Recent content by Joonius

Yup, just a broken cable in my bedroom. All other phone jacks were successfully converted to ethernet. Time to crawl up in the attic!

Small update I replaced two other phone jacks with RJ45 and they both get internet... all 8 links light up. I then connected the wire tracker to these new ports while having the other tracker in my bedroom and no link lights... so far no daisy chain. There are only 3 more phone jacks in the...

But won't I need a coax feed to be present behind each wall plate in each room? There is only a single cat5e cable there. That's my plan today, I'll terminate all the ethernet wires in the wiring closet and run tests from outlet to outlet. I'll report back my findings, thanks! edit: Not sure...

Good point on the possibility of a broken wire. So I still have hope that the other wires are possibly "home runs" then. I did consider moca adapters at one time but unfortunately, the ATT service I have is fiber and coax isnt used.

My bedroom is the main room that I need hard-wired. 😞 Since all wires lead to the central wiring closet, is there anything I can do here to "connect" the daisy chain? Like a dummy switch or something?

I've moved into a fairly newly-built home and there are phone jacks everywhere (6 to be exact) and they're all using cat5e cables. My plan, after reading many threads online, is to convert them all to ethernet cables for gigabit internet. So here's what I found: * communication box outside...