Originally Posted by
Hagbard Celine
I think if I'm hooking cat-5 up to modular jacks, I'll only use two pairs of the four pairs of wires. I'll use the blue and orange pairs to hook to the four green, red, black and yellow connections on the modular phone jacks.
I set-up to daisy-chain my four jacks instead of opting for the homerun unit. I'll just connect my jacks directly to the Network Interface Device via the cat-5.
I'll put the call into the phone co. and have them bring me a spiffy new NID and hook me up with da Internets!
I wasn't planning to solder anything. I was just going to strip the wires and connect them to their respective screws on the phone jacks. I haven't spent much on "equipment" either. I'm out about $60 for this whole thing. All I'm interested in is wiring the house for phones and Internet. I don't really care about achieving astronomical speeds or anything with a complicated network. DSL will be just fine for me as long as it's relatively fast and I get decent download/video speeds.
I can get decent speeds out of the two-pair wire connections I've described right? As I understand it, I don't need fancy ethernet ports with all eight cat-5 wires connected for basic dsl service. Is that correct?