CatSnoutSoup
NES Member
Not ham wiring, home wiring. Figured I would ask here as it might focus the question toward being seen by the more technically minded.
After many years without use our home Ethernet wiring is going to be put to use (cable company finally is going to expanding their plant out here into the woods).
So I have been testing all the connections electricians wired when I build the place 15 years ago.
I have a cheap $28 Klein network cable tester, which was good enough to find one RJ45 jack in the garage had been miswired. Guy had crossed the Green and Green/White, but I was able to carefully pull them up swap them and re-punch them. So all the cable runs for networking ( Cat5e BC) are properly terminated at the wall jacks and the distribution panel. The panel runs to a new TP-Link switch that I installed and patched in with some flat Cat7 cables.
So here is my issue all of the network and phone wiring are terminated in RJ45 jacks wired to T568A standard. By design there are no RJ11 phone jacks the RJ45 can accept an RJ11 plug.
The idea was that a cable run dedicated to telephone could be converted to network use just by disconnecting it from the phone panel and terminating it to a network panel that was configured for T568A.
That is what I want to do with one of those telephone cable runs.
If you look at the photo you will see the network distribution panel in the upper left. Notice that there is one open spot #5.
In the lower left you see a bundle of Cat5e cables, striped and then punched onto the telephone punch down block.
I want to take one specific phone cable associated with a jack in our living room and move it to the empty space on the network board, problem is I do not know which one in that bundle it is.
We do not use the phone wiring at all, we do not have landline service but I do not want to disconnect all that work.
I have a very cheap tone line tracer and I have tried plugging the emitter into the jack in the living room and using the probe to check for the wire at the panel.
Trouble is they are all toning at about the same volume. Either the line tracer is not isolating enough or it is simply because all of those phone lines are wired in parallel so they are all seeing the emitter.
OK so how can I deduce which line from that bundle in the lower left leads to the jack in the living room without tearing out all the wiring on that phone punch down block???
Photo is big to allow folks to zoom....
After many years without use our home Ethernet wiring is going to be put to use (cable company finally is going to expanding their plant out here into the woods).
So I have been testing all the connections electricians wired when I build the place 15 years ago.
I have a cheap $28 Klein network cable tester, which was good enough to find one RJ45 jack in the garage had been miswired. Guy had crossed the Green and Green/White, but I was able to carefully pull them up swap them and re-punch them. So all the cable runs for networking ( Cat5e BC) are properly terminated at the wall jacks and the distribution panel. The panel runs to a new TP-Link switch that I installed and patched in with some flat Cat7 cables.
So here is my issue all of the network and phone wiring are terminated in RJ45 jacks wired to T568A standard. By design there are no RJ11 phone jacks the RJ45 can accept an RJ11 plug.
The idea was that a cable run dedicated to telephone could be converted to network use just by disconnecting it from the phone panel and terminating it to a network panel that was configured for T568A.
That is what I want to do with one of those telephone cable runs.
If you look at the photo you will see the network distribution panel in the upper left. Notice that there is one open spot #5.
In the lower left you see a bundle of Cat5e cables, striped and then punched onto the telephone punch down block.
I want to take one specific phone cable associated with a jack in our living room and move it to the empty space on the network board, problem is I do not know which one in that bundle it is.
We do not use the phone wiring at all, we do not have landline service but I do not want to disconnect all that work.
I have a very cheap tone line tracer and I have tried plugging the emitter into the jack in the living room and using the probe to check for the wire at the panel.
Trouble is they are all toning at about the same volume. Either the line tracer is not isolating enough or it is simply because all of those phone lines are wired in parallel so they are all seeing the emitter.
OK so how can I deduce which line from that bundle in the lower left leads to the jack in the living room without tearing out all the wiring on that phone punch down block???
Photo is big to allow folks to zoom....
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