WiringOffice

The office has two (2) connection locations:
Desk Cubby
Sound System Cabinet

Main Office Desk Cubby wiring

Desk Cubby 2-gang
"Office" CAT5
Blue + Orange	Telephone	Green + Brown	Ethernet #1
"OfficeData" CAT5
(blank)		Green + Brown	Ethernet #2 (pass-through to Master BR #2 (North))
COAX	F-connector	Blue + Orange	Ethernet #3 (pass-through to Master BR #3 (North))

Office Sound System Cabinet

Desk Sound System - loose CAT5 cables
"Office Extra #1" CAT5
"Office Extra #2" CAT5
"Office Extra #3" CAT5
"RISE ANTENNA" CAT5

Office Desk Cubby

The office desk cubby had three (3) blue CAT5 cables:

Office #1
Office "OffData" #2
Office-to-MasterBR

The Office-to-MasterBR cable simply runs from the office box to the Master BR box on the North wall. Some thoughts:

I can simply put a blank wallplate on both Office and Master BR boxes and forget about it
I can use this this cable to "pass through" any circuit from the office, such as telephone and/or daisy-chain Ethernet
I can use this cable to supply a separate Ethernet connection to the Master BR by simply splicing to either Office #1 or Office #2 cable and let it terminate in the Master BR

2025-02-28

With two CAT5 cables from the wiring closet available, I will be able to have the following configuration:
- One (1) Telephone jack (using Blue and Orange pairs of the "Office" CAT5 cable)
- Three (3) Ethernet jacks (using Green and Brown pairs of the "Office" CAT5 cable, and, using the Green and Brown pairs, and Blue and Orange pairs of the "OffData" CAT5 cable)

"OFFICE" CAT5 CABLE
PIN	TELEPHONE JACK	ETHERNET JACK #1
1	(nc)	Green/White
2	Orange/White	Green
3	Blue	Brown/White
4	Blue/White
5	Orange
6	(nc)	Brown
7
8

With no telephone provisioned on the "OffData" cable, I will have two Ethernet jacks, each using four (4) conductors. This will deviate from the 586A Standard that I am generally following, this way:

"OFFDATA" CAT5 CABLE
PIN	ETHERNET JACK #2	ETHERNET JACK #3
1	Green/White	Blue/White
2	Green	Blue
3	Brown/White	Orange/White
4
5
6	Brown	Orange
7
8

With the discovery of a cable that runs from Office Desk Cubby to the Master BR North Wall, I have elected to daisy chain the "OffData" cable Ethernet jacks (#2 and #3) to the cable that runs to the Master BR North Wall, so the complete wiring for these jacks is:

"OFFDATA" CAT5 CABLE
	ETHERNET JACK #2		ETHERNET JACK #3
PIN	INCOMING	OUTGOING	INCOMING	OUTGOING
1	Green/White		Blue/White
2	Green		Blue
3	Brown/White		Orange/White
4		Green		Blue
5		Green/White		Blue/White
6	Brown		Orange
7		Brown/White		Orange/White
8		Brown		Orange

To activate the "pass through," a jumper plug for Jack #2 and Jack #3 on the office side are used, to connect the Master BR North Wall jacks.
As was done with the Main Master BR CAT5 cable, for the two Ethernet jacks (#2 and #3) that daisy-chain further down the line, I have configured an RJ45 plug for each jack that does two things:
1. jumpers the pins downstream to the next jack
2. prevents connection of two computers to the same CAT5e cable (by removing the jumper plug the downstream wiring is disconnected)
- This jumper plug is configured thusly:
  - 1 connected to pin 5
  - 2 connected to pin 4
  - 3 connected to pin 7
  - 4 connected to pin 2
  - 5 connected to pin 1
  - 6 connected to pin 8
  - 7 connected to pin 3
  - 8 connected to pin 6
  - That is (using Green and Brown pairs, as an example):

PIN	INCOMING	OUTGOING
1	Green/White
2	Green
3	Brown/White
4		Green
5		Green/White
6	Brown
7		Brown/White
8		Brown

Office Sound System Cabinet

The office sound system cabinet has four (4) white CAT5 cables, looking like they were add-ons:

Office Extra #1 runs to the HKVision security camera DVR
Office Extra #2 runs to the Honeywell VISTA security system box (but is not connected)
Office Extra #3 runs to the wiring closet, (Blue pair terminated with RJ11 male connector, in cabinet)
Rise Antenna runs through crawlspace to crawlspace vent, then through vent to exterior, then to the small Rise Broadband dish antenna on South side of house

2026-04-22, Wednesday

Removed the RJ11 connector (on the Blue pair), and crimped an RJ45 connector in it's place using the 586A wiring scheme. Tested cable at this new RJ45 connector through to the Ethernet Patch Panel in the wiring closet. All tested good.