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Need help figuring out if my home's CAT5 wiring was done incorrectly!

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Sounds like a good plan. What will chafe you even more is a properly installed 568B(A) wire job works fine as a phone run also. The problem tends to be that the installers at the residential level seem to be... bottom of the bucket.
 
You should put up some pics btw. Will help immensely with any diagnosing and wild-ass speculating we can offer here 😉
 
Yeah, pics would have helped, but I started the thread while at work...

In any case, the Roku is fine as a tester. Silly, but fine.

As of now I've migrated about 7 new wires (maybe 5-6 to go) and have 3 working data jacks (of 5), so I'm hoping when I'm finished I get them all. The re-punching of wires and running around the house testing is good exercise, but tedious...
 
ahdaniels76 said:
Yeah, pics would have helped, but I started the thread while at work...

In any case, the Roku is fine as a tester. Silly, but fine.

As of now I've migrated about 7 new wires (maybe 5-6 to go) and have 3 working data jacks (of 5), so I'm hoping when I'm finished I get them all. The re-punching of wires and running around the house testing is good exercise, but tedious...
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Grats! You are now a low voltage installer! You comment is why I am not that interested in doing it full time.
 
As a former Low Voltage installer, I can confirm that many LV tech are idiots and or massively lazy. There are some great ones, but a lot of them know no one will ever check what they did until someone moves into a new construction.

Good luck getting it straightened out. A tone generator/sniffer will be a huge help. Get a fluke from Home Depot or similar, one of the models that makes more than one tone and will change when you complete a circuit with the cable you are tracing.

I have this one and love it.

http://www.homedepot.com/buy/fluke-networks-pro-3000-tone-and-probe-kit-297584.html
 
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