Routing a phone line through house

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Hi All

Currently moving my daughter from her small ish room to a larger one, previously the home 'office'.

Our BT phone line comes into the house in her new bedroom (red spot on the pic) and I would like to have this run into the green room (her old bedroom). It's a 2-socket BT terminal, one for phone line, one for internet.

What's my best option? The wall between the two rooms is solid, of uncertain thickness (formerly external wall, pre-extentions (done by previous owner). Should I just drill a hole wide enough to pass a phone connector through (and pass both lines through there), or should I add a terminal box of some type and drill a smaller hole?

Or should I just route the lines through the rest of the upstairs?

Realise i'm adding a lot of phone line and might suffer some speed loss on my internet performance.

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Why? Presumably you have an internet modem/router connected to the red point. Internet over wireless to the new room and a dect wireless phone.
Andi.
 
I'd install extension wall sockets in the new office and connect them back to the master socket. Assuming you use the correct cable (Cat5e/Cat6/CW1308) you won't lose any speed worth worrying about.

You can use a single cable for both outlets (the cable will contain multiple pairs).

You'd connect the cable to the IDC terminals that are inside the master socket for this purpose.
 
I'd install extension wall sockets in the new office and connect them back to the master socket. Assuming you use the correct cable (Cat5e/Cat6/CW1308) you won't lose any speed worth worrying about.

You can use a single cable for both outlets (the cable will contain multiple pairs).

You'd connect the cable to the IDC terminals that are inside the master socket for this purpose.
Thanks

So is there any advantage to using cat5e over cw1308, when I'm only going to be running phone and Internet? I'll probably run it under the carpet, around the edge of the room, so the thinner profile of the phone wire would be more practical.
 
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