My previous apartment had rj11 jacks in the wall, but it was cat5e cable in the walls. Popped off the face plates, reterminated the cords as Ethernet, voilà!
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alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 15 hours agoI’d a coworker who asked the builders to put ethernet jacks in.
They put rj11 phone jacks in instead.
iamthetot@piefed.ca 13 hours ago
yaroto98@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
A lot of builders run ethernet and terminate it with the rj11 port plates. The cable behind it is still ethernet. They just don’t use like half of the wires.
expletivedeleted@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
Um…
You had me until the end. If Cat5e has been ran, then you just need to reterminate both ends with proper keystones.
The annoying thing I find with electrians is that they will use style A, so fucking annoying. Use B. Sun Sky Grass Dirt, then swap the green and white with blue and white. Boom.
yaroto98@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
My last house had all my phone lines connected together in one place. I thought, perfect, I’ll put a gigabit switch here! I removed the ethernet wires, put ethernet heads on them, then went throughout my whole house doing the same at every phone jack. I got an ethernet cable tester. Not a single one worked. I could get the occational partial connections, but no full connection. I made a few ethernet cables just to make sure I wan’t doing it wrong, and they worked fine.
There may be another explaination as to what I saw, but I tried for several days trying to get ethernet throughout the house to no avail.
expletivedeleted@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
Your phone lines were cat 3