Terminating RJ11 as RJ45 and plugging into a switch.

AliMickey · Oct 7, 2018

This similar question has been asked before but none of them described my situation.

I used to have ADSL, i moved to a wireless solution taking along my internet and phone line. I converted the DSL wall plug into an RJ45 and plugged it into my switch. If i was to order a phone service over DSL, plug my home phone into the switch would it work?

Or will i need to reterminate the DSL connection to an RJ11 and do it that way?

Thanks.

jsmithepa · Oct 7, 2018

Nope. U don't need to do anything.

U can use a RJ11 cable just fine on a RJ45 jack, just make sure the other side of that jack is feeding you DSL signal.

AliMickey · Oct 7, 2018

jsmithepa :

ok, ill try and post back. also side question. is it better to connect two switches directly to the router or would going from router->switch->switch be equally fine?
thanks

jsmithepa · Oct 8, 2018

AliMickey :

Sometimes you don't have a choice such as when: router(room1) ---> S1(room2)--->S2(room3), because you have only 1 cable between room1 and room2 and room3 but those rooms needs multiple devices hooked up.

When Router and S1 and S2 are in the same room and in close proximity is customary to:

Router (lan1)--->S1
Router (lan2)--->S2
Router (lan3)--->S3 etc.

This "custom" can be explained because the Internet is the most common resource, and hooking things up like above give every client the same number of "hops" to get to the Internet. Fair to everybody. Can also think of the above as having multiple check out lanes with each lane handling more or less the same amount of clients and sharing the load equally.

If you Router --> S1 -->S2. All Internet traffic then must go through S1, and S1 may get overloaded, it can become an unfair burden to S1. Not that any ethernet switch had failed on me, but daisy-chaining this way also places S1 as the single point of failure (this box down, everything down) for every client.

That's the gist.

AliMickey · Oct 8, 2018

jsmithepa :

AliMickey :

Sometimes you don't have a choice such as when: router(room1) ---> S1(room2)--->S2(room3), because you have only 1 cable between room1 and room2 and room3 but those rooms needs multiple devices hooked up.

When Router and S1 and S2 are in the same room and in close proximity is customary to:

Router (lan1)--->S1
Router (lan2)--->S2
Router (lan3)--->S3 etc.

This "custom" can be explained because the Internet is the most common resource, and hooking things up like above give every client the same number of "hops" to get to the Internet. Fair to everybody. Can also think of the above as having multiple check out lanes with each lane handling more or less the same amount of clients and sharing the load equally.

If you Router --> S1 -->S2. All Internet traffic then must go through S1, and S1 may get overloaded, it can become an unfair burden to S1. Not that any ethernet switch had failed on me, but daisy-chaining this way also places S1 as the single point of failure (this box down, everything down) for every client.

That's the gist.

right, thanks for the reply.

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