Phone + Network on 1 CAT5 cable?
I will be moving into a new house soon and need some cable advice. The house will be wired with home-run CAT5 cables for phone. I want to use the unused orange and green pairs for my network, keeping the blue pair for phone. Is this advisable? I have heard reference to doing this before, but wanted the opinion of experts.
I would be terminating the cables on a 110 block, so the distribution to a CAT5 patch panel is no big deal.
This is a single story house with full basement, so I have access to the cabling. Would it be easier and future-proof to run a second cable to each box and separate the network and phone?
Jeremy
read more and respond »Posted 5 years ago by Jeremy Worrells in LAN and Telecom Cabling
