Matt G. Watson

Project Home Phone - Part 1

Since the Asterisk project is done at work, its time to work on the Asterisk project at home! Who doesn’t need a PBX in their house? Oh right, just about nobody. Well I’m going to have one anyways since I happen to have the hardware for it.

Basically what I plan on doing is re-wiring the bulk of the phone lines in my house. In my house I have several RJ11 jacks (none of which are active since I don’t have a landline). I came across a spare BIX punch-down panel with 60 some odd RJ11 jacks on it. I figured what the hell, this is super geeky, why not use it in the house?

Well step one is getting the punch down block mounted, I just finished that off tonight, here are some

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As you’ll see in the pics, basically what I’ve done is cut a piece of 2×6 then used some sleeve bolts to fasten it to the wall. I used 3/8ths 3″ sleeve bolts, which should put it about an inch into the concrete, that thing is never coming off! Once I got the board mounted on the wall I drilled a couple of small pilots where the mounting holes on the BIX mount were, after that it was just a matter of putting a couple screws in and the mount was up.