How do I crimp a cat5 wire to a RJ11 plug
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On a RJ-11 the middle two connections are one phone line and the outer two are the second. You are going to have to just stick the desired wire pairs in properly. It's not exactly ideal and looks a bit rough.
Using a wall jack with screw or punch down terminals might be better for a permanent setup as it looks a lot cleaner. Then just use typical phone cable from the jack to the device.
I ran cat5(on advice of an expert?) wire through the attic to add telephone jacks to bedrooms upstairs that didn't have jacks. And because I have to splice it into existing old telephone wire (red/green, yellow/black) I need to put a RJ11 plug onto this cat5 wire to plug into the splitter in the attic.
in that case, just choose two color pairs - say green and blue.. cut the other pair short.
put the green pair on pins 2 & 3 (the two in the center) and the blue pair on pins 1 & 4 (outer pins).
each pair should have a solid color wire and one with a strip (ie.. solid blue and then blue w/ white stripe).
as long as you wire both ends the same way, you shouldn't have any problems.
if you're using single-line analog phones, you only need the pair on pins 2 & 3.
I guess that was my question since the 8 wires do not fit into the RJ11 was it alright to just cut the brown pair off since I realize I am only really using the inner 4 (red/green = blue/bluewhite; yellow/black=orange/orange
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by: CMYScottPosted on 2008-03-08 at 12:08:55ID: 21078441
well - you wouln't normally crimp Cat5 wire to an RJ11 - you'd use an RJ-45 plug.
beyond that, are you looking for color standards (ie.. what color to what pin?)
or are you looking for what kind of tool to use, etc?