[TriLUG] Phone/DSL wiring

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Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
> 
> isn't your DSL modem RJ45 on one side and RJ11 on the other?
> Keep all your phone/fax on the RJ11 side and your ethernet 
> on the RJ45 side

The Ethernet stuff doesn't enter into it.

I have the wall jack, DSL modem, fax, and two phones that
are all RJ11.

Since the diagram didn't clarify, let me try it as a word
problem. :-)

1. I have a single RJ11 wall jack with both pairs active.
2. One pair (line 1) is for the house phone.  The other
   pair (line 2) is for the DSL modem, fax, and work phone.
3. The two pairs are brought out from the wall jack (which
   is inaccessible behind a bookcase) via a flat 2-pair
   telephone cable.
4. Everything from that flat cable out needs to be replaced.
   I'd like to replace it with modern tech -- like Cat-5e.
5. The diagram showed:
   a. flat phone wire to a coupler to a dual-jack fitting.
   b. one of the jacks to the house phone.
   c. the other jack to another dual-jack fitting via a
      crossover cable and another coupler.
   d. one of the above jacks from [c] to the filter, then
      the fax, then the work phone.
   e. the other jack to the DSL modem.

So: Two couplers, two dual-jack 'splitters,' one crossover
cable, one DSL filter, and four bits of Cat-5e straight-through
cable.  All with RJ11 fittings.

Any clearer?  If not, I'll out together a *real* diagram
rather than ASCII-fart.
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