Hi,
I recently moved into a new house and the network situation is as follows:
In the house, there are 11 LAN ports (+ 2 telephone ports) in the walls of various rooms
In the basement, there are 9 LAN ports (+ 2 telephone ports) all close together
I assume each of the 11 LAN ports in the house is wired to one of the 9 LAN ports in the basement (with 2 spare) but nothing is labelled
When the local ISP installer came, he connected the modem to one of the basement ports and after a lot of trial and error, got the router working in a port in the dining room upstairs, which works fine for WiFi around the house
However, I noticed that my Smart TV in the lounge was buffering when streaming, so bought a 10m network cable to temporarily move the router to the lounge to see if that fixed the issue, which it did.
So ideally, I would like to either (a) hardwire the TV to one of the 3x unused network ports closest to the TV or (b) move the router to that location and run the smart TV over the WiFi
I moved the router next the network ports next to the TV and tried to find the corresponding port in the basement, but the modem fails to sync (I have tried each of the 3x TV ports with each of the 9 basement ports). I have also tried the wall ports in each of the rooms with each of the 9 basement ports but also no joy - the only combination which works is the connection that the ISP installer found
Where am I going wrong?
Many thanks!
William
I recently moved into a new house and the network situation is as follows:
In the house, there are 11 LAN ports (+ 2 telephone ports) in the walls of various rooms
In the basement, there are 9 LAN ports (+ 2 telephone ports) all close together
I assume each of the 11 LAN ports in the house is wired to one of the 9 LAN ports in the basement (with 2 spare) but nothing is labelled
When the local ISP installer came, he connected the modem to one of the basement ports and after a lot of trial and error, got the router working in a port in the dining room upstairs, which works fine for WiFi around the house
However, I noticed that my Smart TV in the lounge was buffering when streaming, so bought a 10m network cable to temporarily move the router to the lounge to see if that fixed the issue, which it did.
So ideally, I would like to either (a) hardwire the TV to one of the 3x unused network ports closest to the TV or (b) move the router to that location and run the smart TV over the WiFi
I moved the router next the network ports next to the TV and tried to find the corresponding port in the basement, but the modem fails to sync (I have tried each of the 3x TV ports with each of the 9 basement ports). I have also tried the wall ports in each of the rooms with each of the 9 basement ports but also no joy - the only combination which works is the connection that the ISP installer found
Where am I going wrong?
Many thanks!
William