Share your phone and network connection on one Cat5e

I recently had a call from a new home-owner who's 7,000 Sqft House was only wired with one cat5, and one coax in most locations, the most amazing part of it, was that his home office, only had one location with a cat5 cable ran to it.

To make matters worse, he wanted three computers hooked up to the network throughout the house, the Communications closet was in the basement, and the house has three stories. So wireless would have been an expensive proposition.

Fortunately just recently, Onq/Greyfox was able to help me out. They now have a Phone/Network Retro-fit Module, it allows you to split out a cat5 cable to support 1 network connection and two phone lines per module.

I was able to simply punch-down the cat5 cables in the comm closet, and use two keystone inserts, and a 2 hole keystone plate, to and split out the orange and green, to one insert, and the brown blue, to the other insert.

the Retro-fit module has switches on it, that allow you to select what "line" (in case you have more then 2 lines in the house) you want the brown pair to be, you can have the teenager line going to their computer, while the fax line can be sent to the office. And the main line is maintained on the blue pair.

If you want to get really tricky you don't need their module to accomplish all this, but it definitely cuts down on labor.