I'm currently on ADSL2 and am about to rewire the house ( some renovations going on so better now than never) to take advantage of  the fibre being laid outside the house .I'll  be running cat 5e or 6 to each room and back to a central patch panel.   In the interim I've also been looking at my spaghetti bt telephone wiring and have a few questions.

I  believe when they eventually bring fibre into my home they can loop something back in to allow me to use my current bt phone sockets as before. The house is about 13 years old and I believe is on two wire telephone system.

I seem to have a mix of ethernet cable and white telecom cable split throughout the home. The telecom point on the outside of the house has blue ethernet bringing it into a wallplate in the kitchen which also has 3 other cables attached into it which head off in various directions around the home - giving me phone points in bedrooms, study and living room.

It would appear they are using blue and blue/white at each termination point.  The question I have is does it matter which termination slots (1 to 6) the cable is pushed down into or are 1 through 3 and 4 through 6 connected together...

I had wrongly assumed that they all went to points 2 and 5 but when I look at the back of the kitchen wallplate, they appear to be taking advantage of the full range of connectors, albeit, blue's down one side and the blue/ white's down the other.

Is it possible to replace these points with newer rj45 wallplates and run cable back to my patch panel at a central location versus daisy chaining and T'eeing off boxes all over the place?

Thanks for any help

 

Ged