[mdlug] OT: Home Network Wiring ?

Sat Aug 16 14:51:02 EDT 2008

It sounds like you have something like this:

http://tinyurl.com/5g4yaz
http://www.leviton.com/OA_HTML/ibeCCtpSctDspRte.jsp?section=11641&minisite=10027&Filter=Y&jfn=ZGD28E3B1FC568B764B6181C9059DFCAB2148141AD308A53F44A829C814CEDA35F6C7051C4D918924631C4648EC6F5F38E80&oas=xzO1BMM40a6wVXtd5dTjmQ..

and what Ron is suggesting is this:

http://tinyurl.com/5agxvo
http://www.leviton.com/OA_HTML/ibeCCtpSctDspRte.jsp?section=10371&minisite=10027&Filter=Y&jfn=ZG4E26A9D4D72018A9E8DE310FCFBD9E23567794257551E5BB746AADC7767C61AB95386DD3FAE348EF2EDA78D7F982F9AA14&oas=ca0u5A0SuMngOXVvz9zV4w..

which looks fine for $25.

You don't actually need to rewire - presuming that the wire is CAT5
or better, you can run 100Mbps ethernet on two of the pair, and
your voice line(s) on the others.  

1GE requires all 4 pair - if it's CAT5E and you're willing to lose
the phone jack you can do that too.

i'll assume you want 100M and the phone.

Your wall jacks are probably fine, but make sure that they are cat5 rated
also.  The data jack may need to be repunched.

let's say the bottom jack will be phone and the top ether.

for twisted pair, an RJ45 jack is wired like this (ORange, Orange/White,
GReen, BLue, BLueWhite, etc):
      ___________
----- |  -----  | -----
OR OW GR BL BW GW BR BW

100M enet uses the orange and green pairs.  

a single phone line will use the blue pair; a dual-line jack will use the green
pair also.

Of course, the colors per se don't matter, they are just a coding
standard for which pair goes to which pins on the RJ45.

See how your existing wall jacks are wired.  If you're lucky, one is wired to
the orange and green pins and the other is wired to the green & blue pins.
i bet they're both on green & blue, so you'll have to repunch one of them to
match.

Leave the other jack alone, and leave the appropriate two pair punched to your 
telephone panel.  

pull the other two pair out of your telephone panel, and as necessary strip away
some insulation to give yourself room to work.

take the other two pair and punch them to the data punch panel, matching the
wire color to the jack color like you did on the jacks.

This article explains the general idea, and has some pics:
http://www.mavromatic.com/archives/000458

For tools, i'd suggest you avoid the expensive punchdown tool at
home depot, and just get something like this:
http://www.amazon.com/DataShark-70034-Non-Impact-Punchdown-Tool/dp/B000KMFDZ0
or even this:
http://www.milestek.com/shop/product.asp?id=40%2040302&cid=&kwd=&l=&p=

Or borrow one.

if you have more questions drop me a line, it's probably better to talk
on the phone.

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 02:08:56PM -0400, Wojtak, Greg wrote:
> So the way it sounds now is that this is for phone only?  Not sure how
> to run the cable now - I'm on a slab, otherwise I would just sloppily
> duct tape it to the rafters in the basement.  :D  Any suggestions how to
> run the cable in such a scenario?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf
> Of Ron Blanchett
> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 1:40 PM
> To: MDLUG's Main discussion list
> Subject: Re: [mdlug] OT: Home Network Wiring ?
> 
> Greg,
> 
> I have that same box in my house and the punch board in your box is
> for phone only.
> Leviton does make an Ethernet Punch board ($25.00).
> I would suggest going to your local Home Depot and looking for one.
> http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10051&langId=-1&catalogId=10053&productId=100062860&N=10000003+90072
> 
> Then rewire the bottom jacks in all your rooms to the ethernet board
> with at least cat5e cable.
> I am getting ready to do this in my home sometime in the next 6 months
> (winter project list).
> 
> -Ron
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Wojtak, Greg
> <GregWojtak at quickenloans.com> wrote:
> > I figured that there is more than enough brain power in this list to
> > help me out with this networking set up.  I have one of the Leviton
> > central home data/comm wiring setups.  In each room, I have a dual
> RJ-45
> > jack.  The orange and blue pair are tied to the top jack, and the
> brown
> > and green are tied to the bottom.  In the garage is a punch down block
> > with 9 slots on it, labeled 0 - 8.  Looking at the board itself, it
> > looks like the paths simply tie each wire together, ie there is a
> trace
> > running from wire 1 from slot 0 all the way down to slot 8.  How can I
> > wire my cable modem into this to get phone and teh internets in each
> > room?  Is that even possible from what I've described?
> >
> > My original thought was that I could run a piece of cat5 from the
> cable
> > modem to block 0 on the board, which I presume to be an input and
> punch
> > in the orange and blue pair.  Since our phone is tied through the
> cable
> > modem as well, I was going to then punch in a phone cable from the
> phone
> > jack on the cable modem into the remaining slots.
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas on this?  I can clarify on any points that are
> > unclear.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Greg
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