Friday, June 7, 2024 at 4:50 PM
We're selling my mom's office. She will thus be working from our home for a few months while we build the new house starting in September or October. I want her to have her own telephone and internet. That way, when I make changes to my network, she will still have internet access. She will be working from her bedroom upstairs or the table outside on our patio. The only cable that goes from the basement to the common area upstairs is an old Category 3 cable with three pairs (blue, orange and green). Yesterday, I terminated the cable in the basement. I also tested both telephone and ethernet on that Cat3 cable with my cable tester. I put the telephone on the blue pair and the ethernet on the orange and green pairs. That way, when the Vidéotron technician moves the modem from the office to our basement, he will be able to connect telephone and internet through that cable and install the Wi-Fi router on the desk upstairs where the cable terminates. I will then be able to connect her printer/fax to the Wi-Fi router and the telephone line. She will be able to both send and receive faxes. In the basement, I screwed the telephone plug to the wall and used plumbing strapping to secure the Keystone RJ45 plug. Although that Cat3 cable is really meant for 10 Mbit/s, I have used it at 100 Mbit/s and it works fine.