Incoming Phone cable

[Roland Perry]

In message [e-mail]>, at 11:15:03 on Sun, 15 Nov

2020, "Dave Plowman (News)" [e-mail]> remarked:

I would never dare say "every" on Usenet.

Most usually the outside cable would come from the pole to a bracket fixed to the house on or just below the eaves above the front door. Then down the outside of the wall, through a hole, and inside to the phone point (in those days a hard-wired one).

Occasionally, eg if the house's front door wasn't facing the street, they'd first go round the side of the house to above the door.

[Owain Lastname]

Seems to be more common in Scotland - I think most of the houses I've lived in have a pole in someone's bacl garden or tenement drying court, and the wires go over the back gardens rather than over the road at the front. There are no poles in the street.

Occasionally one gets an Openreach person asking for the back passage to be opened so he can get access to his pole.

Owain

[Dave Plowman (News]

Open land to the back of the house which was the last in the street. Pole in the corner between the end of our garden and those at right angles in the next street. All the houses in our street (built in the 1930s) had phone lines entering the back of the house, as did others surrounding this bit of open space.

But I've seen telephone poles at the back of houses in London too. For example, if you had rear access to a garden either side of a service road, it could be easier to run the main telephone cable down that than in the road at the front of the house.

[Dave Plowman (News]

Makes sense when you think about it. Houses were generally built with the best 'finish' to the front. Better quality bricks or better dressed stone. So why ruin the look of the street with ugly telephone poles and wiring?

[Theo]

Friends of mine used to live in a 1980s/90s tiny two bed flat. The master socket was still in the hall, despite the hall being only about 2m long and the height and width of their front door.

A terrible place for a phone, but extension sockets had been invented by then. And actually turns out to be a sensible place for the wifi hotspot :)

Theo

[Dave Plowman (News]

When I moved in here, the line came in via the frame of a 1st floor window. Closest to where the outside line hung from the brickwork. With surface wiring everywhere. ;-)

Got rid of all that at re-wire time. But with hindsight, not a bad place for the router and Wi-Fi. Although the worst place here is the kitchen in the rear addition. So have an extender in the hall just outside it.

I fitted the first router - before Wi-Fi - in the cellar. Easiest place to run wires to for the cabled LAN.

[No Name]

Not here!

Two phone lines comes into the loft, one from BT and the other from Virginmedia.

There is not a single phoen socket anywhere in the house, rather, there are over 50 network sockets instead. All the cabling from these network sockets are Cat6 screened twisted pair and all of them go to a patch panel in the loft.

The phone lines go to a 2nd patch panel of which there are 16 RJ45 sockets all wired in parallel.

a set opf 1m long white patch leads then connect the phone patch panel to the network patch panel and some RJ45 to RJ11 adapters are atytached to the phones and plugged into a network socket.

ALl the cables are all buried in either capping and plastered over or in stud & partition walls.

S.

[Bob Eager]

This house had similar. The line came in via the window frame in the largest bedroom - in use as a living room by the elderly mother of the lady of tyhe house (she could get upstairs, daughter couldn't due to severe foot problems).

We weren't going to waste all that space for a bedroom, so we made that our 'office'. The equipment rack (servers, VDSL router etc.) is in the corner. The cable from the socket to the router is less than a metre. From the router to the firewall systm - less than that.