How do i set up ethernet in my house?

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babachicken

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I recently moved into a new house, and upon some inspection I found this.
http://i.imgur.com/IjEXn7a.jpg

Looks to be some sort of network thing for phones and ethernet...

All the bedrooms have ethernet ports on the walls, and I want to be able to use them. How do i set up the ethernet so that I can have it in the bed rooms?
 
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Again I don't know your house two story with basement?

So if you are getting a good wifi reception upstairs in the study I would leave it where it is, connect a 1.)Ethernet cord from your router to the wall socket.
2.) Find the wire in that bunch you have downstairs, crimp it like in the video.
3.) Buy a switch (i've used this one a bunch of times http://www.staples.com/NETGEAR-ProSAFE-GS105NA-5-Port-Gigabit-Ethernet-Desktop-Switch/product_565423?externalize=certona but others can chime in here)
4.) connect it to the switch
5.) crimp and connect the other two bedrooms cables to the switch.

Reason I don't want your router in the basement is concrete walls that will really diminish your wifi signals.

If you REALLY want to put the...


look at this photo
http://i.imgur.com/T9FZBsA.jpg

i opened up one of the wall ethernet ports and saw the gray wire (in the photo) and the pink wires. the grey wires were the ones that were connected to the wall port (panels 1 and 2) not the right 2, they are the grey cables that are coming from beneath

in the photo that i linked, the gray wires are hooked up to this green board thing. if i were to remove them from this green thing and use them as the ethernet cables, would it be just fine? it says cat 5e on the grey cables.

this would just lessen the work of having to rewire all the ethernet ports on the wall right?
 
I realize I may be late to this thread but if you go back and look at boosted1g post it describes what you should do. It is much more clear now that you removed the cables from those first 2 boards.

You should not have to rewire anything....hopefully. You should be able to buy short ethernet cables and plug from the ports the grey cable connect to directly to the new switch you will buy.