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Old 2009-10-07, 01:00   Link #20312
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Originally Posted by Ithekro View Post
RJ-25 is a phone wire type with six pins (from the wall to the modem). Most modern computers use Cat5 or Cat6 which is the 8-pin version used between the modem and the router/computer.
Exactly. Of course, this leads to the other problem...

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Originally Posted by Joe4evr View Post
That would make it RJ-45, EVERY router has RJ-45.
... Wherein dial-up modems don't use Cat5e or 6e, which makes it impossible for them to interface with every router I've ever seen. In fact, I've never come across a dial-up modem that wasn't an internal computer component that the phone line plugged directly into (with no router interfacing at all).

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Originally Posted by Joe4evr View Post
Also, isn't the 6-pin phone wire called RJ-11?
There actually seem to be a couple of varieties of 6-pin... I've come across RJ-25 a lot before, so I assumed that was the most common one. Wikipedia seems to agree with you that most phone cables are RJ-11s, though.
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