Questions about my Cat5e outlet.

[Guest]

When I built my house, we wired the house to have connected Cat5e outlets in every room for a possible phone line.

My question is, if I plugged my first floor router in one via Ethernet, would I be able to get internet by plugging in a Ethernet cable in a second floor outlet?

Thanks.

 

[ComputerSecurityGuy]

The question is how the cables are laid out. If it has a central switch, no. If it's solely one cable going directly between the two, definitely.

 

[glamdringfh]

As long as the cat5 cable from the first floor plug was connected to 2nd floor outlet either directly or through a switch, yes.

 

[getochkn]

Probably not. When it was built, all the wires from the outlets should terminate in one spot. Basement, closet, somewhere. They need to be connected to a switch, either by plugging the ends in if they have cable ends, or a patch panel if they are bare wires.

 

[Wolfshadw]

Generally speaking, if you've wired your house for networking, all of the Cat5E lines should terminate at a central location. This is where you want your router/modem to be connected.

-Wolf sends

 

[Guest]

Do you know how to find the central outlet?

We wired it for a landline, which we never used.

 

[06yfz450ridr]

so they were wired as phone jacks?


Most newer houses will use cat 5/6 jacks and just wire the two pairs instead of all 4 or wire all 4 pairs to the jack and just terminate the other end with 1 or two pairs for your phone/fax on a block.

if it is hooked this way they should all be going to the same location, you can convert them to strictly network jacks and install a cheap switch and plug your router into the switch to feed all your jack

 

[jsmithepa]

Do you know how to find the central outlet?

Look for a junction box, in the garage, sometimes it's outside. It maybe labeled with AT&T or whoever your local phone provider is.

It may already be terminated with RJ11/RJ45 or on a smaller version of a punch down block like THIS.

 

[Guest]

Do you know how to find the central outlet?

Look for a junction box, in the garage, sometimes it's outside. It maybe labeled with AT&T or whoever your local phone provider is.

It may already be terminated with RJ11/RJ45 or on a smaller version of a punch down block like THIS.

So by my electrical breaker box?

 

[getochkn]

Do you know how to find the central outlet?

Look for a junction box, in the garage, sometimes it's outside. It maybe labeled with AT&T or whoever your local phone provider is.

It may already be terminated with RJ11/RJ45 or on a smaller version of a punch down block like THIS.

So by my electrical breaker box?

Anywhere. We didn't wire the house, no idea where it can go. Sometimes garage, closet, attic, basement, break box, random hall closet. Should have asked the builders where it all went. lol.

And I'm a bit confused, is it wired for a phone line or internet? The jack sizes are different.

 

[Guest]

I don't know if this a thing or not, but I think it may just be cables connecting them all so, for example, we could plug in our main phone into a random one, the plug in as many other phones as we wanted in the other outlets all throughout the house.

If there is not a central outlet, would I just plug the router in wherever?

 

[jsmithepa]

So by my electrical breaker box?

Sometimes, not always. There is not a standard location.

Time to get to know you house!

Where is water shut off, the gas shutoff, all good things to know before you need it in a hurry.

 

[Guest]

So by my electrical breaker box?

Sometimes, not always. There is not a standard location.

Time to get to know you house!

Where is water shut off, the gas shutoff, all good things to know before you need it in a hurry.

First off, I know where those are 😛 second off it is not my house, I'm 16 and I'm seeing if I can get Ethernet on the second floor for my gaming.

My dad keeps telling me it is for a landline, but it looks like http://www.homedepot.com/p/GE-UltraPro-1-Ethernet-RJ45-Wall-Plate-White-87720/203367514

 

[Guest]

Well I is my house kind of...I live there, you know what I mean lol. I was only 5 when we built it, so I don't remember any of where the thing would be.

 

[getochkn]

Does it look like that

or

They are different sizes. One for phone, one for ethernet.

 

[Guest]

Does it look like that

or

They are different sizes. One for phone, one for ethernet.

I think it is the bottom one.

 

[getochkn]

Than that's a phone jack, not either. Easy way to tell, take an ethernet cable, try and plug it in. Does it fit, yes or no. There is your answer.

Now if it is a phone jack, in theory, it could be rewired and the jack replaced, etc but that would require someone who knows they're doing to do all that, and then it's still a matter if wiring it at the other end as well.


You may look at either WIFI or powerline adapters if you want internet upstairs.

 

[Guest]

Than that's a phone jack, not either. Easy way to tell, take an ethernet cable, try and plug it in. Does it fit, yes or no. There is your answer.

Now if it is a phone jack, in theory, it could be rewired and the jack replaced, etc but that would require someone who knows they're doing to do all that, and then it's still a matter if wiring it at the other end as well.


You may look at either WIFI or powerline adapters if you want internet upstairs.

Ok. Have any suggestions for gaming? That is the reason I want Ethernet, so I can get in to some more serious gaming.

 

[derek3ton]

If your dad had the house built and had data ports installed into each room, maybe you should ask him. If he had the knowledge to install them, he should be using them already. "Landline" usually refers to phone, not data. My guess is, it's a phone jack, not RJ-45. Just as geochkn said, powerline adapters are the way to go in this instance. Good luck.

 

[getochkn]

Than that's a phone jack, not either. Easy way to tell, take an ethernet cable, try and plug it in. Does it fit, yes or no. There is your answer.

Now if it is a phone jack, in theory, it could be rewired and the jack replaced, etc but that would require someone who knows they're doing to do all that, and then it's still a matter if wiring it at the other end as well.


You may look at either WIFI or powerline adapters if you want internet upstairs.

Ok. Have any suggestions for gaming? That is the reason I want Ethernet, so I can get in to some more serious gaming.

Then it's either pay someone to rewire the phone lines and turn them into ethernet ports (may be possible if their is enough wire pairs, may not without a total tear down of things), run a long cord from downstairs to upstairs, or powerline adapters or wifi. Not much else to do.

 

[jsmithepa]

second off it is not my house,

First post, you said "When I built my house"

Well thanks for disclosing the real reason you want to do this.

Look, in a forum like this, we can only UNSTUCK you, we are not there, it's up to you to figure things out, how ethernets are connected, what wires are used, what they look like blah-blah, all of which can be found by GOOGLING.

Lots of people post this kind of question often say, "I just want to do this" except that DOING THIS is not so easy.

 

[jsmithepa]

If your dad had the house built

Am finding out when some folks say "I built the house" they really mean they bought it new, and the builder offered this package and that package and the owner, worried that he may need this in the future, told builder to throw it in, without paying attention to exactly what he was paying, or where the junction box maybe or exactly how it's wired.

 

[Guest]

Or, he bought the land, designed he house, thought it would be smart to install that.

 

[derek3ton]

Leave it alone. This isn't the place to go back and forth over nonsense.

 

[06yfz450ridr]

you need to unscrew that wall plate and look at the wire that is run to it, if it only has 4 wires it wont work, well it will in very short runs but I wouldn't do it. the wire should say cat 3 cat 5/5e or 6.

If it is any of those you can terminate the ends for network vs phone and have a hardwired connection heck even add a wifi router and have a switch/wifi combo.


new houses even that have the smaller rj-11 jacks( phone jack) have cat 5e/6 run to them so you are ready to go to rewire them.

you can pick up a new wall plate and ends at homedepot etc. you physically need to find the right cable at the other ned though.

Its's easier for me since I have a toner, wand, and a punchdown tool.


but regardless you should see a block like this with the phone wires looped through all of them

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CAcQjRxqFQoTCOaX5P73-cgCFUakHgodIr0IOA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.majorcustomcable.com%2F1101.html&psig=AFQjCNEtcmhs3OTtWNndHo2foeXDa6bD3A&ust=1446835373370886