ethernet wiring

Derek Trotter expat.arizonan at gmail.com
Sun Nov 20 13:21:18 MST 2011


Here's a site I have bookmarked.  I just checked and it's still there.

http://www.incentre.net/content/view/75/2/

It will show you what color wires to put where.

On 11/20/2011 13:05, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> Just remember there is no magic to it. You have 2 wires for TX and 2
> for RX. As long as the wires match on each end (pin 1 to pin 1, pin 2
> to pin 2, etc.) it does not matter what color they are.
>
> On 11/20/11, Brian Cluff<brian at snaptek.com>  wrote:
>> First off, you shouldn't need to strip the wires when putting them into
>> the jack,  The jacks are designed to cut through the shielding and make
>> a connection directly though the shielding.  In fact, I'll bet that the
>> connections are much more likely to corrode if you strip them first.
>>
>> As for the color sequence.  They change a bit depending on what style of
>> jack you have and how much the wires twist inside the jack itself.  Just
>> go ahead and wire up the jack in the color order that the jack dictates
>> and it shouldn't matter if they are in different physical orders on the
>> back of the jack.
>>
>> As for the Jack that shows yellow brown white red etc... It sounds like
>> you got a hold of an rj45 based telecom jack.  I would take that back
>> and get one that is made for networking.  You could probably get it to
>> work just fine if you can figure out the correct wiring order, but why
>> not do it right in the first place...
>>
>> Brian
>>
>> On 11/20/2011 11:28 AM, Michael Havens wrote:
>>> So I'm connecting my brothers computer to the internet . I ran the wire
>>> under the house yesterday (I let him do that... I didn't want to get
>>> dirty) and drilled a hole today and fed the cable through the hole. Then
>>> I stripped the cable; first the blue pair, then the green pair, the.....
>>> I'm sure you get the point. Anyways I'm all excited because now I'm
>>> going to connect the wires to the jack, then I'll do the other side,
>>> then my brother is in business! Except I sit down to connect the other
>>> side when I see a nightmare: instead of blue-green-orange-brown wires
>>> the colors of the wires are blue, orange, black, red, green, yellow,
>>> brown, and white; each designated with a number: 1 to 8. Any idea how I
>>> should wire these?
>>>
>>> --
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>
>>>
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