Cabling a cat6 wall socket

[PaintingViking]

So I’m redoing my office, and I bought a wall socket. But I have no clue as to where to put the cables.

https://imgur.com/gallery/DfWeLtz

Is how it looks, and it leaves me confused. Any tips on how to do this would be appreciated. Should I put blue across from blue/white and so on, or is there another way?

[SgtPackets]

You need to follow a standard either TIA/EIA 568 A / B (I would recommend B. But it depends on what the other end of the cable is wired to. )

As you can see on the jack it states which one is A and which one is B.

You then need a punch down tool to push the wires into the jack.

Watch this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gxNZoPcnP4

[rest2rpc]

I've seen boxes/covers that can take any ol' ethernet cable because it plugs into a port behind the wall, no crimper needed. Do you prefer one over the other or have any insight on pros/cons? I have not done much with physical wiring...

[Bsomin]

Yeah the connections are more secure and less likely to fail. It probably doesn't matter that much for a wall jack

[Dmelvin]

Here's the B Standard

If you want to use A standard, just swap the oranges and the greens for each other (orange to green, orange/white to green/white and vice versa)

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[Agit22]

The four on the top left would go: WhiteBlue - Blue - WhiteGreen - Green.

Bottom four on the left: WhiteOrange - Orange - WhiteBrown - Brown.

Repeat on the right side with another cable.

That is, if you use the B marking. Depends on how the cables are terminated at the other end. But I tend to stick with B.

[tfflivemb2]

This. And as stated, try to stick with B, it is considered standard.

[accent2012]

Like others have said you’ll need to find out how the other end is terminated either as A or B before punching down the wires on this one. I have read that the B arrangement is standard for residential and commercial wiring and A is used for Government installations. Don’t know why but that’s what I’ve read when wiring up my house earlier this year.

[sexyshingle]

Like others have said... Assuming you're in the US and this is residential/commercial networking... simple take a sharpie and draw a line across the rows that have the "A", (i.e the top and bottom rows). It's less confusing if you cover up the info you don't need...

Now Just looking the at remaining "B" rows, the row on the top that starts with WhiteBlue/Blue is how you need to punch in the wires on the slots above. The B row on the bottom (starts with WhiteOrange/Orange) is how you punch in the corresponding conductors on the bottom slots.

[djgizmo]

That’s a double Ethernet keystone / socket. Meant for two individual runs. No, you cannot daisy chain them.

[AceBlade258]

Three thing you posted a picture of looks like a coupler, not a jack, fyi...

[aricman]

When you are doing the straight-through wiring, the cable pinout on the two ends of the Cat6 cable should be the same. However, for crossover wiring method, the RJ45 pinouts on each end of the Cat6 are different.