This section contains information on cabling, pin-outs and
other wiring issues.
| FAQ |
Who sets the standards for various wiring specs, Cat 2, 4 5 and 5e and all that jazz. RS232 and V.24, V.35 and DB25. And lots of other obscure stuff. |
| LAN Wiring |
Pin-outs (crossed, straight), 10BaseT, 100BaseT, color coding. RJ45 - which way is UP!. |
| LAN & Phones |
You can run LAN and Telephones on CAT 5(e) cables - BUT it will be non-standard and you may have problems in the future. |
| Troubleshoot |
So its not working. You've just spent hours building your LAN set-up and nothing works. Nada. These notes may help. |
| Jacks 'n Stuff |
Primer on Jacks, Modular connectors and all that
jazz. |
| RS232/RS530 |
Pin-outs, DB25, DB9, V.35 (on DB25), RS530 (RS422/485), T1 and RJ45. |
| RS-XXX V.XX |
A quick romp through the alphabet soup of EIA/TIA RS-XXX amd ITU V.XX standards. |
| Serial Primer |
Signal/Pin Functions, Asynchronous, Synchronous and Bit-Synchronous systems. Balanced and unbalanced serial interfaces and electrical properties. Heavy stuff. |
| Telephone wiring |
ISDN U and S/T wiring. Analog one day real soon™. |
