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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

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[–] mark_rees@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't recommend it. If cabling is a problem, you might want to consider WiFi phones, then you would just have a thin power cable with a wall wart.

[–] Grant_Son@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

The two I'm thinking of currently have analog phone lines patched out over cat6 structured cabling with a socket either set into the wall behind. Yealinks supplied bracket is horrible and leaves not much space and a pretty tight bend in the cable.

Might just hope I have some spare thinpatch cables kicking around