RJ 11 keystone jack help

[Duke{CLR}]

I have begun the process of hooking up my network in the new house and I have successfully hooked up two of RJ 45 plugs to my patch panel but when I went to hook up the phone connection I realized that there were no colors to guide me on hooking up the phone line. I also remember phone lin I goggled but could not find an answer.

In addition to the lack of colors on the jack I also don't remember phone line having 5 wires and they were different colors.

Can anyone tell me what colors go to what numbers for a standard phone connection.

[Duke{CLR}]

I found this image. I think the old colors were red, black, green and yellow and now they are the stripped colors shown. It would appear that i can put the white with orange stripes on the number 2 pin, Is this correct?

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[Duke{CLR}]

Well it looks like the sample wire was missing the solid green wire, I just clipped another sample and there are 6 wires. I think it should look like this.

[NateTheBrewer]

A talk path (one phone line) just involves a pair of wires. One wire is the 'ring' and the other is the 'tip'. These days it does not matter TOO much if you get them switched, but for legacy use you should get it right.

Coming out of your NID from the phone company, they used to use red for ring and green for tip on the first line. For a second line, they used yellow for ring and black for tip.

If you have a newer NID, everything will be green and red, since people may have more than 2 phone lines.

From there into the house, you will only be using 2 pairs on the CAT6... If you had 4 lines you can do what we do in our call center - run 4 pairs to a wiring box and terminate 2 of them into one jack and 2 of them into the other.

It does not really matter which 2 wires you use, as long as you keep them consistent. If you want to do it right (how it would be done professionally) though, you use blue for line 1 and orange for line 2. The ones that are solid colored with white stripes are the ring, and the ones that are white with the blue stripes are tip. As you saw by the diagram posted, the first line is in the center, and the second lines sit on the 'outside' of the first... Phones are my thing, we have 1.5-2 dozen 66-blocks feeding our office, so let me know if you ever have some phone questions.

[Duke{CLR}]

Phones are my thing, we have 1.5-2 dozen 66-blocks feeding our office, so let me know if you ever have some phone questions.

Thanks, I will punch them down according to that diagram. I haven't even decided how I will be getting the land line but it will probably be from Comcast. I hope to have them put in whatever they need on the wall next to my punch panel so I can distribute them from there.

I'm sure I will be posting more about this networking stuff seeing as I'm just getting started on it.

[NateTheBrewer]

Thanks, I will punch them down according to that diagram. I haven't even decided how I will be getting the land line but it will probably be from Comcast. I hope to have them put in whatever they need on the wall next to my punch panel so I can distribute them from there.

I'm sure I will be posting more about this networking stuff seeing as I'm just getting started on it.

If you are running everything new, why not just terminate everything as a normal RJ45 network connection. You can determine if you want something to be a phone or network connection from the patch panel, You can plug an RJ11 terminated cable into an RJ45 connector... This would help with future proofing...

[Duke{CLR}]

If you are running everything new, why not just terminate everything as a normal RJ45 network connection. You can determine if you want something to be a phone or network connection from the patch panel, You can plug an RJ11 terminated cable into an RJ45 connector... This would help with future proofing...

I ran the tiny phone wire because I ran out of the cable I had ordered. Now that I know the RJ 11 plugs into the RJ45 I guess I could have just used the extras I plugged in. You can see my original post on this subject here. http://www.cainslair.com/showthread.php?t=20931