Bob Vaughan wrote:

In article ,
Eric wrote:

RJ-45 is for network (ie ethernet), RJ-11 is for telephones. You are not
going to hook your telephone to the network. You are going to hook your
voip phone adapter or voip router to the network ( via an RJ-45 connector
) and then hook your telephone to the voip adapters' RJ-11 telephone port.


Incorrect.

RJ-45 is for a dedicated single pair data circuit, and has nothing to do
with ethernet.

The connectors themselves do not have any RJ designations until they are
wired for a specific telephone application, as originally defined in
47 CFR 68.502.

The only exceptions might be jacks for alarm applications complying with
RJ-31X or RJ-38X, which have shorting bars, making them difficult to use
for other applications.

Ethernet and Token Ring do not have any RJ designation.




How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? , in the day to day
residential world this is the way its done RJ-11 for telephone and RJ-45
for ethernet.
Eric