CAT5 faceplate

NathanE · 28 Jun 2006 at 17:30

I'm refurbishing a few rooms in the house and bought some CAT5 faceplates. But unlike my other faceplates which had the actual colours labelled on the push-down block, these new ones just have numbers :confused:

Does anyone know which numbers correspond to which colour wire?

Cheers

Burbleflop · 28 Jun 2006 at 17:33

1 - Orange & White
2 - Orange
3 - Green & White
4 - Blue
5 - Blue & White
6 - Green
7 - Brown & White
8 - Brown

NathanE · 28 Jun 2006 at 17:35

Awesome, thanks!

Trigger · 28 Jun 2006 at 17:43

Burbleflop said:
1 - Orange & White
2 - Orange
3 - Green & White
4 - Blue
5 - Blue & White
6 - Green
7 - Brown & White
8 - Brown

Depends whether he is wiring to 568A or 568B

csmager · 28 Jun 2006 at 20:25

Trigger said:
Depends whether he is wiring to 568A or 568B

B's pretty much standard though. You'd only usually wire one end 'A' if you were trying to crossover.

Trigger · 28 Jun 2006 at 20:37

csmager said:
B's pretty much standard though. You'd only usually wire one end 'A' if you were trying to crossover.

Wouldn't be so sure on that- was expecting most of it to be 'B' at work today but found out some of it was 'A' and some of the sockets were just patched into and hole avaliable

That's what you get when you let electricians put in data networking.

I was always led to believe that the 568A standard was brought in after the 'B' standard? :confused:

csmager · 28 Jun 2006 at 20:40

Trigger said:
Wouldn't be so sure on that- was expecting most of it to be 'B' at work today but found out some of it was 'A' and some of the sockets were just patched into and hole avaliable That's what you get when you let electricians put in data networking.

We had an electrician run some cable for us at home yesterday. He made a damn good job of the cable run, and very nicely just left the cable untouched at either end for me to do.

I was always led to believe that the 568A standard was brought in after the 'B' standard?

Wiki disagrees, but I suppose it's not forced to be correct:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIA-568B

Trigger · 28 Jun 2006 at 22:36

csmager said:
Wiki disagrees, but I suppose it's not forced to be correct:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIA-568B

Oh thanks, never knew that

Then again, thinking about it, it would be a bit daft to bring out B then A afterwards

Oops. All my cabling is done to 568B anyway though because I always got the order wrong on A and could only remember 568B

csmager · 28 Jun 2006 at 22:38

Trigger said:
Oh thanks, never knew that Then again, thinking about it, it would be a bit daft to bring out B then A afterwards Oops. All my cabling is done to 568B anyway though because I always got the order wrong on A and could only remember 568B

They're exactly the same anyway. The only difference is the colours are different - green is swapped with orange. Electrically, there's no difference at all.

Trigger · 28 Jun 2006 at 23:05

csmager said:
They're exactly the same anyway. The only difference is the colours are different - green is swapped with orange. Electrically, there's no difference at all.

Yeah, problem is that I normally swap the wrong pairs though- I think it's supposed to be #2 and #3 :cool: