Hi group,
I have a home run system with all OpenHouse equipment - 8-way phone hub, Linksys router and coax-video distribution center. The system has been up and working for a year, but I've got a handful of wires that I have not terminated and I'm trying to clean them all up and get this done once and for all.
One wire, in particular, has me puzzled. It's a cat5 wire and I have installed and crimped 2 adapters, but whenever I plug it in to my H619 phone hub, all lines in the house go dead. When this new cable is plugged in, I look at my cordless phone and it says "extension in use" and when I unplug this new cable, the dialtone will come back.
I removed the plug and re-crimped another one, just incase I made a mistake, and the same thing is happening.
Any ideas what I am doing wrong or what the problem might be? If it makes a difference, I wire all of the cat5 wires in the house the same, so I can later decide to switch between the phone hub and Linksys router, depending on what I want the outlet at the end to be. This connection will most likely be a ethernet connetion, but I usually use the phone hub to test I have the right end of the wire, as it's easier to walk around with a phone as a tester than a computer.
Thanks!
Aaron
I have a home run system with all OpenHouse equipment - 8-way phone hub, Linksys router and coax-video distribution center. The system has been up and working for a year, but I've got a handful of wires that I have not terminated and I'm trying to clean them all up and get this done once and for all.
One wire, in particular, has me puzzled. It's a cat5 wire and I have installed and crimped 2 adapters, but whenever I plug it in to my H619 phone hub, all lines in the house go dead. When this new cable is plugged in, I look at my cordless phone and it says "extension in use" and when I unplug this new cable, the dialtone will come back.
I removed the plug and re-crimped another one, just incase I made a mistake, and the same thing is happening.
Any ideas what I am doing wrong or what the problem might be? If it makes a difference, I wire all of the cat5 wires in the house the same, so I can later decide to switch between the phone hub and Linksys router, depending on what I want the outlet at the end to be. This connection will most likely be a ethernet connetion, but I usually use the phone hub to test I have the right end of the wire, as it's easier to walk around with a phone as a tester than a computer.
Thanks!
Aaron
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