Sorry about YAOTPFY[1], I've got a big box of solid core Cat 5E cable sitting in the living room waiting to be strung around the house. I've got double-jackpoint keystone jack thingies, and I'm intending to use the top jack for data and the bottom jack for POTS, in each room.
I have a twelve port patch panel to install in the "server-room"[2] next to the network switch. I will install these double jack thingies in six rooms, with the top (data) jacks connected to patch-panel ports 1-6, and the bottom (POTS) jacks to patch-panel ports 7-12. I have two phone lines coming into the house. I intend to run cat 5E from the telecon demarcation thingy to the "server-room"[2] to two phone plugs next to the patch-panel. I then want to have little wee patch leads from each of the phone jacks to patch-panel ports 7-12, thus livening the bottom jack in each room as a phone jack. To swap a room from external POTS line 1 to line 2, all I'll have to do is swap it at the patch-panel. My question is - thus any of this make sense? Am I missing something? What gotchas can anyone warn of before I start? Cheers Yuri [1] Yet another off-topic post from Yuri [2] Corner of the lounge :)
