Help with the aftermath of wiring my new house

[ghaynes]

Might have a problem and wanted to see if there is a solution.

I worked with my builder and he allowed me to run all my cable throughtout the house and since the builder already gives me 4 TV, 4 Phone from their wiring contractor I told them to do 1 of each in the 4 bedrooms upstairs and I'll take care of wiring the first floor. They use Cat5e so I can use the port for either voice or data.

Now the issue that caused this due to schedules I had to get in there before their wiring guy and get my floor wired first and then their LV guy came in finished the 2nd floor. Now after all the wire has been run and the drywall and paint are up and I went back to put on the plates and I was looking over the guys work and realized that he wired the 2nd floor using 568A and I used 568B. I should of known that he was going to do that.

I am not too worried about the network part since I plan on using my router and switch to handle the computers but I wanted to use his phone/network module to handle my phone. Will I be able to plug in my RJ45 cable into he's module and be able to use phone.

The builder provides a distribution panel and a 8 RJ / 8 TV module by FutureSmart. Pictures of the unit below. How can I use his module and get voice? Will I have a problem with the 2 different wiring schemes?

Pic of what the builder is giving me

My wiring with the builders wiring

 

[ScottMac]

On the stuff you did, just swap the orange and green pair (orange-white, orange = orange pair, green-white, green = green pair).

I'm assuming the LV guy properly terminated his stuff.

Good Luck

Scott

 

[imported_Paladin]

Found the FutureSmart site, from the pix it looks like you have the Honeywell MDC8T8RJ combo distribution module. Could not find what is inside that module. Just guessing from the picture you have a single blue cat-5 and a single white coax coming in from the outside world to the box (right side.) On the left it looks to be the power cord to the outlet in the bottom of the box. The middle has the builder's blue cat-5 and white coax from the second floor and your blue cat-5 and black coax from the first floor. Some grey in there also? About four locations on the second floor and eight on the first. None of which is tagged as to what room location it goes to.

The coax side looks to be a simple one in eight out passive splitter.

The wire side is totally unknown. It says one in eight out. It might be just everything wired in parallel or it might be something else. Without knowing it is impossible to guess as to how to connect anything.

That box is big enough to hold your DSL or Cable splitter/modem/router/hub. The wiring can handle voice or data (or both if you get creative.) Your wiring is no problem, and the 568A/B doesn't matter for a single line voice as pair one is the same in both. Two-line telephone will require the second line to be on pair two of the 568A and pair three of the 568B. Three-line telephone requires splitting the remaining two pairs. All of which can be handled in your distribution box, along with LAN connections.

How can I use his module and get voice?

You can use this module for both LAN and voice. How cannot be answered w/o knowing more about the unit. And likely having to add components.

Will I have a problem with the 2 different wiring schemes?

Absolutely not.