[ale] Home Wiring (was Re: cat5)

[rob hoppe]

Leonard Thornton wrote:

> 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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> The difficult while you wait.....the impossible overnight.
>
> Leonard Thornton
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RJ45 was designed to be patched to a 110 block not 66.  RJ11 phone only iuses the
center two 23, which equals 45 on the RJ45.


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