I've been reading here and looking at web sites, and I am still confused about what I should buy
I have a signal splitter (filter?) to put in the telco box in the garage, so I may send a DSL signal directly to my office, and a "pots" signal to a distribution panel
I have a box of 1,000 feet of cat5e to use for everything, so "just in case" I ever decide to add high speed to any location other than the office, all I have to do is change the wire connection at the telco box
What I want to do for the telephones is take that one line from the splitter at the telco box, in a central location, and connect "about" 10 lines going to various places in the house (still figuring out how many, but about 10 is good)
Looking at the wiring in the crawl space I'm renting, the "master" line from the telco box is connected to all the individual wires with a simple "remove insulation & twist" bunch of wires, with a shrink-to-fit covering (or it may be a "gob" of silicone insulation that was put on and let harden... dark in the crawl space and hard to see
I would like my central distribution panel to be just a BIT neater... and that's where I am confused
I need a SIMPLE connection "block" that has one line in and a place to connect 10 (or maybe as many as 12) lines going out... all with the same signal
After reading messages here, and looking at pics online, it SEEMS to me that a "110 punch block" is made so each set of "punches" is individual, not common to one input
What can I buy that has one input, and up to 12 outputs that are all pre-wired internally so every one of the output wires is the same, common signal?
Thanks for any specific brands and models and links to online sites I may visit
John Thomas Smith