Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:

In article ,
Isaac Wingfield wrote:

In article vMs_c.249879$Oi.155876@fed1read04,

Can I use an RJ45 connector for the phone line using regular phone cable
that I bought at Home Depot? Any details would be appreciated.

Yes. It was intended to be used that way.


Doing so will damage the jack. The best thing to do is to make an RJ-45 plug
to Rj-11 plug patch cable wired as above.

Geoff.

.... and don't use regular phone wire for ethernet. Buy special (CAT 5)
cable for Ethernet. (Cat 5 cable can be used for plain old telephone if
you wish.)