GE Cat5 Network Wall Plate Straight Through Cable Setup
Installing Cat5 network wall plates can be a very confusing and tedious task, but with the right directions and hints you will be able to install the network wall plates in a jiffy. Before we start wiring the Cat5 network wall plates, let me tell you a story.
I recently installed a couple of GE network and coaxial wall plates in my apartment, to bridge the gap between the wall between my two rooms. After looking at the directions that GE provided to install the Cat5 network wall plates. I realized that they were really confusing, uninformative and plainly just piss poor directions. So I decided to write this how to guide on install GE cat5 network wall plates to make your job easier. This should also work for other network wall plate brands, just make sure that you match up the correct cable color with the right pin number.
To begin the installation of the cat5 network wall plates, you will first need to strip off about 2 inches of the plastic shield to expose the eight color wires inside. Next you will then need strip off about 3/8 to 1/2 inch of the dielectric material to expose the copper conductor.
Remember to only strip off enough of the dielectric material that you will need to work with because if you expose too much copper conductor this could create crosstalk in the cable. After you have stripped the cat5 cable to the proper length, will then need to use the following chart to wire a straight-though cable connection to the GE network wall plate.
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this was exactly what i needed to wire my house for internet thank you
Perfect!. GE sells this plate at Home Depot but can’t tell you how to wire it. Bingo. You nailed it.. Thanks
why couldn’t they have done that ? Thanks for the help ! works great now …
machesked…you are a sweetheart!!! I can fix the entire house now..the electrician couldn’t even do this!! But now I can. Thanks so much!!
Thanks. I appreciate someone making some sense.
I agree with the other messages. Thanks for helping. I was surprised there was not any direction sheet in the package. They should print this site and include it in the future packages!
why couldn’t GE package designers be as GENIUS as you? I mean, I’m really glad they let me know where to put the screws, because that was SOO tricky.
THANK YOU!
THANK YOU! I have done networking for the last 10 years and I have never seen the colors they provided on the back of their connector.I wired it as if I were doing a normal straight through. I must still have a kink somewhere because according to your chart I did it correctly, but I needed to find some reference since GE did not include any – this bit of instruction was MUCH NEEDED! Thanks again,
Thank you so much! This help a lot!
Perfect!!! Saved us a lot of time!
Thanks a million! Makes you wonder how it got packaged without instructions. I have one question. I am running cat 5E to the opposite side of the house (lets call this wallplate 2). Wallplate 1 will be near my router. I want to make things look neat by coming from my router with a patch cord to wall plate 1. My question is, will my wiring be just the opposite on one end or will both be the same? Thanks
The wiring will be the same on both wall plates. If you hooked it up opposite on the other end, you would have a cross over connection.
I have fought with this for a few hours tonight and just found this site. I have 6 wires in my ethernet cable and am using 2 of them (blue and blue/white) for phone. I want to use the other 4 (orange, orange/white, green, green/white) for my network. I have this set up on another jack in the house but I did not install it and I can’t get to it as it is buried behind the TV wall unit. I followed the instructions above but am still not working. Is a 4 wire set up different than the 8 wire above? Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance.
As far as I know, you need all eight cables in the ethernet cable just for the network. A few of the cables are for transmitting and receiving data. Others will be used for power and grounding.
Thanks this help a lot. And got me out of trouble on a job site.
If I shut off “airport” on my wife’s Apple Mac Book and plug in the Ethernet cable from the wireless router to the laptop, I get an internet connection. When I plug the cable back into the GE wall plate (the wiring is exactly as you have listed, on both ends), and plug in an Ethernet cable from the wall plate to the laptop I cannot get an internet connection. Any idea what could be wrong? I even changed out the wall plates in two different rooms in case they were the problem. Can I run the Cat6 cable from wall plate to wall plate?
Thanks for any help you can give me.
You can run cat6 cable to connect the two wall plates together. Make sure that when you connect each cable to the wall plate, that the exposed copper cable is only connected to the right connector and is not touch any other connector. This could short out the connection.
THANK YOU! That was perfect! GE’s instruction was not user friendly. They assumed people are tech savvy. Thanks again.
I have cable internet and only one jack in my bedroom and the modem is connected to that jack. My question is..How can I get cable TV in my room when the only jack is being used by the modem? Tried an splitter but the internet goes down. Please advice.
The problem you are having is that the cable signal is being split too many times causing a weak signal for your cable modem. The way to run cable tv and cable internet is to place a two way splitter at the main feed. The main feed is where the cable company ran a cable from the electrical pole to your house. Once you install the two way splitter run one cable from the output to your modem, then run another cable from the other output to your tv. If you have to run multiple tv’s then you can hook another splitter to to the two way splitter. If you are only running one tv and one modem in the same room, find the splitter that the cable company installed and barrel the lines together, then move the two way splitter into that room. You could also be using the wrong type of cable or a splitter that doesn’t hold the right frequencies for you cable internet service. Make sure that you are using RG-6 coaxial cable and a splitter that hold 2150MHz.
Hey thank you so much for this information, Internet works fine now in all rooms thanks to this advice
We will never understand why GE doesnt use the same color code then in the Network Cables, so dont waste you time time thinking about that, just do the wiring like its listed here 
I have GE Network WallPlate connected to one end of the CAT5 and wired the same as the above screen shot. However, what i would like to know is how to wire the other end of the cable using the RJ45 jack (male) so that i can connect it to a Router?
I tried to wire the RJ35 jack male as follow:
White/Orange
Orange
White/Green
Blue,
White/Blue
Green
White/Brown
Brown
However it doesn’t seem to work. Can you please give me some ideas how to wire it on the male end?
thanks in advance
Traitimmapu
This wrote this article to show how to wire two ethernet wall plates together, plus I forgot that not all people use switches in their house. You might need a cross over cable to connect your pc to your router, you could either rewire the ethernet wall plate, or the connector.
1. White/green
2. green
3. white/orange
4. blue
5. white/blue
6. orange
7. white/brown
8. brown
Thanks Machesked for the update.
I’m still confused. If I’m using Ethernet CAT5 cable to connect from the Wall plate to my computer. I would wire the wall plate as the same as the above. But for the other end of the Wall Plate wire I would wire as you mentioned below to connect this end to the router correct?
1. White/green
2. green
3. white/orange
4. blue
5. white/blue
6. orange
7. white/brown
8. brown
Thanks
Traitimmapu
Yep. By wiring one end according to the original document and then the other end according to what I wrote yesterday, you will create a cross over cable.
Thanks machesked!
I will try it out and let you know if it works or not.
Not a problem.
Hi Machesked,
I tried the wiring you sugguested and i’m not getting connection.
Thanks
A wire has to be hooked up wrong or you have a defective product somewhere.
Thank you for writing this guide. I just purchased these wall plates and found the directions as you put it “piss poor” also. You saved the day for me and eliminated a lot of trouble shooting for me I am sure. Thanks again!
Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!