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mattosaur4

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#201835 5-Sep-2016 23:11
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My house was all wired up when it was built and has a 110 Networking Block in the Garage and Cat5e cabling to numerous places in the house.  Dedicated RJ45 faceplates seem to have all 4 wires hooked up, whereas ones with a rj45 and phone have 2 pairs on the rj45 and 1 pair on the phone.


I've managed to track down where 4 solo RJ45 outlets terminate to on the 110 block just using a switch and laptop and watching link lights.


I've now found 2 near enough to each other that I could run a 5-6metre cable around the door frame from to it. I'd just need to move the modem.


I was wondering what I'm looking for on the 110 Block in regards to finding where the VDSL connection comes in? So I can move it.  I don't have a tone tester or anything.  Where the internet is currently wired to is a dual faceplate & behind it is:



  • Blue & Blue/White pair wired to one port - That goes to the DSL port on the Modem via the cable



  • Orange & Orange/White pair wired to the leftover Phone jack


This is part of my 110 Block and I wondered if the Chorus tech marked the outlet with that white tape but then the orange & orange/white pair aren't wired to anything...


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Any tips / suggestions on locating the VDSL connection so I can change where the Modem gets plugged into?


I read something about "creating a line bus" in the Siemons User Guide for the 110 block, is the blue & blue/white long repeating S wiring config possibly all OK to wire it to?


Cheers,


Matt


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mattosaur4

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  #1627821 12-Sep-2016 12:11
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Thanks All for the info and replies.

 

Got it sorted over the weekend, pretty ugly looking cabinet but working...  Found and checked the ETP and it has a master filter installed and was the green pair so did some more hunting and concluded I had it wrong.  The one I'd detected was just the wall outlet, the one next to it was the xDSL.

 

Cut up some wire from a cable and wired the green pair to a Cat5e jack and then plugged that to the modem and viola DSL / Internet back on. xDSL stats from the modem virtually the same afterwards as well. (Sync rate is 60111 Up and 10000 down, or so)

 

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Decided to try out the Modem in the Garage for now and see how wifi is around the house, seems OK initially.  I ended up using the old Internet Outlet in the kitchen to run the phone.  Wired the wall outlet ones I'd found earlier to an empty 110 block and then cut up a RJ11 cable and punched that down onto it and connected to the Modem.  Basically made a 20m phone extension cable using the house wiring.  Seems to work fine.

 

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Will get out the Label Maker then all done for now...

 

Matt


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