[nzlug] long wire: cat5 or phone?

[Andrew Bruce]

Just to take this one step further (in the idea of wiring up a house)...

I have intended (for a while) to wire my house, and have just had the 
following thought:

If I do this sensibly, where all the CAT5e cables go back to a central 
patch panel, and I setup another patch connected to the incoming phone 
line, I can then use any network wall socket (with the correct adapter) 
to plug a phone/modem/router/whatever into, providing I then connect the 
correct patch port in the central location to one on the phone patch.

Is the above a correct statement?  I only ask, because I believe it 
would have some advantage for me to be able to put a phone anywhere in 
the house that I want where there is a network port.

It's also occurred to me that whilst running the network cable, I should 
be re-doing the phone stuff as well, as it is old wire, and the upstairs 
phone is connected via 3 wire cable somehow piggy backed onto a 2 wire 
socket downstairs.  Obviously the above would save me that extra job :-)

Andrew