Originally Posted by borked

So, here's the situation - I cabled the entire house in Cat5e a while ago while I building it but tbh in this day and age, pretty much all the sockets are never used cos of the roaming wifi I set up. What I'd like to use a few of the socets for though is for telephone - lounge, 3 bedrooms and office (2 lines)

Q1 - I'm pretty sure, but would like confirmation, is Cat5e fine and dandy for telephone? My telephones have RJ45 plugs, but maybe wired differently than internet?

Q2 - The telephone arrival lines (2 lines) arrive in my data cupboard in the hall. ATM, I have a telephone junction box splitting the telphone to lounge and office. I also have a router for the internet going into 8 wall sockets (RJ45), which are cabled to feed each required room. This is my main Q and problem - exiting the ADSL box is the telephone OUT line (RJ45) that I want to use to feed each of RJ45 wall sockets that got to the various rooms - can a router or hub handle telephone?

If a router or hub can't handle telephone, then I gues the solution is to take the RJ45 telephone OUT, enter to a junction box, then from that feed the RJ45 sockets, but a hub/router would be much cleaner. I'm guessing if anything a hub would work, as a router works on data to channel only down the line that asked for the data, whereas a hub sends the data down all lines (like a telephone), if I'm not mistaken?

Input would be very much appreciated if you know for sure....