On August 5, 2014 at 15:26, Duct Tape said...
pins 1,2,3, and 6 on an rj45 are used for 10/100 networks.
so if you use the orange and green pairs for 1,2,3, and 6, that will leave the blue and brown pairs for telephone lines.
On August 5, 2014 at 20:07, netarc said...
So basically instead of punching down the brown pair into the cat5 jack, run these up to the telco jack, eh?
There's nothing sacred about any colors of CAT5 wires. I choose to use blue and orange for phone a) in case two pairs are needed, b) those are standard phone wire colors, and c) since the data connection is not being done the ordinary way, there's no way its color code can be normal.
Or maybe it comes down to choosing to honor a two-pair data color code or a two-pair phone color code.
