Patch Panel to ADSL Modem

[baxr6]

Hi,

Just a quick question, I've just had a small office built and the electricians have installed a network box with a patch panel, I have 3 telephone lines that come in so I can take more calls but they seem to use cat5 cable for the telephone line (E.g. the 3 lines are ports 1 - 3 in the patch panel).Im use to the old rj-11 connectors.Only one of the lines is able to make calls (this is the adsl line) the other 2 lines are receive only.How do I connect port 1 of the patch panel to the rj-11 connector on the back of the ADSL modem/router???

 

[calvinj]

Plug it in?

 

[Ur_Mom]

You should be able to plug in an RJ11 into the CAT5 port in the patch panel.

 

[baxr6]

there different sizes???

 

[baxr6]

the cat5 is slightly bigger anyway....does this matter

 

[jeffmoss26]

A data plug is 8 position, 8 pin; a phone plug is 6 position, 6 pin. Yes, a phone plug will fit into a data jack, however you risk damaging pins 1 and 8 of the data jack. What I do in these cases is cut off one of the phone plug ends and crimp on an 8 pin plug, and plug that into the patch panel.

 

[baxr6]

ok thanks much appreciated

 

[timreichhart]

you can use cat5 as telephone line also all you have to do is have one end as 8p8c and other end as 6p4c. But if you do use cat5 make sure you remember what wires you use when you punch it down to on telephone side of it.

http://www.ezlan.net/cat4tel.html