[NBLUG/talk] Problems wiring Ethernet ports

[Lincoln Peters]

I've been trying to wire my house so that there is an Ethernet port in every 
room.  I color-coded all five ports, so that I could more easily keep track 
of them.  Each port in five different rooms is a different color, and there 
is a faceplate with 5 ports next to my switch, all of which are 
correspondingly color-coded.  Everything seems to work except for the white 
ports.

Usually, the inside of an Ethernet port contains 8 pins, all in an even row.  
But for some reason, on these ports, pins 3 and 6 seem to be recessed lower 
than the other pins.  None of the other ports look like these (all pins are 
even across the port), nor do any of the Ethernet ports on my computers, so 
I'm guessing I have a bad port here.

I would provide pictures to illustrate exactly what's going on, but I can't 
get my digital camera to focus on such small objects in low light.

Any thoughts as to why these pins might not be even with the others on an 
Ethernet port?  Might they be defective?


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Lincoln Peters		<sampln at sbcglobal.net>

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