Home network setup help (running cat 5)

The frick are you trying to do?

Terminate them as RJ45 and get a switch.

If you insist on punching them down do a little reading about how to do it properly. I.E. Keep the integrity of the twists as close to the connection as possible and don't expose more than 1/2" of bare wires.

For the OP. "A" standard means order in the RJ45 jack is green white/green/orange white/blue/blue white/orange/brown white/brown.

"B" standard reverses the greens and oranges. Orange white/orange/green white/blue/blue white/green/brown white/brown.

I figured it wasn't your work. A switch looks like this. You just need a dumb switch. Hook your input up to any port and your outputs up to any ports and you'll have connection. Switches come in a wide variety or port numbers depending on your needs. It looks like an 8 port switch would do for you although a 16 would allow for future expansion.

This is awesome

Doesn't matter if it was. Ethernet only needs 2 pairs, POTS or VoIP only need 1 leaving him with an extra. From the looks of it he has homeruns to several rooms.

If the switch is placed there he can then use patch cables and terminate the white/orange and white/green pairs down on keystones to send the signal via Ethernet to whatever rooms have the wiring.

Just make sure at those jacks that you punch the wires down exactly the same way as you did at the patch panel. If you are feeding POSTS or VoIP to those jacks just make sure there is a separate keystone and that the wire is punched down on white/blue in the keystone.

Running in this configuration will not cause issues unless the cable is bad. When we install internet for customers who keep their POTS many times the pots will be wired in all the way to the jack where the gateway is and then split there to be sent back out to the nid to connect to the inside wire. I have not run into any issues doing this and it is the company preferred way to do it.

old shice right there

It has nothing to do with being lazy. When I'm told to do my job a certain way that's how it gets done. If you are concerned about voltage it's not really an issue. The wire is twisted for a reason. With all of the POTS customers we have that have lines shared with ADSL or VDSL signals we would notice if there was a problem sharing the lines.

Look at it this way. Your cable pair is in the same main cable with many other customers. Some obviously have POTS on them. The cable in the ground and in the air has less twists than the service drop from the terminal or pedestal to your house. It has even less twists than the cat5 hr from the nid to the gateway. So again if it really was a problem it wouldn't be done.

I'm not one of those people who avoid attics. I actually prefer to go in them since it keeps the wiring out of sight. Do not confuse me with some corner-cutting contractor. My supplies are all paid for by the company so I really don't care how much material it takes to get the job done. I don't see the cost so it's irrelevant to me.

OBTW that looks like shite....Just saying. Google is your friend.