flyingcheesehead
Taxi to Parking
Hi folks,
I'm wiring some stuff for my parents. I have a run of Cat 5e going from one end of the house to the other now, but I've run into a snag.
The goal is to get an Ethernet (10/100 is plenty) connection from one end to the other (also, it's upstairs on one end and downstairs on the other), and also to get a phone line at the upstairs location. To that end, I'm using the orange and green pairs for the Ethernet (1-2-3-6, TIA-568B ) and I was hoping to use the blue and brown pairs for phone lines (the idea is to have the capability of having two phone lines, but only one is connected - The one that's on the blue pair).
So, upstairs will have the orange and green pairs terminated in an RJ45 jack, and the blue and brown pairs terminated in an RJ11 jack. That's done.
Downstairs, however, is "interesting." My parents had some remodeling done and put a kitchen where the laundry room used to be (they have a new laundry room upstairs). The electrical stuff is now in a closet to hide it. The old telephone punchdown block for the house was attached to a joist about 2 feet outside of where the electrical closet is. My mother, in her infinite wisdom, decided that the punchdown block was ugly and thus must be walled in (this after I warned her not to do that - Or at least move it to the closet). So, it's now inaccessible.
There is, however, one short run of Cat 5 that's attached to the phone line (blue pair) on one end, and runs down to the box where the downstairs jacks are going to be.
I was hoping to simply terminate the blue pairs of both runs of Cat5 into the RJ11 jack and have that work as a splice to send things upstairs. Unfortunately, that's not working. So, I somehow need to splice the blue pairs inside that box so that I have one pair going up the Cat5 to pick up the phone line, one going up the 5e to the upstairs, and now a third to terminate in the downstairs RJ11 jack.
The trick is, these all have to be connected inside a wall box downstairs. Do they make miniature punchdown blocks or some kind of splicers that will do this in a very confined area? I feel funny asking this question 'cuz I used to do this for my business sometimes (network, phone, and stereo wiring in the walls) but I must admit I never ran into someone who buried their punchdown block inside a wall.
Thanks.
I'm wiring some stuff for my parents. I have a run of Cat 5e going from one end of the house to the other now, but I've run into a snag.
The goal is to get an Ethernet (10/100 is plenty) connection from one end to the other (also, it's upstairs on one end and downstairs on the other), and also to get a phone line at the upstairs location. To that end, I'm using the orange and green pairs for the Ethernet (1-2-3-6, TIA-568B ) and I was hoping to use the blue and brown pairs for phone lines (the idea is to have the capability of having two phone lines, but only one is connected - The one that's on the blue pair).
So, upstairs will have the orange and green pairs terminated in an RJ45 jack, and the blue and brown pairs terminated in an RJ11 jack. That's done.
Downstairs, however, is "interesting." My parents had some remodeling done and put a kitchen where the laundry room used to be (they have a new laundry room upstairs). The electrical stuff is now in a closet to hide it. The old telephone punchdown block for the house was attached to a joist about 2 feet outside of where the electrical closet is. My mother, in her infinite wisdom, decided that the punchdown block was ugly and thus must be walled in (this after I warned her not to do that - Or at least move it to the closet). So, it's now inaccessible.
There is, however, one short run of Cat 5 that's attached to the phone line (blue pair) on one end, and runs down to the box where the downstairs jacks are going to be.
I was hoping to simply terminate the blue pairs of both runs of Cat5 into the RJ11 jack and have that work as a splice to send things upstairs. Unfortunately, that's not working. So, I somehow need to splice the blue pairs inside that box so that I have one pair going up the Cat5 to pick up the phone line, one going up the 5e to the upstairs, and now a third to terminate in the downstairs RJ11 jack.
The trick is, these all have to be connected inside a wall box downstairs. Do they make miniature punchdown blocks or some kind of splicers that will do this in a very confined area? I feel funny asking this question 'cuz I used to do this for my business sometimes (network, phone, and stereo wiring in the walls) but I must admit I never ran into someone who buried their punchdown block inside a wall.
Thanks.
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) Then, the Ethernet is going to connect the main DSL router to a second WiFi router. So, there will be data going back and forth through both at roughly the same time. If that's gonna cause a lot of packet loss, then I'm gonna need to change something.
