Aandrew
07-10-2009, 13:28
When I moved into my house it already had a telewest connection. Im still using virgin media cable broadband but using BT for my phone calls.
In the room where the cable comes into the house is a box from which the coax cable to my modem is connected and next to that a phone socket. These are wired to a brown plastic box on the external wall of the house.
What I want to do is run a cat5e cable from this room round the outside of my house to the living room which is on the opposite side of the house. What I hope to do is reuse the phone socket as a network point.
So my question is this, is it possible to safely remove the wiring to the phone socket so that I can run my cat5e cable there instead with a different face plate? Im not how the existing phone wiring is connected to the external box, I thought I might just cut it right back and then tape it up with some self amalgamating tape?
In the room where the cable comes into the house is a box from which the coax cable to my modem is connected and next to that a phone socket. These are wired to a brown plastic box on the external wall of the house.
What I want to do is run a cat5e cable from this room round the outside of my house to the living room which is on the opposite side of the house. What I hope to do is reuse the phone socket as a network point.
So my question is this, is it possible to safely remove the wiring to the phone socket so that I can run my cat5e cable there instead with a different face plate? Im not how the existing phone wiring is connected to the external box, I thought I might just cut it right back and then tape it up with some self amalgamating tape?