Can I Use Cat5 For Phone Line. CAT5 is great for phones and gives you lots of extra pairs to expand like for a second line an alarm system etc. It is important not to use variety of media in the same Cable since the Electrical fields might interfere one with the other.
CAT5 cable has four separate twisted pairs. It is recommended to keep the runs to 295 or less when using patch cords. If you want to run a network on that cable youll need to replace it with an RJ45 8-wire jack on both ends.
Injunction of 2 wires is usually indicated by black dot to the intersection of 2 lines.
There would be no advantage to using CAT6 with a phone. Plug any routers and wifi points into your new ethernet port for faster networking. It is important not to use variety of media in the same Cable since the Electrical fields might interfere one with the other. How do you disconnect a wire from a landline.
