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how to wire cat5e cable to a wall plate when the colors dont match?
the wall plate is a rca tph551 with the colors red, black, orange, blue, green, yellow, brown, and white.
the cable has a pinkish, reddish brown, light green, blue, light blue, green, white, and brown. I dont know which colors to match with which
the wallplate is using standard colors for regular low-voltage wire. Probably for home theater use or other audio/visual. Still it may be possible to use even though it is definitely not a network jack. If you purchased it though, I'd return it.
The cable colors you give don't make any sense though. A regular cable should have four pairs of wires with each pair twisted around each other. the pairs are orange, green, blue and brown. the other wire in the pair would be the color striped with white (orange/white for instance).
A network port would show those same colors and you then just punch like colors together.
This looks like a good site with pictures:
http://www.handymanhowto.com/2009/01/19/how-to-install-an-ethernet-jack-for-a-home-network/
If the cable is not twisted pair i would not use it at all. You need the twists in order to reduce interference enough.
The wiki article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_5_cable) shows enough to figure out what wires go to which pins. But I would really recommend getting the right jacks and cable rather than spend a lot of time trying to figure out which pin goes with which wire and in the end have a much less than optimal solution if it works at all.
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