Problem using several RJ45/BTS adapters with ADSL Master Faceplate Splitter

[bob2000]

My home has a standard BT master socket. It also has a Cat5e patch panel hardwired to several network points around the property.

I intend buy four RJ45/BTS adapters (http://www.solwise.co.uk/images/rj45-bts-small.jpg) to convert RJ45 network ports to phone sockets.

I would also like to buy one of your ADSL Master Faceplate Splitters (http://www.solwise.co.uk/images/adsl-nteface-front-small.gif) for the front of the BT master socket. (I will then connect my router directly to the ADSL output.)

From the Solwise splitter, I will wire terminals 2, 3 and 5 to four spare ports in parallel on the patch panel. I can the patch the telephone signal across to any standard network port using a short patch lead.

I can then use a RJ45/BTS adapter at the appropriate network point to plug my analogue phone in.

My question: Those RJ45/BTS adapters have ring cicuits like a BT master socket. Will there be a problem if four of them are in parallel with the main BT master socket? Surely the ringing capacitors cannot be installed in parallel?

Is my proposed set up technically OK?

[Steve]

Yes... everything you say makes good sence.

tbh, in most situations where people distribute PSTN lines via a patch panel, they don't bother with the ring. That way they only have to worry about a single pair of wires for each phone line (normally using the center pair of the RJ45). It also means they don't have to worry about checking that the bell wire (pin 3) and pins 2 and 5 correctly goes to the correct pins on the phone socket. If you just worry about the signal wires (2 and 5 on the BT socket) then you don't even have to worry about polarity.

The RJ45/BTS adapters ONLY connect to the two center pins of the RJ45. So, even if you still go ahead and run the bell wire to the sockets, it won't be used by the RJ45/BTS anyway.