making a telephone work from RJ45 Socket
 

Hi All,

Im new here hoping someone can help me out with an issue i have in my house....

I have a single face plate with one cat 6 cable and one cat 3 (alarm cable) and i have a dual rj45 face plate... I want to achieve a phone out of one socket and a network port out of the other, my issue is what and how do i need to do to get the phone working? Ive tried copying the colours i.e my blue (2) to pin2 (orange) of the RJ45 but the phone is dead. (Im using a RJ12 lead to go to my phone from the RJ45!

Any help would be appreciated.

Re: making a telephone work from RJ45 Socket
 

where does the other end of the cable go?

Re: making a telephone work from RJ45 Socket
 

Hi

Thanks for the reply, the other end goes to two different places, the telephone cable goes to a 20 pair phone junction box and the cat 6 goes to a patch panel. they are both next to each other so i could jumper one to the other if necessary. My issue is knowing what pins on the RJ45 plug are needed to work the phone on a RJ12 connection to the base station?

Thanks

Re: making a telephone work from RJ45 Socket
 

so who is supplying the telephone service? bt? virgin? 'cos I think someone will have to switch something on somewhere? and if they have switched it on then its their problem to get your phone working.
Or are you just going to connect up the phone yourself and not bother with the service company, it will be a lot cheaper of course because you won't have to pay for any calls:rolleyes:

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