Part 3 - Shopping

• 100 ft of telephone wire - Make sure this is the solid copper wire, not the stranded crap you get from Wal-Mart. Pay the extra money. It is well worth it.
• Telephone jack - wall plate with 2 phone jacks on the cover I'll be keeping my existing analogue phone and may want to use it while I'll on the computer. Plus if you get rid of your ISDN and switch back to a regular phone, it will be handy to have a jack to plug into.
• RJ-11 Modular Plugs - Incase your wondering, RJ-11 is the plug on the end of a phone line, you know the hard plastic thing you plug into the wall. I need to make my own line from my phone jack to my ISDN router.
• RJ-45 Modular Plugs - You may think that I am purchasing these only for my home network. But since I am making my own line one end will be RJ-11 and the other will be RJ-45. You need an RJ-45 to plug into your ISDN router or modem.

Get your tools together.

• Category 5 Ethernet Cable. Cat 5 has solid copper pairs. It works very well and is very reliable. Don't waste your money on the stranded Cat 3. If your not going to be running custom cable for your network, you want something you can work with.

• Very small horse-shoe nails - I need to tack down the phone line I am installing.
• Crimper - A crimper will crimp the Modular plugs on the end of your wires. Your will need different size dies for the RJ-11 and RJ-45, but you can buy a crimper that will crimp both.