[SpamCop-Geeks] Re: Verizon DSL

[eddie]

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 12:57:55 -0700, Anonymous scratched out the following:

> "eddie" <eddie [at] eddie.web> wrote in message
> news:pan.2005.04.19.18.05.23.425000 at eddie.web...
>> OK, I have to make a faux RJ11 to RJ45 adapter in order to get the
>> Verizon
>> modem to work. My "professional" DSL install uses RJ45; Verizon uses
>> RJ11,
>> which is what most naive user would have.
> 
> Easiest way to do that is to use Leviton RJ11 and RJ45 jacks. Use a short
> length of CAT5 and punch that down in the RJ45 jack. Then do the same for
> the RJ11 jack on the other end, wrapping the Brown - Brown/White wires
> around the CAT5 cable or simply snipping them (they're not used). Since
> the Leviton jacks are color coded, you can't really mess it up.
> 
> If your installer did it right, your DSL signal will come in on the
> Blue-Blue/White pair of the CAT5 used to carry phone. So, you just plug
> the RJ45 jack from the phone line coming into the house into your RJ45 to
> RJ11 adapter, plug a regular phone line (or the cable provided by your DSL
> modem manufacturer) into the RJ11 jack, plug the other end into the DSL
> modem, and you're good to go.

Thanks for the info. That's pretty much what I did, only I simply cut a
CAT5 cable with an RJ45 on one end and cut a telephone cable with an RJ11
and soldered the blue and blue-white wires on the CAT5 to the center two
wires on the RJ11 which are red and green.
The only problem I forsee is that Verizon expects me to put their filters
on my phones and connect their modem to a non-filtered line whereas I have
this box outside the house which already does that, AFAIK. The phone line
comes in from the street and the box has two lines coming out of it: one
for my phones which goes into the basement and the other which goes into
my den with the RJ45 connection. I do not get a dialtone on the RJ45 (I
tried that today) so I know that it's filtered. The Verizon modem came
late this afternoon and I tried hooking it up but the speakeasy.net system
is different and nothing interesting happened. I won't really know until
next Monday when Verizon says the switchover should be complete.
 

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