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[Jon21]

Hi, does anyone know of anywhere that sells decent quality BT > RJ11 cables? I've currently got a cable from RunITDirect and whilst it is well made, it's also a solid core cable. Hence it's pretty stiff. Not sure that's entirely suitable for what is in effect a patch cable.

[Alex Atkin UK]

What are you using it for, a plug in microfilter?  Because the quality of BT > RJ11 is usually of zero importance as its used for phones.

Most of us ditched plug in filters and moved to filtered face plates, avoiding that problem entirely.

[burakkucat]

Those who do not have an active telephony service on the pair, like Weaver, do not need any filtering (along with the inevitable, small, attenuation caused by the filter circuitry on the wanted signal) and so just directly connect the modem to the NTE5, by use of one of those cables.

[Jon21]

Yep, sorry, it's exactly as burakkucat said. I don't have a phone plugged in so don't use a filtered faceplate. Just a faceplate with the phone socket (BT431A?). Most of the BT > RJ11 cables seems to be the flat untwisted type. Don't see many that are made from CAT5e like the RJ45/11 > RJ11 cables.

[burakkucat]

Just a faceplate with the phone socket (BT431A?).

The plugs are actually BS6312. The 4-way plug is 431A and the 6-way plug is 631A.

Most of the BT > RJ11 cables seems to be the flat untwisted type.

For the relatively short length a flat, untwisted, cable presentation should not be a problem.

[Alex Atkin UK]

Good point, after all I did actually used to have a short piece of CAT5 hard wired into my master socket with an RJ11 crimped on the end.