Or, don't advertise as "wired for data" and snip the crap when you sell the place. :) Mike Jentges On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Douglas Mosman wrote: > Found an article on the web a few months ago. Even printed it out. > Can't find it > now of course. > > So from memory... > > Basically, there's a structured wiring standard, often referred to as > TIA 568-A. > The confusing thing is that the TIA 568-A standard allows two wiring > patterns, T568A > and T568B. But this is not revision A and revision B. When the > standard was > originally created, they defined what is now called T568B. However, > AT&T had a > different wiring pattern. So they added the AT&T pattern as T568A. > > I went with T568B but recommended T568A because lately I've encountered > some > products where the manufacturer only color coded for T568A. Its a pain > when your > jacks are only coded for T658A and you have to chase down which color > wires have to > be switched and then remember it for each jack. > > The important thing is to pick either T568B or T568A and stick with it. > I made sure > to write down. I have a good memory but its kind of short :-) > > > Tim Wilson wrote: > > > On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Douglas Mosman wrote: > > > > > Use the T568A wiring pattern (vs. T568B). I'm finding some SOHO stuff that is > > > just wire-coded for T568A. > > > > Anybody know the history of the A and B patterns? I've always used B > > (that's what someone told me to use a few years ago), but I don't know > > if it's better. > > > > -Tim > > > > -- > > Tim Wilson | Visit Sibley online: | Check out: > > Henry Sibley HS | http://www.isd197.org | http://www.zope.com > > W. St. Paul, MN | | http://slashdot.org > > wilson at visi.com | <dtml-var pithy_quote> | http://linux.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > http://www.mn-linux.org > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >