New build & Ethernet Question

[jodydoc1888]

Hi all, I recently purchased a newly built home in a new development. I had asked for 2 Ethernet ports to be installed which was done, one in my (office) and one in my bedroom. My internet is due to be installed next week, so out of curiosity when I was thinking about network switches etc I searched for the other ends of the Ethernet cables from the ports - which I could not find. I took the face plates off each port and there is cat6 wire connected. Searching further, I found only one blue cat6 cable behind the blank master socket in the living room. I would have thought there should have been two cables? This one cable behind the master socket has just got a straight cut, no end or cables stripped back (maybe the BT engineer connects this)

My question is really, have the guys installed the ports, and maybe joined the two cables upstairs in my 2 rooms into a splitter box of some sort, and fed the one cable down to the master socket? Firstly will this work and If so, will this slow my internet speeds down, and secondly, will I still be able to connect two devices at the same time?

Thanks for any help.

 

[vapour]

there should be a hub that connects to all the network outlets in the house. Mine is in the basement, so basically the internet company will feed internet to the hub and it amplifies to feed into your outlets. Ask the builder where it is and you should be fine.

 

[jodydoc1888]

there should be a hub that connects to all the network outlets in the house. Mine is in the basement, so basically the internet company will feed internet to the hub and it amplifies to feed into your outlets. Ask the builder where it is and you should be fine.

Hi mate, thanks for your reply. I understand what you mean, but I cannot locate the hub as such. The only place I can find a cat6 is behind the main (temporarily blank) internet faceplate downstairs - so it appears the the 2 cables upstairs have been joined/connected - and fed down to this port?

Would this result in a loss of speed at all? I have been trying to get in touch with my builder today but no joy, im sure I will see him though soon as the house im in is the 1st of 31 so the men are always knocking around somewhere.

I was just under the impression if I have 2 ports upstairs, I should have 2 cables coming down to one central area somewhere, but as it seems, there is one cable only coming down from the top, which leads me to believe 2 upstairs have been connected somewhow, which to me sounds like the more complicated thing to do in the first place? I hope im wrong, and I will know tomorrow as an engineer has phoned in the last few mins to say he will call out tomorrow to fit the master socket downstairs (a week early, happy days)

 

[vapour]

if only 2 ports, that is much easier, let's call it H and L
the internet company will pull in internet, maybe drill a hole on the wall and pull in a cable.
It feeds into the modem/router, then the router itself is a hub. One output can feed to tv/internet on L, second output feeds H through that L-H connection cat6, so you have both H and L ethernet, H+L speed <= max bandwidth.

 

[nigelivey]

Utter nonsense, both cables should be terminated at the router/switch. Unles you want your incoming service upstairs which would be odd!! you can not join the cables. both cables should be home runs back to the router. -------Incoming line-------Router----------Line 1
|------------Line 2
If they have daisy chained the cables it will work for telephone, not ethernet.

 

[jodydoc1888]

Hi Nigel, I can't quote on mobile but thanks for the reply. At this point until I see the builder I cannot work out why I have 2 cat6 ports upstairs which are wired (I took off face plates) have searched everywhere in the house for 2 cables at the other end and have only found one, rolled up behind the blank faceplate.. Hopefully the engineer can help me tomorrow.

 

[jodydoc1888]

So head being fried, I looked again, I can confirm in one port is a cat6 cable behind a faceplate upstairs, running down to the main socket.

The other ethernet socket, appears to have two cat6 cables (same as the other one, but the txt is hard to read, the input being the faceplate also reads cat6)

Now I'm more curious as this is now 3 cables running somewhere but only one opposite end can be found.

Is it possible that there is only one cat6 cable running to main socket, and the other 2 cables on other port are maybe for another telephone? I just can't see the opposite end of these 2?

The port that has one cable I can read the cable clearly, cat6, the one with the two cables I cannot read clearly due to over spray when the idiots where painting.. But I can see they are both the same blue colour.

If you can't help it's ok, there are engineers due out at 2pm today.

Thanks.