unstable
join:2009-06-14
East Falmouth, MA
| General telco / premise wiring question on 6P6C
Hello, I'm obviously new here and I arrived after running various google searches trying to find an answer to this question.
Long story short I'm laying Cat6 (for both data and telephone. I know running Cat6 in general is overkill especially for phoneline, but I had the cable lying around from an old job and so I'm saving some money there. I picked up a couple of wallplates and keystone jacks yesterday.
The "voice quality" jacks that I got were 6P6C....RJ12?
I've searched and searched and I'm having trouble finding where these 6P6C runs / RJ12 jacks are advantageous over a standard Cat3/RJ11 wiring scheme.
I guess as long as I can do this where it conforms to some "industry standard" while at the same time being reverse compatible with regular POTS phone systems than I'll just go lay this line and terminate it...
Just hoping to understand what the purpose of the 6P6C/RJ12 scheme is over the old christmas-tree layout.
thanks,
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jimbopalmer
Tsar of all the Rushers
join:2008-06-02
Greenwood, MS
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1 edit | said by unstable  :I've searched and searched and I'm having trouble finding where these 6P6C runs / RJ12 jacks are advantageous over a standard Cat3/RJ11 wiring scheme. »www.zytrax.com/tech/layer_1/cabl···acks.htm
RJ-12 (or RJ-14) is 6 pairs, allowing 4 phone numbers ("Harold, you have a call on line 3.")
With RJ-11 you can only have 2 phone numbers.
Was that the question?
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unstable
join:2009-06-14
East Falmouth, MA | reply to unstable
So what you're telling me is, 6P6C is basically the same as running a regular pair of telco wires x 3, just neatly wrapped in one insulator?
If so, that's fine...I was just having difficulty finding information on the subject. |
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