Cat5 to rj11 converter

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Martin This person is a verified professional. Ghost Chili. AR-Beekeeper This person is a verified professional. They are used in pairs for each phone line you have.

LINE 1 uses the red-green pair. Line 2 uses the yellow-black pair. The cable is very small, as are the wires inside, and should not be confused with electrical wires , which are much larger.

No, it has 4 wires, 2 pairs. Additionally the wires in a phone cable are not twisted to prevent cross-talk. Re: Possible to convert phone lines to ethernet jacks? As long as you don't try to use anything past Mbps ethernet , it might work. The issue is going to be the quality and construction of the existing phone cable.

Network cables are usually thicker and rounder than a telephone cable. Network cables , including Cat5 , Cat5e, Cat6, Cat6a, etc. While phone cables are narrower and flat, and are made up of four wires.

Ethernet cables have a larger bandwidth than phone cables. Users can send and receive more data, at quicker speeds, via Ethernet cables. Phone cables have a smaller bandwidth and data takes longer to move across a network. Cat 6 for telephone? AFAIK you can use it just fine. As GG said, Cat6 is better then you need for voice so it would work just fine.

RJ11 plugs can permanently damage your RJ45 socket. Search In. Share More sharing options Followers 0. Recommended Posts. Posted October 13, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options Marshalus Veteran Posted October 13, Again, not to spec but would probably work fine.

For a simple phone line, the rest of the wires are superfluous. Simple analog phones don't even really care about polarity. If you look at some of the phone cords you get with phones, some of them even flip the wiring. All you real phone folks - don't slap me. Your 4-pin end would be pins in the diagram.

Oops, I looked at that again. Wire your jack as the diagram shows as well rather than B. Quote: One end of the cable will plug into an existing provided by the phone company box - so I need to attach an RJ11 jack to it. Red Flag This Post Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

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