Internet thru Ethernet ports

[Jeffenburg]

I have Spectrum cable set up, with the router in the living room connected via coax thru the wall.

In the bedroom closet there is a cabinet with some kind of splitter or switch with wires going in, and there were 6 or 7 cat5 cables dangling, which I've connected a switch to.

Now, when I connect a PC to an ethernet port, it connects to an unidentified LAN network, but there is no internet connection. I tried connecting the router downstairs to the ethernet port too, but that made no difference.

Question is...does the router need to be upstairs, plugged into the switch? If so, how do I get the coax signal into it?

Slightly confused as this is the first time I've done this!

 

[bill001g]

You should be able to hook your router to the port in the room it is in and a PC to any other jack in the house. It really is the same as if you ran a long cable from the router over the floor to the switch and then ran another long cable over the floor from the switch to the pc.

I would be suspect of some issue with your cabling. Make sure what you are plugging the cables into is a actually switch and not some patch panel. It will be a device that has electrical power. Many times these cabinets are wired for telephone so you may have to rewire it and put a switch in the panel.

 

[jsmithepa]

U can't just start plugging things in wo knowing how it's all wired. None of it are labeled I assume.

 

[Jeffenburg]

The cables all work; when I plug two computers into different ethernet ports, they are both visible on the home network.

My question really pertains to how to get internet access to them. @bill001g - that's what I thought; I presumed the router's internet access would go through the cables to each socket, seeing as it's connected the same as the other PCs (incidentally the PCs do go onto the network when plugged into socket that the router is plugged into, so that socket does work).

@jsmithpa - why can't I? It's my house lol.

 

[jsmithepa]

@jsmithpa - why can't I? It's my house lol.

Home owners often don't know how it was wired.

1. You are not the first owner.
2. Builders did not leave you a diagram, not in the public records, not labeled.

OK so the PC see each other, GREAT, you have a LAN, now your next task is, run a CAT5 from modem to LAN, conceptually simple, but once again, how do you get, (physically, is there a CAT5) that goes from modem location to LAN location?

 

[Jeffenburg]

@jsmithpa - why can't I? It's my house lol.

Home owners often don't know how it was wired.

1. You are not the first owner.
2. Builders did not leave you a diagram, not in the public records, not labeled.

OK so the PC see each other, GREAT, you have a LAN, now your next task is, run a CAT5 from modem to LAN, conceptually simple, but once again, how do you get, (physically, is there a CAT5) that goes from modem location to LAN location?

I am the first owner, it's a new build.

I plugged the router into the living room ethernet port, is that what you mean? That didn't work...still no internet.

Or do you mean run the a cat5 all the way from the router, upstairs to the cabinet?

 

[bill001g]

Lets say you were to plug a pc into the living room jack and another pc into another jack and they would work....not sure how you got ip address though....it means you cabling likely is good.

You should in theory just be able to plug your router lan port into the living room jack and it should work. The wires and switch should not know if it is pc or a router.

Now there are a couple things. If for some reason the cables are only running 100m it may not negotiate the auto duplex stuff right. I would look for bad wiring. You do not want to use a cross over cable to solve this it should just work. The other things is if you are getting Ip addresses on your pc when you do not have the router connected then you likely have a router in the cabinet and not a switch. Not sure what you want to do about that. You should be able to disable the dhcp for the router in the cabenet.

 

[Jeffenburg]

Ok well thanks for the help guys.

Turns out that I had it set up correctly all along. We had a power cut this morning and post power cut it works fine in all the ethernet ports. Leading me to believe a simple off/on of the router would have solved it.

Shoulda thought of that!!