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Tomieaye

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#311674 6-Feb-2024 18:26
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Up top, I have no idea what I’m doing, figured if I copied the existing one I would be fine.

I am about to do some fairly extensive earthworks around the house to build some retaining walls before the house gets pushed over and replaced, I’m fairly handy with construction but not so good with cables.

Today I overlanded both the water pipe and phone line as these are in the firing line when excavating, water went great, phone line not so much.

The house is an old batch with a few jack points through it, we’ve had issues before and only had the one working jack point.

I ran cat 6 from the street straight to the jackpoint that we use, which is a Cat5A, black cable to terminal 5 and yellow to terminal 4, so the blue set.

Seems it’s not this simple, because it’s not working. I’ve checked all the connections and they are solid.

Can anyone point out where I went wrong? It would be very appreciated!

Thank you

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Goosey
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  #3191521 6-Feb-2024 18:51
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I think you went wrong not officially getting the network owner to disconnect for you.

 

if you ran a new line from the street to the house, only wire it to the one Jack point.

 

 

 

this sounds a bit messy. What’s the plan for reconnecting once the house is replaced?
What happened to the cable that’s owned by the network company…. Did you chop it at the boundary?


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