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Your CAT5 cable should have four twisted pairs
of
cable coloured as follows:
BROWN, WHITE with BROWN stripes
GREEN, WHITE with GREEN stripes
BLUE, WHITE with BLUE stripes
ORANGE, WHITE with ORANGE stripes
Assuming this is the case then you need to
match
the colours to the slots on the back of the patch panel (or RJ45 socket) as
follows:
hold the socket the correct way up, looking at
the
back of it
you should see two rows of four slots to
receive
the wires
starting with the top row, left hand side, the
colours (of the wires) should be as follows:
BROWN, WHITE with BROWN stripes, GREEN, WHITE
with
GREEN stripes
then the bottom row is as
follows:
WHITE with BLUE stripes, BLUE, WHITE with
ORANGE
stripes, ORANGE
I hope this helps and in anticipation of your
next
question, if you want to wire an RJ45 plug then hold it with the opening
towards
you and the metal pins on top, the colours from left to right are as
follows:
WHITE with ORANGE stripes,
ORANGE
WHITE with GREEN stripes
BLUE
WHITE with BLUE stripes
GREEN
WHITE with BROWN stripes
BROWN
Regards
Graham
P.S. when buying patch pannels or ports I
always
make sure they have the colours stamped on them (I use Krone blocks in
mine) it
makes it much easier !
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 9:13
AM
Subject: [ukha_d] Basic question - how
to
connect cat5
All,
Please excuse this very basic
question.
We are in the process of building our house
and I
have laid plenty of cat5 to each room. Now I want to connect the cables to
a
patch panel in my study at one end and to rj45 sockets in each room at the
other.
My problem is that I am not sure how the
individual strands should be laid out for each connection.
Is there an idiots guide to cabling with cat5
anywhere?
Regards
Alex Durkin
;)
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