Hi all,

 

This is my first post here but I have been using this site
for quite some time and learnt a lot from the browsing the forums. So first-up,
thanks J

 

I have a question about my existing cat5 wiring at home.
When we bought the house there was a pabx phone system which I am keen to
uninstall. I had a rush of blood to the head & decided to do this myself.
The wiring is in a star configuration with a central krone block, and the cat5
is terminated with rj45 ports.

 

My plan is to replace the krone with an rj45 patch panel and
thereafter patch either phone or data as required (my router is mounted on the
same wall as the krone block).

 

I researched wiring configurations, but it would seem our
terminations are some sort of variation on the t586b standard. The port has a
clear diagram for both 568a & 568b wiring however as you can hopefully see
from the photo, the solid orange wire is at position 1, correlating with the
colour coding on the port (labeled as T568B although the photo is a bit
obscured)

 

As far as I can tellis is different from the guidelines I
found on the interwebs, all of which have white/orange stripe at pin 1 and
orange at pin 2 for t568b.

 

Is there any reason for this, and why would our ports all be
labeled apparently incorrectly?

 

Thanks again.