That is a way we route around problems, and it is also the best way to do it. That is how I have my house set up. But often not necessary, and cat 5 is also not necessary. Cat 5 comes into play when your signal leaves your router and it can run an immense distance on cat five- but using it for your inside phone wire would only be beneficial if the drop line from the pole to your house was cat 5 and all the wiring back to the central office is cat 5 (or if you have fiber to the curb). Most of the lines on the pole would be more an equivalent to cat 3. A filter can be jerry-rigged in the terminal on the side of the house (and sometimes even the protector in the terminal can degrade performance) but a proper 'splitter' can only be obtained during a visit from a phone company technician. But needing to take these additional steps is very often not needed, about 90% of customers never need to have a technician visit your home.
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Originally Posted by engineer
not entirely true, depends when your house was built and what type of internal phone wire was used. I had to run separate cat 5 wiring out to the outside phone junction box where the DSL was added so it is split now from the old inside phone and into the new cat 5 wiring. That way there is no interference with the existing phones and I did not need a filter on each phone. Also that gives me a good wire to the DSL modem particularly if you hard wire in a network instead of wireless which I have done.
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