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Hi Shawn, I have some good and some bad news for you. 1) You connection of jacks following the B standard was a success!!! Now you have all the lines straight (not cross-over) connected to your wall outlets. 2)Big mess in the cabling is somehow bad news :( 3)Another bad news - I do not have a UTP line tester, or else I would pleasantly lend it to you. 4)I have a solution replacing the UTP line tester. In my previous follow-up to your message I explained how to make a loopback connector for an UTP socket. This super-simple device and an ordinary Ohmmeter might be helpful in resolving all you cabling mess. In case you need some help, I could assist you on weekend. Ray Shawn wrote: Round 2.... I originally used the info at this site http://www.alatec.com/info/rj45.html to connect the RJ45 clips. Turns out I used the B standard instead of the A standard, but that should have still worked in the uplink port on my switch. So, my next step was to pull off the wall plates and see how the drops were run. Well, wouldn't ya know, they appear to be wired slightly differently, or I mis-read the guide (looking at it now, I think that particular site makes it easy to get it wrong...)The wall jacks were wired as follows: 1. Green 2. White/Green 3. White/Orange 4. White/Blue 5. Blue 6. Orange 7. Brown 8. White/Brown These are connected to what appear to be pre-wired jacks - the type where you just lay down the wires, and snap the jack shut allowing the jack itself to pierce the insulator and make a connection. So maybe the jack is just wired odd. Regardless, when I wired the basement with the above pattern, I was able to get a connection through my switch - for the wrong room of course. Turns out my room is wired with grey Cat5e, and the other bedrooms are wired with blue Cat5e. So now I have a bundle of 7 grey cables in the basement, and no clue which one corresponds to my room. To make matters worse, I suspect at least half those cables are phone lines, not data lines. Of course, none are labeled. Anyone know how I can get my hands on a tone generator and probe for a couple hours? (sheez... all this just so I can move a couple of servers out of my room and into the basement, so I can have some quiet at night... <grins>) Shawn |
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