[vox-tech] Carrying telephone signal over ethernet

[Larry Dieterich]

At 1:44 PM -0800 3/18/04, Mark K. Kim wrote:
>So my dad's workroom has no phone line, believe it or not.  I do have a
>phone line in my room, though, and we got a ethernet line between our two
>rooms.  Since 10baseT uses only 4 of the 8 lines on the cat5 cable I'd
>like to use the unused lines to carry the voice signal.  I know cat5 was
>designed to do this (middle two lines are open), and I've done it before
>with custom adapters (messy), but I can't find any splitter online that
>does this.  Anyone know where I can get a pair?  What's it called?
>

Something like this?

http://www.deering.ie/coolport.htm