Ethernet wall jacks problem

[jotunoveski]

Hi, firt time here, so i just found out my house has ethernet jacks, but when i connect my router to a jack and my pc to a diferent jack in another room, my pc won't recognize ethernet connection.(wi-fi pc off ofc)
But when directly plugged to the router i can have Ethernet. The problem i believe is that the jack that im using with my router might not be the one that gives other jacks ethernet, or i mean the main one. How can i verify which one is the main one? I know that before me the people who lived here had ethernet connection, i just dont know where they had the router or connected to which jack, TY

 

[kanewolf]

Wall plugs in a home have to go to a central location. You need to find out where those cables go. You will have to put a switch at that central location.

 

[jsmithepa]

i just dont know where they had the router or connected to which jack, TY

Well then, that's your #1 task. As ^he says FIND THE JUNCTION.

 

[jotunoveski]

Yeah ty guys, i believe its one of the two at my pc room, but i still need a switch to connet to jack adn then connect pc to switch?
Sorry for dumb questions, but i always had ethernet connected straight from route(not possible in this house)

 

[kanewolf]

If router is in room "A" and PC is in room "B" then somewhere there is a central location where the cables from room A and B are co-located. You would put a LAN port from the router into the wall plate in A which would go to a port on a switch in the common location. Then the cable from B would plug into that switch and you would get a network between A and B. Since you have a switch in the common location, you could enable wall plugs in "C", "D", and "E" without changing the router.

 

[jotunoveski]

Ty so much, its what im going to do, any good but not very expensive switches?

 

[bill001g]

What do you consider inexpensive.

This is one has 8 ports and is 10/100/1000. Many stores sell this one.
https://www.amazon.com/TP-Link-Ethernet-Optimization-Unmanaged-TL-SG108/dp/B00A121WN6

You can save a little bit by going to only 5 ports or only buying 10/100 switches but I doubt you get it under $10 so this one is a better value.

 

[jotunoveski]

I dont understand the giganet thing when buying, if i only have 100Mb7s internet, do i have any improvements with giganet ones or should i just buy a 10/100 one?

 

[kanewolf]

I dont understand the giganet thing when buying, if i only have 100Mb7s internet, do i have any improvements with giganet ones or should i just buy a 10/100 one?

If you stream media internal to your home or want to backup to a network share, you will benefit from gigabit switch. There is no downside to having gigabit networking internal to your house.

 

[jotunoveski]

Yeah, thank you, jsut noticed the price isn't even that much more so... giga it is