Need to add wall jack to connect to my modem

[muppetmomma13]

I am needing to add a wall jack to my 1914 home, there is currently not one - anywhere. My house is "hard wired" for all phone services i.e. I literally have a rotary phone hard wired and mounted in my basement (circa 1957). One other phone is also hard wired and my last two connection points the wire ends in a plug and not a jack. I have tried just plugging this phone cord into my modem but ends up 1) still not showing as a viable connection for my internet and 2) sounds absolutely horrible when using the phone.

My thought is that I could cut the phone line going to my rotary phone (good bye cruel world) and splice CAT 5 cable to that line then running the CAT 5 to a wall jack placed near my computer.

Would this work? I know (from reading at this site) that I should only use 4 of the 8 wires incased in CAT 5.
What should I use to make the connection between the CAT 5 and the old 4 wire phone cord? And finally is there any set color combination that works best?
Any advice/guidance would be most welcome as I feel so close to actually having home internet but find my self so very far from that connection.

 

[bill001g]

I will assume you are talking a dsl connection that runs over the phone line in the first place.

First step is to connect the modem to the line in the basement to see if the wire is high enough quality to even get that far. If it works at that point you can just splice ethernet to the wire and run it to the other location and it will likely work. It really depends how close to the limits you are and if the extra wire will put you over.

Unless you have vdsl you only need 2 wires. The phone pair is commonly run on the blue/blue white pair but electical singals can't see the color of the plastic so it really doesn't matter. You could even do stupid stuff like use a wire from the orange pair and the green pair but it is always best to use the wires in proper pairs.

 

[muppetmomma13]

I will assume you are talking a dsl connection that runs over the phone line in the first place.

First step is to connect the modem to the line in the basement to see if the wire is high enough quality to even get that far. If it works at that point you can just splice ethernet to the wire and run it to the other location and it will likely work. It really depends how close to the limits you are and if the extra wire will put you over.

Unless you have vdsl you only need 2 wires. The phone pair is commonly run on the blue/blue white pair but electical singals can't see the color of the plastic so it really doesn't matter. You could even do stupid stuff like use a wire from the orange pair and the green pair but it is always best to use the wires in proper pairs.

 

[muppetmomma13]

Thank you very much for your help. I was able to make the connection and splice my lines. I am even answering from my new home computer. Yea!