I'm wiring my home for phone & internet with a single cat 5 wire. Is this possible

These WEB sites shows how to wire LAN connectors.

CAT 5 WIRING DIAGRAM

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CAT 6 WIRING DIAGRAM

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From what I can remember, I believe it is CAT-5.

The SBV5120 is simply a device that converts your cable internet signal to a RJ45 computer output that connects to your single PC
It also has two RJ11 phone jacks if you use the modem as your home phone as well. It has no wireless function,
For you to have a wireless connection, you will need to purchase a Wifi Router. These can easily be got at any local computer store or a big box retailer like Best Buy, Staples, Computer City etc,
Most come as a 4 or 8 port wifi router, your choice will be the number of wired connections. In your case it looks like one.
Once you have your router, connect the Modem RJ45 to the WAN input on the router and your PC to one of the LAN ports on the router. In its default state, it should connect you to the internet as normal.
The router will have setup instructions which you can use after you connect the modem and PC.

There are several ways to do this, depending on how your network is configured.

Generally, if you have only one router - you connect the network jack of your cable modem or DSL modem to the WAN ("wide area network" or "internet") jack of the router with a CAT 5 network cable or jumper. Each computer's network jack would be connected to one of the router's (4) LAN ("local area network" or "home network") jacks labeled 1, 2, 3, & 4.


In the picture above, the left most jack (WAN) of the router connects to the cable or DSL modem. The "LAN" jacks labeled "1, 2, 3 & 4" connect to each computer's network jack in your home.

The above would change if you are simply adding this router to extend an existing network. You'd likely be using this router as a switch, and leaving the routing duties to the main router. Over simplified, all the CAT 5 network cables would be connected to the 4 LAN jacks. There would be no connection to the router's WAN jack because the output of the first router provides only private IP addresses used in YOUR location. The internet IP address from your ISP is used only at the first router so that your entire home has the single IP address. The WAN jack is for internet addresses only - and the LAN jacks are for local / private addresses in your home only.

Have a look at the LinkSys web site for help configuring your particular model router, or reply with the model and version here.

I hope this helps & good luck. Please rate my reply - thanks!

Is this XP or Vista or 7? You are silent as to the OS, the computer and the router - making it difficult to narrow down the possibilities.

Have you run the wizard to setup a home of small office network?

Have your run your router's software?

Have you indeed connected your computer to your router using 8 conductor Cat 5 ethernet wire?

You are pluged into a RJ-45 outlet in your computer not the RJ-11 modem connection?

RJ-11 with telephone wire will fit into a RJ-45 outlet but it will not work.

Be advised that if you plug a phone wire into your NIC (Network Interfact Card) and the other end into your telephone jack, when the phone rings, that wire will shoot 60 volts into your computer ... there will be the smell of fried components, the sound of gnashing teeth and the sound of a sash register in your future..

I'd go with CAT-6, if your building a new home. While CAT-5 would probably be fine for the near future, CAT-6 has a much higher bandwidth rating, and would be able to pass more data at higher speeds, and would in effect, "future-proof" you home network.

The future is all about high-speed data transmissions, and as more and more things are getting connected to a person's home network (Blu-Ray players, etc.) you're going to be glad that you did...

Everything is getting "smart" these days, there are even internet enabled refrigerators; while not common-place today, who knows what the next 20- to 30-years will bring...

Do it now, or re-do it in the future. The price is a little higher, but thin kabout how much more it will cost you to have the CAT-5 ripped out to be replaced with CAT-6 (or whatever) down the road...

check inside wiring connected to jack for this phone.It is possible old sub-standard category -3 cable was used which would cause inductive cross.If that is the case use cat-5 or even cat-6 cable.The difference is the twists on this cable are tighter ,therefore eliminating most inductive cross.

Yes you can but depending on the length of the cable, you may not be able to have a connection speed of more than 100 mbps because of the 48V phone line running along the Ethernet link. You have to understand that this is completely outside the structured networks guidelines... but it may be quite useful if you have a lack of cables. So, do that only if you really cannot add another wire without having to destroy you walls or ceilings.

Use the blue and brown pairs for the phone and green and orange pairs for the Internet. Be sure to untwist the pairs as close as possible to the connect point. For that kind of setup, I recommend you to use a BIXed wall plate such as the Belden AX100344 (2 ports) or AX100352 (4 ports).

For the Ethernet outlet, the orange and green wires would go exactly where they should: 3,4,5 and 6.

If you are using a 2 ports plate (AX100344), the blue wires will go into 1,2 and the brown will go into 3,4 of the second outlet. This will make your phone outlet carry the 2 phones lines. Some business phones actually support receiving the two phone lines like this.

If you are using a 4 ports plate (AX100352), exactly as with the 2-port plate, the blue wires will go into 1,2 of the second outlet. Then, the brown wires will go into 3,4 of the third outlet. This way, the second and third outlets will have regular phone lines in which you will be able to plug any kind of domestic phone. Unfortunately, the forth port will remain unused.

This being said, I have explained only how to connect the wall side since I don't know anything about where and how the other end is terminated.

I know this is an old thread, but for the sake of helping someone else in the future, I just got off the phone with the Phillips Help Desk and this is the way they told me to wire it up the RJ-11 & RJ-45 combo jack I bought (PH60037):

• RJ-45
• Jack colors - CAT 5e
• Blue - white/orange
• Orange - Orange
• Black - white/green
• Red - Blue
• Green - white/blue
• Yellow - Green
• Brown - white/brown
• White - brown
• 
  
  RJ-11
• White - white/green
• Black - white/orange
• Red - blue
• Green - blue/white
• Yellow - orange
• Blue - green

He said it was the standard configuration used by the phone companies for some time.
Phillips Help Desk # for phones/PCs (800-233-8412)
Hope that helps someone else down the road.

Thomas