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q95
Nov 7th, 2009, 09:46 AM
I am in the middle of building a new office in my basement, and I want to try and wire a new jack by myself. The other rooms in my house are already wired (I hired a guy to do it years ago). But I am confused about the color codes.

I first Google Searched cat5e color codes, and found this page: http://www.duxcw.com/digest/Howto/network/cable/cable5.htm

That page explained color codes for 568A and 568B. My understanding is I want to use 568A. It lists the color codes as:

1. White/Green
2. Green
3. White/Orange
4. Blue
5. White/Blue
6. Orange
7. White/Brown
8. Brown

I purchased some cat5e cable, and was able to connect it to the female RJ45 post. Below are 2 photos of my connection:

http://bayimg.com/image/paebkaacm.jpg
http://bayimg.com/image/paeblaacm.jpg

Now the part I need help with. The guy I hired to wire the house before installed a network panel. Here is what the panel looks like:
(NOTE: The gray cables are telephone cables, and the blue are cat5e ethernet):

http://bayimg.com/image/paebmaacm.jpg

Unless I am reading this panel wrong, it looks like the wire colors are:

1. brown
2. white/brown
3. green
4. white/green
5. orange
6. white/orange
7. blue
8. white/blue

To make things even more confusing, if you look at the top left of the panel board, you can see the model # "ICRDSVPA10". I googled this and believe I found the PDF doc for this panel here: http://www.computercablestore.com/PDF/ICRDSDPA10.pdf

The PDF doc says: "Wiring in accordance to T-568-A for residential use". The PDF doc also shows a diagram of the panel, and lists the colors as: BLUE, GREEN, ORANGE, BROWN. It does not label the any of the WHITE/BLUE, WHITE/GREEN, WHITE/ORANGE, WHITE/BROWN locations. Is this the PDF manual trying to tell me the color code is:
1. Blue
2. White/Blue
3. Green
4. White/Green
5. Orange
6. White/Orange
7. Brown
8. White Brown

Is that what its telling me? I am totally confused about what color order to use on my panel. Could anyone help me?

Blackjack
Nov 7th, 2009, 01:41 PM
Well, for starters, I'd pick up a network cable tester like:http://cty.ca/productdetails.asp?pid=2673. This unit is fine for light use. Your jack wiring(as far as I can tell looks ok) for 568a.

betamaxman
Nov 7th, 2009, 04:26 PM
Just follow what ever sequence he used on the other end of whatever cable you are doing. If you are stringing new cable then the patern you pulled down is fine. Basicaly all that is really required is that whatever sequence is used on one end is repeated on the other. The wires them selves are all the same in composition.

q95
Nov 7th, 2009, 07:03 PM
I got it working!

Thank you for the messages everyone.

pax1234
Nov 7th, 2009, 08:58 PM
1. White/Green
2. Green
3. White/Orange
4. Blue
5. White/Blue
6. Orange
7. White/Brown
8. Brown

This is the correct pin outs for 100meg Ethernet. The transmit and receive twisted pairs are 1, 2 and 3,6. The other two pairs are not used. It doesn't matter what color to use, as long as both end of the cable is matched.

1. brown
2. white/brown
3. green
4. white/green
5. orange
6. white/orange
7. blue
8. white/blue

This pin out is incorrect, it is for a 10meg Ethernet only, you will get lots of data errors when you try to use this pin outs on a 100 meg Ethernet circuit. Because the pair for pin 3 and pin 6 are on two different twisted pairs (green and white/orange). This wiring is for the old days when 100 megs Ethernet is only for businesses, residential were all 10 megs.

I am not sure if Rogers cable modem is still 10 mag or not. This wiring will work ok if Rogers cable modem is 10meg, since the computer will auto negotiate to use 10 meg to match it.

You will run into problems when you are using a wired router or hub to connect all the other computer in the house using the 10 meg pin outs. Since all the newer computers is capable of using 100 megs, they are all connected in 100 meg speed on a 10 meg Ethernet cables. You will get lots of data errors and retransmissions when you are exchanging big files between the two computers.