On 10/06/2015 22:15, Adam Funk wrote:
On 2015-06-10, John Rumm wrote:

On 10/06/2015 13:56, Adam Funk wrote:
There's a phone socket on the wall just outside the "networking
cupboard" at home (well, built-in wardrobe with the router & modem on
a shelf). I'd like to change it to a double --- phone beside RJ45 on
one faceplate & connect the RJ45 to the router inside. Instead of
wiring a socket on the wall to a socket inside the cupboard, then
connecting a patch cable to the router, is there any reason not to
just put an RJ45 plug on one end of a piece of cable & the RJ45 socket
on the other end?

You can, although it makes it a little less flexible in use, and you
also need to take care that you don't move the connections about too
much since the solid core wiring cable does not last as well with
repeated flexing as the stranded patch lead stuff.

You can in theory get special RJ45s designed for solid core, but I have
never had any problem with "normal" ones on solid core cable in
applications were its mostly going to be plugged in and left.

That's an interesting point ... as it happens, I've been using the
same cable for some socket-to-socket connections & 1 patch cable where
I needed a strange length.


If so, what is the colour-coding to use?

Stick to TIA 568B in most cases (unless your sockets are only colour
coded for A). Most are marked with both colours, although B only ones
are becoming more common.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIA/EIA-568#Wiring

B is what I've been using. Thanks (to others as well) for the advice
--- I'll just put a socket on both sides of the wall (1 inside, 1
outside the wardrobe/network-cabinet) & connect them the usual way.


Or use a small patch panel - then you always have expansion room.

--
Cheers,

John.

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