RJ45 Cat5e cables - male one one end, female (keystone) on other
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Posted by on July 21, 2005, 3:48 pm
Please log in for more thread options I'm going to be doing a Cat5e wiring project in my home. I plan on having wall plates in various places, including the home office. These will all have keystone jacks. The other ends of the cables will all terminate in the basement, to be plugged into a switch. These ends will all have male RJ45 connectors. My question is this: when I wire the keystone jacks, do I follow their wiring diagram, or go opposite of it, as the other end won't have a keystone jack but a male RJ45 connector. I realize I want all the wiring to end up straight-through. (The keystone jack in the office will be used to attach to a router via a patch cable. The router connects to a cable modem and other computers in the office.) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by James Knott on July 21, 2005, 7:33 pm
Please log in for more thread options pjhartman@gmail.com wrote: What you should do, is visualize the conductors passing through the connectors. Do they match up? Yes, you follow the standard wiring. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Doug McIntyre on July 22, 2005, 3:02 am
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pjhartman@gmail.com writes: >I'm going to be doing a Cat5e wiring project in my home. I plan on
>having wall plates in various places, including the home office. These >will all have keystone jacks. The other ends of the cables will all >terminate in the basement, to be plugged into a switch. These ends >will all have male RJ45 connectors. I'd recommend against that. Spend the $100 on a patch-panel for the basement, and terminate your cable into that. A couple years down the road, you won't have to be redoing the ends, because solid crimps that flex (ie. into a switch) just don't hold up for years and years. >My question is this: when I wire the keystone jacks, do I follow their
>wiring diagram, or go opposite of it, as the other end won't have a >keystone jack but a male RJ45 connector. I realize I want all the >wiring to end up straight-through. Its all straight-through. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by pjhartman@gmail.com on August 1, 2005, 6:35 pm
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Just a follow-up on how the wiring project went. I decided to take the advice of the knowledgeable folks here, and terminated both ends of all Cat5e UTP solid core with keystones; I didn't have enough (6) to really necessitate a patch panel. I then used short patch cables to connect to the switch. All of the lines tested out on the first try, and she's up and running. The only casualty was about 2 lbs of water weight that came out as sweat as I ran lines to & from the very hot attic. Thanks to all who offered their advice on my project. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by on July 22, 2005, 11:13 pm
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pjhartman@gmail.com wrote: >
> I'm going to be doing a Cat5e wiring project in my home. I plan on > having wall plates in various places, including the home office. These > will all have keystone jacks. The other ends of the cables will all > terminate in the basement, to be plugged into a switch. These ends > will all have male RJ45 connectors. Don't do that. Either get a patch panel or, if you don't have too many cables, more keystone jacks, and then use patch cables to connect to the switch. -Larry Jones He's just jealous because I accomplish so much more than he does. -- Calvin | ||||||||||||||||||||||
> having wall plates in various places, including the home office. These
> will all have keystone jacks. The other ends of the cables will all
> terminate in the basement, to be plugged into a switch. These ends
> will all have male RJ45 connectors.
>
> My question is this: when I wire the keystone jacks, do I follow their
> wiring diagram, or go opposite of it, as the other end won't have a
> keystone jack but a male RJ45 connector. I realize I want all the
> wiring to end up straight-through.
>
> (The keystone jack in the office will be used to attach to a router via
> a patch cable. The router connects to a cable modem and other
> computers in the office.)