Hi!
I have a spare CAT6 rack-mountable patch panel lying around. I've purchased keystone cat5e jacks for telephone, that support up to 4 lines per jack.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I'd go about wiring this to the extra patch panel? Right now, we have an RJ11 cable running from the cable modem to the house phone.
I was thinking of taking the cable modem, mounting it on a rack-mountable shelf, then running that RJ11 to the patch panel, but cutting the tip off to punch it down, and just daisy chaining it to every port (on the punch down side).
If we get another phone line (for fax, for instance), I'd just daisy chain the RJ11 cable to two other pairs of the punch down side of every port.
Then, for each room, just run the CAT5e and punch it down like I'd normally do it.
Just not sure what wires get punched where. Do I follow the TIA-568B standard or something that we use for ethernet? I'd imagine it wouldn't matter too much, since I'd just be using the punch down side and never the port side. So long as the incoming lines that where daisy chained to each port match up with the correct cat5e wires, I should be good, right?
Maybe something like the attached picture? This is just an example of how I'd wire a simple 6-port patch panel. The colours are just made up, they don't represent real colours. Would this work?
The incoming line probably only uses two of the four wires, so I'd only punch down two. And any additional lines, I'd wire those two down to the next set, so on and so forth. I just showed an incoming line with two numbers in the example, to show how it'd look. Hope that doesn't confuse anyone.
I have a spare CAT6 rack-mountable patch panel lying around. I've purchased keystone cat5e jacks for telephone, that support up to 4 lines per jack.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I'd go about wiring this to the extra patch panel? Right now, we have an RJ11 cable running from the cable modem to the house phone.
I was thinking of taking the cable modem, mounting it on a rack-mountable shelf, then running that RJ11 to the patch panel, but cutting the tip off to punch it down, and just daisy chaining it to every port (on the punch down side).
If we get another phone line (for fax, for instance), I'd just daisy chain the RJ11 cable to two other pairs of the punch down side of every port.
Then, for each room, just run the CAT5e and punch it down like I'd normally do it.
Just not sure what wires get punched where. Do I follow the TIA-568B standard or something that we use for ethernet? I'd imagine it wouldn't matter too much, since I'd just be using the punch down side and never the port side. So long as the incoming lines that where daisy chained to each port match up with the correct cat5e wires, I should be good, right?
Maybe something like the attached picture? This is just an example of how I'd wire a simple 6-port patch panel. The colours are just made up, they don't represent real colours. Would this work?
The incoming line probably only uses two of the four wires, so I'd only punch down two. And any additional lines, I'd wire those two down to the next set, so on and so forth. I just showed an incoming line with two numbers in the example, to show how it'd look. Hope that doesn't confuse anyone.
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