atcomsystems.ca/forum Forums Wiring - Telecom Carriers - Trunks & Services T1's, CSU's and DSU's Can a noob do inside wiring for T1?

That should be it.

When you connect to it you'll probably have to call your Vendor and let them know to take the circuit out of Loop Back or Maintenance mode.

Awesome. I'm flying back home won't be back until midnight friday, so Saturday morning I guess I get to hook up my csu/dsu and see how far I get.

Thanks again.

They laid a new wire across my lawn from the telephone box at my neighbors house!

I see that on the customer side of the box I have two jacks, one is handwritten T1 REC, the other, T1 SND. They both have one pair, and the jack that is installed next to them has just two prongs on it.

I'm going to see if I can bring both of those pairs into my house and see what I get.

I had several calls from verizon and another company. Verizon wants to come and do the inside wiring, the other wants to bury the line.

That installation is fairly typical. Current constructions standards are for a 5 or 6 pair buried drop to the house. My guess is that your home only has a two pair drop, so they stole one from your neighbor temporarily. They will bury the proper cable for no charge, but be careful about letting them do any inside wiring. They may charge you an arm and a leg for it.

And make sure they get a 'locate' out there and if you have a septic tank, or well, you NEED to know where the tank and lines to and from, as well as the field, are! They'll have to accept responsibility for the cable tv, natural gas, water, and power if you tell them to get it ALL located. But a septic tank system is sorta left up to the homeowner to know about. Ditto, if you have a well. If you have either and don't know where it lies, the controlling entity, city or county, when the house was built is where you start. Typically, the health department, believe or not. Unless, of course, you know who put it in! John C.

If I take both pairs inside the house, do I hook them up to the Rj48X jack like this? Does this diagram mean that transmit goes to 2 & 5 and receive goes to 1 & 4?




I don't have an RJ48X jack around, I'll have to order one. Is it possible in the meantime to use a Cat-5E jack with the same pins?

Thanks again.

I'm aware of the calling and locating other wiring first. That part of my lawn has a buried propane tank, existing phone line, electrical utility and things they probably won't check for like invisible dog fence and water sprinklers :toothy:

Correct on the wiring and a plain 8pin jack will work. The purpose of the 48X is to keep the circuit live when you pull the mod plug out.

Thanks. :toast:

justbill is half right and probably just misread what you typed.

The T and R stand for Tip and Ring not transmit and receive. On your 8 pin jack pins 4 and 5 will be tx and 1 and 2 will be rx. After you wire your jack up and plug in your csu/dsu you should get a carrier detect (cd) light. If you do you're good to go as far as the wiring, if not, then switch your tx and rx at the jack and see what happens.