Need a certain cable

Hello everyone, haven't been on here for a while! Hope you've all been great.

I am in need of a certain cable that goes from my DSL modem straight to the wall jack. It's not a standard RJ11 cable, although the jack is RJ11. I can tell that the pinout is different. It is labled as "CAT 5 Patch Cable." Anyone here seen an RJ11 patch cable being sold? I can't seem to locate one.

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TheShadow

Vask3n wrote:

Hello everyone, haven't been on here for a while! Hope you've all been great.

I am in need of a certain cable that goes from my DSL modem straight to the wall jack. It's not a standard RJ11 cable, although the jack is RJ11. I can tell that the pinout is different. It is labled as "CAT 5 Patch Cable." Anyone here seen an RJ11 patch cable being sold? I can't seem to locate one.

A CAT 5 Patch Cable is normally a RJ45 cable to go to your Ethernet card or router. While you could use CAT 5 to the wall jack on a RJ11 but what would be the point because behind the wall plug is CAT 3 or less cable. In either case any computer or electronics store can sell you one. Any pre-made CAT-5 100 ft or less is called a patch cable.

In a pinch if it is a wall plug cable then a normal cable used for signal or dual phone lines should work. That is all they normally send with the westell modems used by Verizon DSL which just ship with a standard 26avg two wire RJ11. I ended up with a spare modem due to first level support being convinced the modem was bad until the engineers figured out a bad DSLAM was it. The brand of modem that I had before was no different.

So I am looking at an unopened cable pack which includes such in standard gray along with a CAT5 RJ45 cable for the Ethernet connection in yellow and a USB cable in blue in case you have no Ethernet connection. The wall plug cable is a two wire connector red green on the RJ11. They even cheap-ed out and have only two of the gold pins in it meaning any old phone cable will work.

Plantwiz

Vask3n wrote:

Hello everyone, haven't been on here for a while! Hope you've all been great.

I am in need of a certain cable that goes from my DSL modem straight to the wall jack. It's not a standard RJ11 cable, although the jack is RJ11. I can tell that the pinout is different. It is labled as "CAT 5 Patch Cable." Anyone here seen an RJ11 patch cable being sold? I can't seem to locate one.

What brand of modem do you have?

I've used 2wire and they generally have adapters available, or you can buy them at a Verizon store as mentioned.

Danman32

Also what you might need is a DSL filter for your phones. But don't use the filter on your DSL connection, since the filter's job is to remove the DSL for the device connecting to it.