useing cat5e cable instead of adsl cable for router and master socket?

[Dean01986]

Hi folks, can anyone help me out on a question ive got? i will put it in short, ive got unlimited fibre broadband (not fibre optic) with plusnet, and i use the bt home hub 5 as the main modem/router, my main question is can i use a cat5e ethernet cable to plug from the dsl socket on the router to the adsl socket on master socket? the adsl rj11-rj11 is plugged in at the moment, but i just wondered if i could swap the adsl cable and use a cat5e ethernet rj45-rj45 instead, it seems to fit in the dsl/adsl sockets but my main concern if it damages it? thanks for ur time in answering this.

 

[jsmithepa]

As long as it fits, go4rit.

 

[corroded]

RJ11 and RJ45 share a common pin set... the 2 wires on the RJ11 match the center pins on the RJ45, the 45 jack is just wider.

 

[InvalidError]

Are you asking if you can replace an RJ11 cable with an RJ45 one while leaving everything otherwise as-is or are you asking if you can connect your router directly in the DSL line to eliminate the modem? In the first case, yes you can, but you gain absolutely nothing from doing so since the phone line only uses "pair one" on the cable and the remaining hundreds/thousands of meters of wiring between your modem and DSLAM is still cat-3 phone-quality stuff. If you wanted to ditch your modem, no can do since the DSL line only speaks xDSL while your router's WAN/LAN ports only know how to speak Ethernet. The modem is there to translate between the two.