The original telephone cables likely go through the wall and under the floor and clipped in place. Plus their likely to be daisy chained so if you use one of the telephone cables to pull another cable through you'll break the link that joins the extensions to the master.
Help with extension wiring for broadband please
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The original telephone cables likely go through the wall and under the floor and clipped in place. Plus their likely to be daisy chained so if you use one of the telephone cables to pull another cable through you'll break the link that joins the extensions to the master.
Best to put a vdsl filtered faceplace on the master socket. The cable going to the first extension will connect to the bottom removable section of the master socket and then the extensions should work fine if they were working ok for voice before they still would. It would be a lot of trouble to strip out existing telephone cable and unless the OP was fully networking up the home with Ethernet cables going everywhere you'd loose having telephone extensions in the rest of the house. The number of existing telephone extensions is a bit overkill in one sense but I imagine whoever did it wasn't intending for them all to be used, some are probably there to provide alternative options for placement of phones where required throughout the property.
If you buy good quality cable it should be fine
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CAT5e Solid shielded TP External Grade will be fine. If you're just running a single cable then get cable clips and a hole tidy (see link ) as it will look much neater when you sds into the wall.
http://cpc.farnell.com/webapp/wcs/s...estType=Base&partNumber=AP03207&storeId=10180
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