Hi all,
I apologize for the coming lengthy post beforehand.
I was in the process of wiring my parents home for internet service. I have been over many time and noticed that in every room they had wall outlets with phone/internet/cable jacks. I took a trip into the basement to see what they had for wiring and they definitely had a ton of ethernet and coaxial cable run with connections terminating near their fuse panel but I couldnt see any phone line. However, upon closer inspection, all of the ports on the wall outlets are phone outlets and it looks as though all but one of the ethernet cables are being used to run the phone lines and not internet.
Basement Fuse Panel
Wall Outlet
Inner Wall Outlet. Here you can see a single ethernet cable wired into 4 phone outlets.
Ethernet Wiring Bundle
In the last photo, you can see the single blue ethernet cable (cable farthest right) not wired together with any of the other cables while the rest of the cables are wired together with each colored wire grouped with like colors. This is the first time I am attempting a project of this magnitude and I am wondering how, if at all, I can maybe wire the home for ethernet using the existing cabling.
I am assuming that I could simply disconnect the phone wiring from one room and wire that all into a single ethernet connection in the room which would result in that room losing phone service, however, how would I have any clue what I need to change in the basement? If it can even be done at all? I have no idea where that lone blue ethernet cable terminates since there are literally zero ethernet ports wired into the actual wall outlets nor do my parents know if one exists.
Has anyone ever seen a wiring job like this? Is it common? Why the hell does each room have 4 phone jacks? Any help would be appreciated on this.
I apologize for the coming lengthy post beforehand.
I was in the process of wiring my parents home for internet service. I have been over many time and noticed that in every room they had wall outlets with phone/internet/cable jacks. I took a trip into the basement to see what they had for wiring and they definitely had a ton of ethernet and coaxial cable run with connections terminating near their fuse panel but I couldnt see any phone line. However, upon closer inspection, all of the ports on the wall outlets are phone outlets and it looks as though all but one of the ethernet cables are being used to run the phone lines and not internet.
Basement Fuse Panel
Wall Outlet
Inner Wall Outlet. Here you can see a single ethernet cable wired into 4 phone outlets.
Ethernet Wiring Bundle
In the last photo, you can see the single blue ethernet cable (cable farthest right) not wired together with any of the other cables while the rest of the cables are wired together with each colored wire grouped with like colors. This is the first time I am attempting a project of this magnitude and I am wondering how, if at all, I can maybe wire the home for ethernet using the existing cabling.
I am assuming that I could simply disconnect the phone wiring from one room and wire that all into a single ethernet connection in the room which would result in that room losing phone service, however, how would I have any clue what I need to change in the basement? If it can even be done at all? I have no idea where that lone blue ethernet cable terminates since there are literally zero ethernet ports wired into the actual wall outlets nor do my parents know if one exists.
Has anyone ever seen a wiring job like this? Is it common? Why the hell does each room have 4 phone jacks? Any help would be appreciated on this.
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