cat5e phoneline

[imported_itr]

our new house will use cat5e (RJ-45) for phonelines. are there any advantages over RJ-11?

 

[ronzilla]

I'd guess that crosstalk and attenuation are less of an issue with cat5e.

 

[skyking]

Originally posted by: itr
our new house will use cat5e (RJ-45) for phonelines. are there any advantages over RJ-11?

Big advantage!
Bring all the phone runs to the same closet. Do not daisy chain any phone wiring.
Now any phone run can be terminated as a data run if you wish.

 

[syco83]

Originally posted by: itr
our new house will use cat5e (RJ-45) for phonelines. are there any advantages over RJ-11?

I think you might have it wrong i don't know any phone that will use a RJ-45 connector
Most phones use RJ-11 connectors.
Now you might use Cat5 cable with a RJ-11 connector for your phone probably.

i not for sure if there are phones that work with RJ-45 connectors.
I might be wrong i know some people use Cat5 cable for telephone but i never heard of someone using RJ-45 connector for a telephone.

 

[Diaonic]

The cisco 7910 connects via RJ45

 

[nweaver]

In my office, we ran cat5E to RJ45 for phone. The RJ11 will plug in and work just fine, as long as you can figure out termination. We also ran 2 lines over one Cat5 (only uses 2 wires) and terminated it accordingly. We can always pull faceplates and reterminate for a single data jack. If you are doing this I would say get different keystone colors for phone then data. Even then, the sales guys wil never get why the grey connections never work with there laptop....

 

[skyking]

There is one important caveat when plugging an RJ11 into an RJ45. The edges of the rj11 plug may bend and damage the outer wires in the jack. It won't be a problem until you convert that run over to data, and can't get connectivity.
For that reason I will stick to terminating it rj11, and replacing the keystone when converting a run to data.
In the closet, the cat5e is left long, and punched down on a 66 block for phone. If I want to make that a data run, I pull it off the 66, punch it down into the patch panel and test.