Did you get mixed up with a Question Patch panel?
Did you get mixed up with a Question Patch panel?
The easiest way to punch holes in your phone block is just to pull it out and use those extra holes at the back labeled for specific rooms. I can see the wire jacket printed there too. Those wires look like CAT5. You can check by looking at the label on the jacket itself. If each run goes straight to its own room (punched into the card), this setup could easily work for your internet connection.
It's been ages now, almost twenty years. That connector still shows up in my shop, but it does serve two main jobs: a phone line and an ethernet connection. There are even adapters made to fit both types. But honestly? I just can't remember the name of that other connector ever, so when I draw up blank, I don't know what it is called. Amazon sells similar items though... unless you have a special punch tool to strip those wires right out and take normal patch cables, cut one end off and plug them in, it will still work fine even if you don't strip the pairs too long. It can handle full gigabit speeds. I'll link up that specific item here: https://www.amazon.com/Port-Network-Hub-...B000EHW88Q Just saying this isn't a recommendation, but similar options are still out there. Here is just how to do the work with different types of cables, including Cat 5 VDV Works Virtual Hands-On Training - UTP Termination edit2: here it actually is, a ready-made patch cable for the connection https://www.amazon.com/Allen-Tel-Product.../B005M1YWV I believe that one of those is a 110 block
In this case, wouldn't the internet cables just need to be limited to "10"? I know you can run internet short with only two cables, but I've never heard of anyone using only four. Since they are running blue and orange lines, that means two phone lines. Honestly, after all my years in this business, I have never personally seen a punchdown block like this before.
yeah, the picture shows blue and orange wires connecting to every port. This means if your house has a landline phone, it's linked to all of them too. (The blue pair wasn't actually used for ethernet even at 10 speeds; they mostly use orange and green. Blue and brown are needed only if you go over 100 megabits per second. I'm not exactly sure about how the wall jacks connect, so it could be different.) At low speeds (under gigabit and usually in gigabit too), it doesn't really matter which pair goes where as long as they do their job. Basically, you could swap any two color pairs and the connection would still work. You might see a network tester that costs thousands of dollars, but it's unlikely to show something wrong just from this swap. For regular internet usage, cutting that top back-and-forth wire is basically what you'd need to do.
It's been better than ten years since I was in the business messing with phones and internet combos. The company I worked for cared a lot about using separate cables for phones and internet, plus special "RG" wire. Back then, it used to be common to run one long phone cable all through the house or run an internet homerun and then a short "rabbit" run from that. Instead, we ran everything as home runs back to D-Mark or block (etc.) and life became much easier. Thanks for sharing that memory tip.