Power and phone sockets

WageSlave_3

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone can advise on a minimum advisable desistance between a phone point and a double plug? I am channelling in some conduits into a solid wall for cabling for my phone and another for a two power cables for a double plug. The space I want to put them in is limited but I’d hate to do all the work and then find that I am suffering a degraded performance, especially on broadband, by putting them too close together. I will be using standard plastic conduits and the phone line will come down from the loft while the two power cables come up from the floor boards. I would like to have the phone and plug sockets at the same height.

At the moment, I am using an extension cable which runs two transformers (one for the phone, one for the firewall / router. The currently sit right next to the phone socket (which is run over the skirting board and mounted rather badly. Seems to perform ok, but I am keen to be careful given the work involved.
Thanks in advance,
WS

Broadsword

Conventional wisdom is to keep them apart but with practicalities an imperative I have phone cables cable tied to a 13amp cable, and triple sockets in three positions alongside phone sockets, coming through the same hole in the floor, crossing and criss crossing each other in various places. And guess what? They all work fine including broadband! I am sure that in some situations, perhaps in laboratories, there is an effect and as a failsafe if you were in the phone/electricity industry that's precisely the advice you would give. However if you think of the millions of homes with both types of sockets living on skirting boards with cables inevitably passing very close to each other, we would all hear if there was an epidemic of interference..itis

WageSlave_3

Thanks, Broadsword!I have to channel into the walls anyway, but I'm much more reassured that I can do so with less concern regards distances apart.

WS

WageSlave_3

Thanks for the prompt reply, Broadsword. I suspected as much but it nevers hurts to pick other brains for an opinion. I'll press ahead as I had planned!

WS