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Questions tagged [rj-11]

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Home ethernet - daisy chained

I recently bought a house with RJ-45 and RJ-11 on one wall plate, and coax for TV on the other plate in a single box in each bedroom. I opened one up, and it looks like they did not run individual Cat 5 from each one but instead have Daisy chained…
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Ethernet over double RJ11

There are two RJ11 sockets beside the fibre modem, and also two RJ11 sockets in a room upstairs. Can we do ethernet? My hypothesis is that ethernet is possible because RJ45 uses 8 contacts, and 2 RJ11s will have 12 contacts totally (6 each). I would…
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Is it possible to connect an old RJ11 phone line into a Cat 6 wall socket to use for FTTN service?

I just moved into an older house and the NBN guy told me the phone socket's been cut off and plastered over. I checked with the previous owner and he said that the cord is just cut off, sitting under the house. I have a Cat 6 wall socket, and my…
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Should the pins on both sides of an RJ11 cable be in the same order?

Is RJ11 pin order like RJ45 where the order is always the same (e.g. Brown is always on the left, when looking from the bottom), or should they be mirrored - one side with red on the green's right, and the other with the green on the red's…
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How to setup a network between two machines via RJ11 Modular Telephone Cable?

I have two machines with RJ11 ports and I had a RJ11 Modular Telephone Cable lying around.I wondered if it was possible to create a network between the two machines with those RJ11 Modular Telephone Cable (back to back via RJ11 ports) much like a…
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Convert RJ11 to RJ45

I have random RJ11 wires in house which have been cut off as they were used for the master socket and the master socket was in an awkward place. And I was wondering if it was possible to convert both ends of that cable into a RJ45 cable to connect…
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Can I convert RJ11 to RJ45 without modem to use Ethernet?

I have a Tenda 300Mbps N301 wireless router that connects to the ISP with its WAN through a cable that has an RJ45(Ethernet) plug. I would like to use my this router on its WAN, with RJ11(Telephone line-India) plug. Can I use an RJ11 to RJ45…
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Can I plug an ADSL cable to a router with an RJ11 to RJ45 converter?

I have an ADSL router that connects to the ISP with PPPoE on its WAN through a cable that has an RJ11 plug. I would like to use my main router that also has PPPoE on its WAN, but only has RJ45 plugs. Can I use an RJ11 to RJ45 converter to plug the…
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How to convert RJ11 to RCA

We have a Marantz sound system. We also have an Asterisk PBX. Now, I want to have Asterisk play a bell tone for a schedule over the sound system. So I've set up a Cisco SPA112 Port Adapter (basically a Digital-to-Analog convertor) and assigned it…
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Repair RJ45 socket after plugging in RJ11

Background My family member tried to plug a RJ11 into the RJ45 sockets on my modem and router. Now my internet doesn't work as well as it did before. What I know I read that that the RJ11 may have caused this by "pushing pin 1 and pin 8 so far into…
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making phone calls with computer (not voip)

I have an rj11 pci card on a computer I got. Is there a way I can plug it into my home phone jack and make calls? Does anyone know of a free software for Windows or Ubuntu that will work for that? Looking for guidance. Tried googling but getting…
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Can I setup ADSL modem by connecting it to an optic fibre modem that provides a RJ11 output?

Right off the bat I would like to state that I have a very basic understanding of computer networks. The previous internet setup that I had was - RJ11 cable from the ISP box connected to a D-LINK DSL-2520U modem that was connected to a TP-LINK…
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What kind of phone cable is this?

I'm trying to convert my phone line into ethernet cables, but I'm trying to figure out how to do it. I read that you need cat 5+ cables to use for decent speeds. But when I look in the closet box, I see a strange cable that has 6 wires…
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Can I pass an RJ45 WAN router port through the RG11 telephone port

a friend of mine just moved into a new 2 story house. She used to use PLC for her internet connection in her old one story house. Now, she obviously gets a lot lower speeds, not only over ethernet but over wifi as well, as her router is in a…
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How to make use of two RJ11 to transmit the internet

Here is my situation: There are two wall sockets in the house which have a RJ11 entry point. I am assuming that these two are connected since I used to have a telephone connected to each. One of the two RJ11 socket has a cable that goes into a RJ11…
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