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Re: Running a Cat5 directly into a phone(Newbie)



> my boss wants me to connect our phone using cat5 cable. i have the
> crimper, rj-11 jack and patch cable. does it matter which color wires
> go into the RJ-11? the rj11 looks like it can take 4 wires but i
> thought only 2 were necessary? thanks for the help and sorry for being
> so vague.

The standard method is to wire the first line (red/green) to the white/blue
pair and the second line, if any, to the white/orange pair.

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Regards,
Robert L Bass

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