5C master linebox extension

[pddco]

@Duke500  Thinking that at some point, in the perhaps not too distant future, you may be offered a fibre to the home connection, could you not make the relocation of the router easier for now by buying a long white RJ11 lead. Seen some upto 5m. And neatly routing it along the skirting or whatever to the hub? 
Yes you’ll still have the NTE 5C there. But at some point when fibre comes along that’ll disappear. And you may find that the ONT for the fibre connection can be placed near the relocated hub in any case. If you see what I mean..

[Duke500]

@pddco thank you, that sounds like a great suggestion. I will give up on using the cat6 stuff I have- seems it isn't a good idea to use over-spec parts and no one can tell me which terminals go to which in a hybrid system. Back to basics! Thanks again

[WSH]

It’s not that no one can tell you, it’s just that what you’ve said so far still isn’t very clear.

So does this NTE 5C have an RJ45 socket then?

You can get faceplates with two sockets, a BT431A phone socket plus an RJ11, (which in some cases is a dual purpose RJ11/RJ45), but a single RJ45 socket on an NTE 5C would be extremely unusual.

The best I can suggest then, if it is an RJ45, is that pins 4 & 5 are likely to be the ones in use, (to mimic pins 3 and 4 in an RJ11 plug).  They will connect to pins 2 and 5 in a BT socket resp., although modern equipment is not usually polarity sensitive.  (Pin 3 was the old bell wire, to make very old phones ring.  A router doesn’t need it and it can act as an aerial and feed interference into a DSL line, so I’d leave it disconnected).

As RBZ5416 said, the Smart Hub 2 uses an RJ11 socket for DSL/FTTC, so an RJ45 will need an adapter to connect it.

I hope that helps but I still say using cat 6 for this is like trying to fit Ferrari tyres to a tractor, (both in terms of performance and fit).

[pddco]

@WSH At the end of the day it seems that all that’s needed is a longer version of what @Duke500 has now connecting the hub to the NTE 5C.

Good point about the unterminated  ‘aerial’ leads within a cable. Not sure how many wires might be in the longer RJ11cable. But hopefully the longer lead will do the job. Easy to test by simply connecting it up the longer lead before installing it and checking that the speed hasn’t been affected. 

[WSH]

Which is what people have been saying all along.

[pddco · Accepted solution]

@Duke500  With the RJ11 cable it can be quite neatly fixed to the top edge of the skirting board with a thin line of clear adhesive - or maybe clear silicon -  applied to the top edge and the cable lightly pressed on top. Saves unsightly clips. The downside is that it may lift the paint when you want to remove it. Perhaps less so with silicon. But just a thought.