[ale] Home Wiring (was Re: cat5)

[rob hoppe]

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
>

The 45 pair in a RJ45 is available.  I wired a set in my home.  I can plug a
RJ11 modem or phone in the same connector.  They are twisted for CAT5 but good
for phone.

The RJ45 and RJ11 are squared off for this purpose!

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