On Tue, 13 May 2003, Tim Wilson wrote: > Does anyone know which wires go where if I want to crimp an RJ45 connector > onto a Cat3 I don't remember the exact colors, but IIRC Cat3 is 2 pair cabling with orange, orange/white, blue, and blue/white conductors. It uses USOC, which basically means: 12344321 |||||||| On an RJ45 connector. If you have orange, orange/white, blue, and blue/white, you wire orange/white to pin 3, blue/white to pin 4, blue to pin 5, and orange to pin 6. Btw, I applaud you for using RJ45 plugs for this. Most people try to use Rj11, and while it works, it will most likely bend pins 1 and 8 of your patch panel into oblivion. This should work for you, I don't think I swapped tip and ring. Btw, I recommend buying a phone line tester. I found a little unit for $5 that has an RJ11 on one end and an LED on the other. It quickly tells you good, bad, or reverse wiring. -Brian _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list