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
You are probably right, most testers can’t be arsed and will stick a sticker on a toaster sitting in a full bathtub if it means they get home quicker.
POE is a weird one when it comes to PAT testing. Because the phones can be powered by a plug in power adaptor they qualify for PAT testing and the devices that supply the power for the POE qualify for PAT testing so it often comes down to how your PAT tester wants to interpret it. Some take the whole chain from power socket to ethernet cabling while others just consider the devices themselves. If you get the former though, they will fail 2 pair (If it can even carry PoE).