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blue – blue white line 1
orange – orange white line 2
green – green white line 3
brown -brown white line 4
top port
red jack lead to blue
green to blue white
yellow to orange
black to orng wht
bottom port
red jack lead to green
green to grn wht
yellow to brown
black to brwn wht
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Jim, in addition to the above check out:
http://www.avinfo.com/rj45cat5.htm
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/4116/links.html
I also reccomend using a big punchblock for home run wiring. It's a quick change after the fact to make line 1 in room c be line 4 in rooms a,c&f.
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The site Home Tech
has info on phones & data communication ad nauseum. they also sell most of the equipment you'll need, good quality at better prices.
*Damn I'm begining to really like this place.I knew the Christmas colors thing and thats about it. Anyone know the ring back code for Bell Atlantic I used to know it but forgot (958?) or something like that. It connects you to the central station and a computer voice gives you the number of the line your on.
*JimTwo-three months ago I finished the cabling in my house. I got most of my supplies from a company called Anixter, you can get their "Structured Cabling Solutions catalog which has all of their communication jacks, cross connect blocks etc, by calling 1-800-anixter.I would recommend using commercial grade equipment for several reasons. First, you get better quality equipment for not a whole lot more than the cheap stuff that you get at the local hardware store. (all of the supplies for my house, cat-5 jacks, co-ax ports, face plates and a cat-5 cross connect block for my house cost about 130 bucks or so)Second, it generally makes for a cleaner installation. You can get multi-port single gang face plates that allow you to mix an match the connections that you have at each location. For example you could have four phone lines, and a couple of co-ax ports all in one single face plate.Home run everything as someone else suggested above. It makes making changes later easier. And if you use cat-3 or cat-5 cabling, (recommended its not all that much more expensive) you should also use cat-3 or 5 jacks, otherwise why spend the extra $ for better cable and then terminate with cheap jacks.Just my two centsScott
*Yes, the number is 958. Have fun.SHG
*ring back codes or line ID codes are usually changed every couple weeks, at least here in US Pest territory.
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I ran 4-pair wire to several locations in an addition I built. I want to connect to dual port jack terminals so that I have 4 lines coming in. Each port has a red, green, black, and yellow wire on the back. Can anybody please help me with the proper connections to each port. I know only two colors are needed per line, but don't know which. Thanks in advance.
*Standard connections in my neck o the woods (SNET and NYNEX, CT/NY area) are the red and green wires. Think Christmas colors, which is how I remember...
*How sentimental! I also recommend a jack tester, very inexpensive from HD or maybe Radio shack. Has LED's to show that Line 1 and Line 2 are active and of correct polarity -- in my case the phone company drop wire had it backwards. Good for troubleshooting.I hope you used at least Cat 3 wire -- with modems and such, line noise is a bigger deal than it used to be.
*blue - blue white line 1orange - orange white line 2green - green white line 3brown -brown white line 4top port red jack lead to blue green to blue white yellow to orangeblack to orng whtbottom portred jack lead to greengreen to grn whtyellow to brownblack to brwn wht
*There are two type of phone jacks commonly used in residential applications. They both use the same miniature 6-pin modular jack.The first one, commonly called a "one-line" jack, supports a single phone line. It's referred to by the FCC as Type RJ-11W (wall mount) or RJ-11C (all other mounts). On this jack, the two wire leads for the line, called "Tip" and "Ring" in the telephone industry, get connected to the middle two pins (pins 3 &4). Red and Green colors are traditional used to idenfiy these. Which wire you connect to pin 3 and which to pin 4 doesn't matter, since they get mixed up so often that telephones, modems, fax machines, etc. are all designed to handle either case.The 2-line jack is referred to as an RJ-14W or RJ-14C. You can plug a 2-line phone to this jack directly, or plug 2 one-line phones to it with an adapter. This jack uses pins 3 & 4 for Line 1, similar to the RJ-11, and the next 2 outmost pins (pins 2 & 5) for Line 2. The Line 2 colors are traditionally yellow and black. Again, polarity doesn't matter.The Telephone Co's Network Interface Device (NID) box at the side of the house should have a clearly labelled terminal strip indicating tip (T) and ring (R) for each of the four incoming lines, Just hook up each of the 8 wires (4 pair) in your cable to the appropriate screw terminal (according to how you wired up the jacks, and which jack you want to be Line 1, which you want to be Line 2, etc.).
*There's a square dance call in there somewhere.Grab your partner!Rich Beckman