- Feb 3, 2018
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Hey guys,
Recently bought a five-year-old house with cat5e phone lines and I’m looking at changing some of them to RJ45 ports to create a wired network but I’m a bit confused about what’s going on.
There is a box in my basement with a total of 8 white cables and 3 blue cables. There is a bundle of 3 white cables and 2 blue cables with the blue and blue-white ends spliced together. There is another bundle of two white cables with blue and blue-white ends spliced together and a third bundle with 3 non-terminated white cables and 1 non-terminated blue cable.
Looking through the house, I find 5 phone lines wired with white cat5 and 1 phone line wired with blue cable. 1 of the spliced blue cables from the basement is missing. I found 1 white and 1 blue non-terminated cables with 2 non-terminated white cables are still unaccounted for.
What is the best way to accomplish what I’m trying to do? Can I just terminate all the wires at the phone jacks to RJ45 and then terminate the cables in the basement at a patch panel or switch?
Is there a way to tell which cable is coming from the network Interface Device outside without actually tracing it?
Here are some pictures of what’s going on because I know it sounds confusing.
https://imgur.com/a/5p7cb
Recently bought a five-year-old house with cat5e phone lines and I’m looking at changing some of them to RJ45 ports to create a wired network but I’m a bit confused about what’s going on.
There is a box in my basement with a total of 8 white cables and 3 blue cables. There is a bundle of 3 white cables and 2 blue cables with the blue and blue-white ends spliced together. There is another bundle of two white cables with blue and blue-white ends spliced together and a third bundle with 3 non-terminated white cables and 1 non-terminated blue cable.
Looking through the house, I find 5 phone lines wired with white cat5 and 1 phone line wired with blue cable. 1 of the spliced blue cables from the basement is missing. I found 1 white and 1 blue non-terminated cables with 2 non-terminated white cables are still unaccounted for.
What is the best way to accomplish what I’m trying to do? Can I just terminate all the wires at the phone jacks to RJ45 and then terminate the cables in the basement at a patch panel or switch?
Is there a way to tell which cable is coming from the network Interface Device outside without actually tracing it?
Here are some pictures of what’s going on because I know it sounds confusing.
https://imgur.com/a/5p7cb
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