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"My jacks were Levinton 6p6c. The patch pannel was 568 punched b,o,g,b."

The problem is with your jacks. Either put a 8-pin 568-B jack in place of the 6-pin USOC jacks, or swap the Green and Orange pairs at the jack.

Ok...I did that and now they work but my polarity is not correct. My tester shows red instead of green. What pairs do I start switching???

The first pair w/bl would be the pair to reverse for correct polarity. The Avaya Partner 18D phones are not polarity sensitive. I would reverse them at the patch panel unless you want to visit and open each jack.

it sounds like u have 8 wires 568b at one end and 6 wires at the other or jack end
what colors are you using at the jack end ?
it would seem to me that u would be using the blues and oranges in the jack end
on the middle 4 pins /and a 4 wire jumper in to the box it should work
if your using greens and oranges at the jack
it would seem to me you now have to put the greens and oranges in pins 3-4-5-6 at the patch panel with 4-5 to t/r of jack
and other 2 wires ? to 3-6
or change the jack ends to match the blues and orange of the patch panel

[This message has been edited by KENB (edited May 20, 2005).]

On the patch pannel I had to reverse the white orange already just to get connectivity.

I am using w/b and w/o punched on the blue and green posts of the patch pannel. On the jacks I punched the blue, orange, and green to a 6p6c. On the pannel I punched the blue correctly and the orange backwaards on the green posts.

search on the internet for leviton 6p6c
the jacks you are using .it will come up showing the usoc code and the pins 1-2-3-4-5-6- of your jack
its sounds like you said you put the blues on 1-2
the oranges on 3-4 and the greens on 5-6
you need to get whatever is on pins 3-4 of your jack to the blues on your panel and 2-5
to the oranges on your panel
good luck
if that doesnt work for you put the panel back the way it belongs and change the jacks to 568b
if this is on a cust site it has to be wastin a lot of time and may be cheaper to change the jacks

i wire everything to 568a then the jack can be voice or data

hey guys iam i missing something here. What im hearing is he is wiring using voice jacks (6 conductor) on the one side and 8 conductor on the other end 568a scheme. as long as he observes the color code he will have no problem with continuity and as was also mentioned polarity will be no issue. they wont be working ethernet.

You're right, 568a or b no matter. Have to have pins 4&5 on 8 pin to 3&4 on 6 pin and 3&6 on 8 pin to 2&5 on 6pin. So W/bl pair on center pins as always than w/org or w/gr pair on the other two, as long as they are the same. Be less confussing for them to just use 4 or 6 pin on each end.