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Cat5e cable has blue/blue-white, green/green-white, orange/orange-white, and brown/brown-white wires. The RJ-45 wall jack as white, red, yellow, black, blue, green, orange, and brown. Instructions say to match the colors. Hard to match red, yellow, white, and black, with blue stripe, green stripe, brown stripe, and orange stripe. What stripe color do you match with the remaining 4 solid colors?
The RJ45 wallplate is not meant for ethernet. It's an 8P8C connector for a phone. Will it work as a network jack? Maybe. I wouldn't use it, but if you really want to try, wire it thusly:
1 Blue --- Orange/White 2 Orange --- Orange 3 Black --- Green/White 4 Red --- Blue 5 Green --- Blue/White 6 Yellow --- Green 7 Brown --- Brown/White 8 White --- Brown
I'd still recommend a CAT5 wallplate with a CAT5 jack.
This wiring diagram was spot on. I love Google and all the smart people who post solutions. Thanks for the help.This wiring diagram was spot on. I love Google and all the smart people who post solutions. Thanks for the help.
Thank you. I've got all tools and know how to install a proper RJ-45 jack, but somehow this RCA POS ended up getting accidentally purchased and the receipt lost.
Your answer really helped me make the best of a bad hand. THANK YOU.Thank you. I've got all tools and know how to install a proper RJ-45 jack, but somehow this RCA POS ended up getting accidentally purchased and the receipt lost.
Your answer really helped me make the best of a bad hand. THANK YOU.
Technopal09, I just bought an RCA-branded RJ45 wall plate that clearly indicates, "terminates in-wall Cat5e installations". It has the same color wires that the asker described. How do we find the correct wall plate if we thought we were purchasing for Cat5?
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The wires/colors in a category 5e cable run in pairs. They should be tightly twisted together, mostly white with a blue tracer. mostly blue with a white tracer- mostly white with an orange tracer- mostly orange with a white tracer, mostly white with a green tracer- mostly green with a whte tracer, and mostly white with a brown tracer- mostly brown with a white tracer.The jack you have sounds like a standard telephone or cat. 3 jack. If the jack is being used for a standard telephone line, you'll need to connect one of the wire pairs(usually the white/blue pair) to the green and red terminals on the jack.Make sure that the same pair is also terminated at the main telephone junction.
Side 1 Side 2 White Orange White Orange Orange Orange White green White Green Blue Blue White Blue White Blue Green Green White Brown White Brown Brown Brown
Cross Cabling :
Side 1 Side 2 White Orange White Green Orange Green White Green White Orange Blue Blue White Blue White Blue Green Orange White Brown White Brown Brown Brown
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568-B Wiring Pair Wires RJ-45 pins 1-White/Blue White/Blue 5 Blue/White 4 2-Wht./Orange White/Orange 1 Orange White 2 3-White/Green White/Green 3 Green/White 6 4-White/Brown White/Brown 7 Brown/White 8 568-A Wiring 1-White/Blue White/Blue 5 Blue/White 4 2-White/Green White/Green 1 Green/White 2 3-White/Orange White/Orange 3 Orange/White 6 4-White/Brown White/Brown 7 Brown/White 8
RJ-45 Pins are with the spring tab down and read left to right. Do you have an RJ-45 Crimping tool?
Just use 568-B or 568-A on both ends of the same cable.
Pin Std Phillips 1 White/Orange BLUE 2 Orange Orange 3 White/Green Black 4 BLUE Red 5 White/Blue Green 6 Green Yellow 7 White/Brown Brown 8 Brown White
Either your wallmount is not correctly crimmped according to the standards or your cable is not correctly crimmped according to the standards. So its better you crimp the cable and fix the R.J 45 connector in the sequence given herewith.colour coding of the cable:-
1-oranage white
2-orange
3-White green
4-Blue
5- White blue
6-Green
7-White brown
8-Brown
The same Sequence should be at the wallmount and at the R.J 45 connector.
The color is not so important as the cable follow the same standard on both ends.
It has been my misfortune to find non-standard wiring in a facility, so long as they keep the relationship of the pins the same it will work, if the installer did not then you cannot trust any of the work and MUST either redo it all or have it all tested and certified by a cometent network cable installer.
568-B Wiring Pair Wires RJ-45 pins 1-White/Blue White/Blue 5 Blue/White 4 2-Wht./Orange White/Orange 1 Orange White 2 3-White/Green White/Green 3 Green/White 6 4-White/Brown White/Brown 7 Brown/White 8 568-A Wiring 1-White/Blue White/Blue 5 Blue/White 4 2-White/Green White/Green 1 Green/White 2 3-White/Orange White/Orange 3 Orange/White 6 4-White/Brown White/Brown 7 Brown/White 8
RJ-45 Pins are with the spring tab down and read left to right. Do you have an RJ-45 Crimping tool?
I know this is an old thread, but for the sake of helping someone else in the future, I just got off the phone with the Phillips Help Desk and this is the way they told me to wire it up the RJ-11 & RJ-45 combo jack I bought (PH60037):
RJ-45
Jack colors - CAT 5e
Blue - white/orange
Orange - Orange
Black - white/green
Red - Blue
Green - white/blue
Yellow - Green
Brown - white/brown
White - brown
RJ-11
White - white/green
Black - white/orange
Red - blue
Green - blue/white
Yellow - orange
Blue - green
He said it was the standard configuration used by the phone companies for some time.
Phillips Help Desk # for phones/PCs (800-233-8412)
Hope that helps someone else down the road.
Some testers do not test ALL the wires. Some will only test pair 1 and 2. You may want to use a DVM (Digital Voltmeter) set on the ohms function and check continuity on each of the eight wires from RJ-45 to RJ-45 connector or use a cable tester that will check all the wires. If you use a DVM check 1 to 1, 2 to 2 etc. for continuity. Good will read 0 ohms, open will read infinity or OL on some meters. 90% of all cable problems are poorly crimped or broken wires at the RJ-45 connector. It is difficult to be sure which end has the bad connection so you may need to change BOTH RJ-45 connectors. Do one, then check the cable, if it doesn't work, do the other one. It is a 50-50 shot. I prefer and encourage the rewiring color code using the EIA 568A standard. Starting at pin 1 the color code would be orange-white, orange, green-white, blue, blue-white, green, brown-white, brown. You don't have to do it that way, but you must make sure that the same color wire is on the same pin on each connector. If all else fails, you can go to you neighborhood computer shop for help in installing connectors. It takes a lot of practice to do it right. Hope this helps
what's the difference between a cat5 jack and an rj45 jack, i thought the rj45 was the jack for cat5
rj45 is the cable.
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