[ale] Home Wiring (was Re: cat5)

[Leonard Thornton]

This works, but you still have the problem of plugging in your phone on the 
other end (which happens to be RJ-11).

Since it is apparent that you are buying the cable to begin with, why not 
buy 6 pair twisted instead of 4 pair twisted (CAT-5) and dual jack face 
plates (RJ-11 and RJ-45).  This way you can have 2 phone lines AND the net 
connection at all locations without having to do patch cable swapping.


At 01:55 PM 1/14/2002 -0500, JGlass at WesleyanCollege.edu wrote:
>How about this:
>Punch down all CAT5 to a 110 patch panel.
>Each port has a patch cable to reach the hub/switch.
>
>Hook up phone service to a 66 block, by punching down the lines w/o cutting
>them. Cut one end off a patch cable, and wire the white/blue,blue pairs to
>the tip and ring from the phone company.  Now, when you want to switch from
>network to telephone, unplug the patch cable to the hub at the panel, then
>plug in the phone patch cable.
>
>This is how we connected our older Appletalk network to our new CAT 5
>wiring...surely it will work for telephony as well...???
>
>Anyone have any thoughts?
>
>Jonathan Glass
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Leonard Thornton [mailto:Leonard at Intelis-inc.net]
>Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 1:39 PM
>To: Michael Kachline; ale at ale.org
>Subject: Re: [ale] Home Wiring (was Re: cat5)
>
>
>The magic will not be in the patch panel, but in the cable you use to
>connect from the panel and the wall plates to your telephone.  The wiring
>from the wall plate to the patch panel is 8 conductors straight thru.  When
>you get to the wall plug you have to convert RJ-45 to RJ-11 (8 pins to 4
>pins).  At the patch panel end you have the same scenario going from RJ-45
>to whatever you have your incoming lines punched down to (66 block?).
>
>
>
>
>At 12:41 PM 1/14/2002 -0500, Michael Kachline wrote:
>
> >         Guys,
> >
> >         Speaking of cat 5 in the home, does anyone have a cat 5 patch
> >panel for your RJ-11 phones in the home? Currently, I am building a home
> >and have all phone lines and net lines home run into my basement, all via
> >their own dedicated cat5 cable. I have read that it is possible to plug a
> >regular RJ-11 phone into a RJ-45 port and, given that the back-end wiring
> >is right, have a working phone.
> >         What I would like to do is wire the house with all RJ-45 ports,
> >some connecting to the "data" switch, and others connecting to the phone,
> >and have an easy setup downstairs for "converting" ports from phone to
> >data without having to cut and strip wires.
> >
> >Does anyone know of a good patch panel which could be used for the
> >telephone lines downstairs? Ie, I want to be able to simply re-plumb from
> >the phone patch panel to the data switch in order to "convert" an RJ-45
> >port from being a "phone" to a "data" port. I am currently looking at the
> >various offerings from Pass and Seymour for doing this, though, it looks
> >like ports are still hard wired into their respective patch panels.
> >
> >If anyone has any suggestions, could you please post also whereabouts I
> >could find such items? If not, does anyone know of a local place for
> >purchasing Cat 5 telephone patch panels?
> >
> >
> >                                                 Thanks,
> >                                                         - Mike
> >--------------------------------------------------------------------
> >  Michael Kachline
> >  Systems Programmer
> >
> >  Intec Telecom Systems
> >--------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> >
> >
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>Leonard Thornton
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Leonard Thornton
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5960 Crooked Creek Rd
Suite 30
Norcross, GA  30092

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