Even if you choose not to use his other suggestions, I strongly agree with Wiley's idea of using cat-5 instead of cat-3. The difference in cost is minimal, and it will give you much more flexibility down the road. You could even terminate the cat-5 with an RJ-45, and plug your RJ-11 phone cord into it. It will work fine, and that way you don't have to re-do the jacks later when you decide to go all IP.
Back at the distribution point, you can terminate everything on an inexpensive cat-5 patch panel, and then cross-connect to whatever you like - ATA, Asterisk box, Ethernet switch, whatever. Brian Leyton IT Manager Commercial Petroleum Equipment > -----Original Message----- > From: Wiley Siler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 10:03 AM > To: Dylan VanHerpen; Asterisk Users Mailing List - > Non-Commercial Discussion; snacktime > Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] asterisk home wiring question > > Just for grins.... A few thoughts. > > Run Cat5 exclusively and just pull pairs for phone. Cheaper > and better solution that CAT3 and CAT5 mixed together. > It allows you to change the end points at will. Who knows if > you may want to change over to RJ45 ports and go total IP at > some point. > You would not be able to do that with CAT3. You would need > some CAT5 and have to redo the pulls. > You also get enough pairs on CAT5 to put two phone jacks per > strand instead of just one. > Even if you ignore the rest of my email, I would consider > this seriously. > > For ideas on how to wire the house, look at the Vonage > website for a graph on how Vonage suggests to wire the Vonage > ATA into the house. I know you do not have a Vonage adapter > but the same essentual configuration for wiring should apply > to your situation. Essentually, you disconnect the house > form the PSTN then connect your * machines FXS > to any wall jack to provide tone. This should distribute tone to all > the jacks. Limit is around 5 analog phones if memory serves. > > If your intention is to provide tone to the house with > switching between Asterisk with VoiP service (SIP or IAX from > some ITSP) and a standard PSTN line from the local telco, > then you would do as described above. > Isolate your internal phone system, then pull a new jack from > the PSTN to the room where your * sits. Plug the FXO card in > your * into the new isolated phone jack and * now has a POTS > line to work with. > > Voilla. Some good dial plan management and you have an > internal PBX system that has VoIP service over your internet > connection and a connection to a POTS line. Your internal > phones will be isolated correctly so you don't get contention > issues with the external analog link. > > However, one final question. If you are rewiring the whole > house and pulling CAT5 (right?), why not just provision each > wall plates with 2 > RJ45 network ports and pull two strands of CAT5 per location. > Then you can buy a good Gigabit switch for around $300 and > setup your whole house on Gigabit. Throw some cheap (or > expensive) SIP phones on the network and you have a really > nice internal phone system. Want to use your old phones? > Get ATAs or IAXy devices. That being said, I know that is a > more expensive way to go but it really does offer you a long > term solution with many benefits. > > Just some thoughts!! > > Cheers, > Wiley > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Dylan VanHerpen > Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 9:21 AM > To: snacktime; Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] asterisk home wiring question > > Chris, > > If you are looking to run your second line through *, you > will need to run the line from the demarc to an FXO port on > your Asterisk machine, and then run a line from an FXS card > to the jack location where you will be using an analog phone. > > You cannot connect an incoming line from your telco to an FXS port. > > Dylan. > > On 4/20/05, snacktime <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was thinking about the best way to hook up the second line in my > > house to an * fxs port. Would I just wire the fxs to the incoming > > side of a line at my demarc? > > By 2nd line you mean a phone line from your telco, or an > unused pair of wire? > > > Or should I splice it in after that? > If you splice the FXS port into an existing phone line, you > will be putting 2 dialtones on the line (one from *, one from > your telco). The end result will be no dialtone at all ;) > > > > > I need to rewire the whole house anyways. What I had > imagined was new > > cat3 for the phones, and then running a cat5 also while I'm > at it for > > housewide internet access. > > > > Now my computer room where the internet switch and my * box are > > located is at the opposite end of the house from the > demarc. That is > > where the fxs port would be. The house has a huge crawl space so > > running the wire will be easy. > > > > Any thoughts? > > > > Chris > > _______________________________________________ > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
