johnbear91
Technical User
- Sep 1, 2007
- 2
I am working in a brand new house that has sat empty since being built 2 years ago, where every room has a outlet panel with a rj11 and an rj45 cat5 connector. The RJ11 is used for the phones in the house, as they all are run downstairs to the phone box. The RJ45's are all patched in all 8 wires to the wall socket, but in the basement they all terminate in a ETCON DD-1 panel. Every cable comes downstairs, has 4 of the wires punched into the panel, and the other 4 are wrapped back around the cable. The panel doesnt appear to be connected to anything else besides the 7 cat5 cables which run to the different rooms.
I have 2 questions. One is, what would this have been used for? The phone and intercom systems use their own wires.
Secondly, if I pull the wires off the dd-1 panel and cap the ends with cat5 ends, then plug them all into a router, could I use this wiring for a computer network?
I understand I might need to adjust the wiring when capping to be compatible with however they punched it in each room at the jack. Or I could just re-punch the jacks in the room to meet one of the standard cat5 configurations.
sorry I wrote so much, I am going back to the house in 2 days and wanted to make sure I at least know what to look for.
I have 2 questions. One is, what would this have been used for? The phone and intercom systems use their own wires.
Secondly, if I pull the wires off the dd-1 panel and cap the ends with cat5 ends, then plug them all into a router, could I use this wiring for a computer network?
I understand I might need to adjust the wiring when capping to be compatible with however they punched it in each room at the jack. Or I could just re-punch the jacks in the room to meet one of the standard cat5 configurations.
sorry I wrote so much, I am going back to the house in 2 days and wanted to make sure I at least know what to look for.