Wiring Stuff

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™.

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