What am I looking at here? This is Cat6e cabling.
Posted May 31, 2020, 4:40 PM UTC
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That’s a POTS line.
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What’s a POTS? I was expecting this to be a networking jack. But 3 of the splices are not even hooked up. (New house just moved in so I’m starting to look into a few things)
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Plain Old Telephone System
It’s wired for a phone line.
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Dam... I kinda of figured that might be the case. Went to plug in a RJ45 tip and it was too big. Looks like I’ll be rewiring my whole house 😆 Thanks for the info!
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If it's all cat6, you just got wired internet in every room! Reterminate and add a router
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It may not be necessary to do a full rewire. If it's cat6e, just install an rj45 jack, find the other end, and tie it to your switch.
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Pots. Blue pair is used for phone specifically.
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Blue, orange, green, brown, slate, white, red, black,yellow, violet.
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Cat6 is readily available so that’s what they used for the phone lines. I haven’t seen actual phone line in years. Like one post said replace the jacks with RJ45 hardware then connect to a network switch. The you don’t have to run any new wire to put Ethernet in each room.
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This is what happens when idiot electricians think they're also cable tv and telco guys.
Let me give you some advice: You electricians know about as much as cable tv and phone as those guys do about power. Stick to what YOU know.
But honestly, it is a phone cable. Blue/BW, are your first pair, Orange/OW are your second pair, etc... Black and yellow are typically used to power the jack.
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Wall plug for data
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Yeah I know that but I’ve never seen it hooked up like this. Orange, brown and green pairs are all not hooked up.
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It’s for phone, remember, electricity doesn’t care what color the wires are
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Have we really reached the point where people are old enough to understand Cat6A and recognize 8p8c connectors as Ethernet, but young enough to not recognize a POTS phone jack?
Apparently we've reached the point where CAT6 is so common and cheap that builders pull it for pots lines. What a bonus.
POTS jacks seem to come up on here pretty often, yeah, I know. But yes, the actual cable should work for network too, just with new jacks.