networking over phone cable

lampsie

Heya,
House I've moved into has RJ11 sockets in all the rooms - wondering would I be able to replace with RJ45 faceplates and get some networking running over the cabling that is there? Am assuming its single twisted pair cabling

any suggestions welcomed In meantime I'm using powerline adapters which in fairness are performing well, though obviously would prefer dedicated networking

cheers,
lampsie

collier

Unfortunately if is not as simple as replacing the faceplates. You would need to have CAT5/6 cable and not standard telephone cabling.

In theory if the phones where originally installed on CAT5/6 cables it would be possible to change the faceplates. You will need 4 pairs on the cable to network though.

FSL

Even if Cat 5 was used they couldn't be used for data as the telephone points will be looped and data requires point to point.

chrismon

FSL wrote: »

Even if Cat 5 was used they couldn't be used for data as the telephone points will be looped and data requires point to point.

Not always, you do not have to loop telephone cables. You can wire individually to each point from your main incoming telephone point.
Depends on who installed it.

lampsie

Thanks guys - good news as it happens; got a faceplate off to get a look at whats in there, and happy to report after pulling up the string its cat5 in there at the moment, with the RJ11 just using a single twisted pair I'd assumed it'd be just simple single twisted pair wire, and vaguely remembered reading somewhere that you might get half-duplex 10mbs over single twisted pair. I may well have dreamed that, hence the query

RE looping - good point, hadn't thought of that; had a look in the junction box, and thankfully looks like they all terminate up there with endpoints for each. So, just need to patch them down to somewhere sensible and should be all good

cheers again
lampsie