Good Afternoon
Maybe a bit of an odd question but as I’ve alluded to in other posts I’m in the process of swapping out phones form our legacy PBX to voip handsets on a hosted could solution.
We have some phones that are wall mounted and I’ve found with some that getting a standard cat 5/6 cable into the back of the phone and getting it flush on the wall is not easy.
Would cutting an old phone cable and putting RJ45’s on it in a 10/100 pin out work?
Probably 30cm/12" or less just to get form a socket in the wall out to the handset?
Thanks
Grant
Yealink T31’s
The wall mount will just about accommodate a cat 6 patch cable without a boot and with an extreme bend.
In a couple of places where we used the supplied cat5e cable that came with the phones we had to cut the moulded boot off the cable.
I’m also looking at some different mounts for some areas that have a flat back plate rather then the hooks to hang on screws as we aren’t allowed to drill into the walls.
With regards to POE I know we have at least one phone working with POW using a set of splitters to get a phone on our LAN with a POS system on the POS providers broadband, so wasn’t sure if using a short ~6" length of reterminated phone cable to go from the socket to the phone would be workable. Thought Id ask the hive mind before getting the crimping tool out