Re: [Hampshire] [OT] 6P6C Connector

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Author: Peter Brooks
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [OT] 6P6C Connector
On 12/09/2007, James Courtier-Dutton <james.dutton@???> wrote:
> On 12/09/2007, Peter Brooks <peter@???> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > Just hacking open some existing cabling I have around my house, I put
> > Cat6 into the walls years ago and now have need to use some two
> > ununsed wires in the connector to send a phone line.
> > I'm going to create a new cat5 cable with the four data termination
> > still in place and take two for phone, however I'm just confirming
> > what tool to buy for terminating phone line leads for plugging into my
> > fax machine & bt home hub (parents home, hence the terrible ISP but
> > the alure of the home hub had my parents switch from zen)
> >
> > As I understand it the connections are called 6P6C, and the
> > connections on both the home hub and the fax machine are six
> > connectors, if that's correct then great and I'll get a 'Plas FCC68
> > Crimper 6P6C', I've heard it however called RJ11, RJ12 and RJ25.
> >
> > Can someone please just clarify what connection it is actually called?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
>
> Note: If you use Gig Ethernet, it actually uses all the pairs in the
> cable. Not just 2 pairs.

Heh I should of mentioned that, the wire itself is just going to be
used for non-gig.

Cheers

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