color arragement for modular plug

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Question: On one side I have a RJ45 female connector, on the other side I have a RJ45 male end. My female is wired to the 'B' style. My probelm is rather than a typical patch panel or something I got a router that I had to make the male ends on my CAT 5. I did my male plugs like this; with the clip side down from left to right I went: blue/wh, blue - orange/wh, orange - green/wh - green - brown/wh brown.
Is this color arrangement right?
 
nyerinfl said:
Question: On one side I have a RJ45 female connector, on the other side I have a RJ45 male end. My female is wired to the 'B' style. My probelm is rather than a typical patch panel or something I got a router that I had to make the male ends on my CAT 5. I did my male plugs like this; with the clip side down from left to right I went: blue/wh, blue - orange/wh, orange - green/wh - green - brown/wh brown.
Is this color arrangement right?
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no, from hole down, clip to the back, gold pins facing you, its wh/or- or- wh/gn - bl - wh/bl - gn - wh/bn - bn
 
nyerinfl said:
Question: On one side I have a RJ45 female connector, on the other side I have a RJ45 male end. My female is wired to the 'B' style. My probelm is rather than a typical patch panel or something I got a router that I had to make the male ends on my CAT 5. I did my male plugs like this; with the clip side down from left to right I went: blue/wh, blue - orange/wh, orange - green/wh - green - brown/wh brown.
Is this color arrangement right?
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There may be different configurations on the pinout of the cable the pinout is different in a patch cable, Console cable, Crossover cable, Rollover cable. See the application with your router info. Why didnt you just use a patch panel/switch?
 
quogueelectric said:
There may be different configurations on the pinout of the cable the pinout is different in a patch cable, Console cable, Crossover cable, Rollover cable. See the application with your router info. Why didnt you just use a patch panel/switch?
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he was asking about a network cable, so that leaves out console cable or rollover cable. Since he needs a straight through cable to connect the router to the Rj45 jack on the other end of the cable, that rules out crossover, and he said his jack is wired 'B' so that would be the color combination I gave him.

As far as a crossover cable, you would make one end wired 568-A and the other end wired 568-B. This is only needed to connect two PCs directly together.
 
nyerinfl said:
Where does that arrangement come from?
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Modular plugs for phones. Blue pair in the middle is line 1 (pins 4&5 on RJ-45), flanking them is the orange pair for line 2 (pins 3&6). Then along came the green pair on pins 1&2, and the brown pair on 7&8.

The T-568a standard follows that layout, while the T-568b standard swaps the orange and green pair locations. It really doesn't matter which standard you use as long as it's consistent throughout the installation.
 
LarryFine said:
Modular plugs for phones. Blue pair in the middle is line 1 (pins 4&5 on RJ-45), flanking them is the orange pair for line 2 (pins 3&6). Then along came the green pair on pins 1&2, and the brown pair on 7&8.

The T-568a standard follows that layout, while the T-568b standard swaps the orange and green pair locations. It really doesn't matter which standard you use as long as it's consistent throughout the installation.
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Also need to be sure to follow correct polarity.
 
egnlsn said:
Also need to be sure to follow correct polarity.
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Yes. You'll note that the wires are always striped/solid/striped/solid, etc. across the plug with either standard.
 
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