I’ve recently bought a new house and I’m renovating it with my parents. My father organised with electricians to run Ethernet cables to some of the rooms and to move the phone line from the kitchen to the office. They completed the works today and ran everything to one faceplate in my office but the in line is now an Ethernet port. The modem I got from my ISP requires a standard phone line to connect up, and I don’t have any adapter cables. Should I contact the electricianS and get them to redo the cabling? Should I purchase a RJ12 to RJ45 cable?

  • TropicPine@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    You will get better feedback if you unscrew the faceplate and post a picture of the back of the newly installed jack, a copy of any text you can read on the cable and whatever is at the other end of the cable.

    You can plug a phone cord (rj11 or rj12) into an ethernet jack. Over time, you can bend the pins in the ethernet jack doing this, but fixing this is easy.