, up the wall and into the front bedroom then through another hole in a wall to my workroom. Obviously this would mean chopping off one end then re-terminating - not something I'd ask the installer to do. Ideally, if this is possible, I'd try to get some external grade cable and make a complete custom job.
 
I think the BT approved way is to have the modem next to the master socket and then do the extending over a Cat5e/Cat6 cable. If there's no reason you can't have the modem next to the master socket (lack of power for example) then obviously you have no choice but to extend the phone line part of it.
 
The extension kit is basically a length of white cat5e. It isn't preterminated so you can do what you want. If you had some cat5e preinstalled they'd probably use it.

The modem can be located by the socket or at the end of the extension.

There's also the option of having the master socket relocated.
 
You can install the modem and router where you want (together or apart) as long as you have mains available and can route a cat5e cable between them and to the phone socket.

Both my modem and my router (non-BT) are located in my upstairs office on a cat5e extension from my master socket.
 
Thanks, everyone. A length of Cat5e isn't a problem and I can terminate that without any problems. I'd swipe a chunk from the reels of Cat6 we have at work but it's black (and a bu**er to work with).....
 
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