I am installing in an old house, no cat 5 here, just the old wire with four wires, cat 3 I think, will the punch down connectors work?
1621091
yes it will work as a telecom wire with only 4 conductors (w/rj11 connectors) not like a cat-5 with 8 conductors (w/rj45 connectors) just use the following colors on telecom wire-- green (white/blue), red (blue/white), yellow (white/green), black (green/white)
1621092
Yes, but your colors of the wire will not match the colors of the punch down. That is not a real problem as long as you keep all your colors matching. You probably have a cable with yellow-black-red-green in it instead of blue/bluewhite-orange/orangewhite-brown/brownwhite and so on. Just match the red to the blue and the green to the bluewhite, the black to the orangewhite and the yellow to the orange. Hope this helps!
1621093
The "old" wire (red, green, black, yellow) will not punch down and is not cat3. Cat3 is typically 4 twisted pair (8 coductors) and is basically cat5 without the same mhz raiting as cat5. Cat3, which I don't believe you have is rated for voice/fax use only. If you want to use this punch down block (or any 110 or 66 block) you have to splice some newer cat3 or cat5 tails on your existing 2pr and then punch down on block. This is what I had to do in my house. BTW, the 550 block is a great product!
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yes you have to put your own ends on and use the straight through design connections the premade cables wont work. Put your own ends on i used the EX-RJ45 from amazon they allow you to push the wire out the end so you can double check position of color code wire . The main difference between 5 and 6 is wire size i have 8 cat5s it carries both power and sound but since i didn't use the sound on some it gave me an extra video connection I used the 2.5 power adapters to make a power tee connection this saved me from running extra cat5
1294092
Yes this will work for cat5e or any other ethernet cable. You will need platinum's crimping tool made for the EZ connectors that trim the edges.
1755405
I hit the enter button too fast, I have a 75 foot run of hard wired feed. I used the RJ45 to hook a fifty fo and a twenty five ft together to run this old computer in the cellar, works OK. However keep in mind that if you use a RJ45 you may not get the full Mhz that the Cat 7 cable can provide and it will lower your speed.CAT-5 is rated to 100 Mhz CAT-5e is rated to 350 MhzCAT-6 and CAT6e is rated to 550 Mhz or 1000 Mhz depending on your source CAT-7 is rated to 700 Mhz or 1000 Mhz
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Yes, it supports all 8 wires. The four towers you see pictured support four wires each. So one cat5 cable enters one end of the box and runs to the two towers on that end with four wires on each tower. Then the other cat5 cable enters the other end of the box and runs to the two towers on that end with four wires to each tower. All punch-downs are color-coded to the wires' colors as well.
1699406
All of the ports on this switch are treated the same so it doesn't matter which port comes from your router or which port goes to your other devices, like workstations, etc. Does that answer your question or did you mean which type of wire: Cat 5 or Cat 6?
1849742
The connection type is an RJ45 connector, Cat5, Cat 53, Cat6 all use RJ45 Connectors, the cable is your choice depending on your environment if you decide to run your own cable, Google the difference (honestly cat5 which is cheaper will be fine) unless you are running a new network throughout the house and have cat6 I wouldn't bother going with cat6.
844112
I think you mean cat 5 cable..if so you would need to buy rca twist conn. plus power conn. and splice them in ..I think by the time you do all that it would be much simpler and just as cheap to buy the pre made cables on amazon...100' with the connectors on both sides are about 14.00...u can also buy 25', 60' & 150' ...reasonably priced ..........also u can find the connectors for the cat 5 on amazon too...
1730366
The Majic Jack uses a standard Ethernet cable, so yes, the Belkin Cat5 will work as well. Note that Majic Jack ships with an Ethernet cable in the box, so you do not need to buy an additional cable unless the old one is missing or broken.
1331501
You should be able to plug it into any CAT5 plug. It shouldn't matter since it is on your LAN.
1201937
Should work fine. The only difference is cat5e will work up to 1 gigabit system and cat6 will work up to 10 gigabit system. They both connect the same way.
1007506
You can use either. I use cat 5 with video baluns and power adapter (pig tails) wired to the cat 5.
1492710
Not directly. You will need cat 5 baluns on each end for video and a power adapter on each end and it will work.
1092165
I used nearly a whole spool of this wire to rewire a 1950's home. Most was pulled through conduit. It works fine. I get digital signal in all locations (5) using amplifers (2) good quality connectors to terminate & 6db taps. The wire could have better braided shielding but, seems to work fine. Map your project. Consider your loss from taps & wire length used. Consider using good quality amplifiers where needed. Good Luck.
1892575
Check out the terminals. If they are the same as the old ones it should work fine.
76383
It will confirm correct wiring on cat5 and cat6 however the one I got only tested 2 wires then broke internally bumping around in by tool bag. It will do quite a distance beyond 100ft.
1719264
The Ethernet is a punchdown connection - - that means you strip off Cat 5e "outer" shielding cable, making sure to have less than 1/2" of UNTWISTED wire exposed to keep within Cat 5e specs - - use the supplied plastic punch down tool to secure all 8 wire connects -- the wire color coding is for 568A, but you can wire for 568B as long as BOTH ends are A or B coded. If you don't know what I'm writing, then this is not for you.