The rooms in my house are wired for ethernet. There's a junction box in the garage where all the ethernet wires meet. They are all terminated together on this punch down board. Is this board similar to a hub since all the wires are all joined together. How do I connect this so each room has internet access?
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How do I connect all the rooms for ethernet?
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that's a phone block...
you would have to completely pull those wires off those punches and punch it down to a patch panel or other sort of network punch down panel.... onQ makes some if you want to keep the same panel...
sttubs probably just confused by what appear to be network RJ45s in the bottom right hand corner... those are actually just for interfacing with RJ31x jacks for security systems/fire alarms... it's all phone stuff....
you need a patch panel
From the perspective of the switch looking onward to the plugs in each room
switch <---- cables from patch panel via rj45 connector <----- color colded loose ends punched down into color coded blocks using punch down tool from Home Depot or whereever < ---- wires run through walls into rooms <---- wires punched down into blocks in the wall plug in each room they are color coded too.
Tone and test and wallah! you are networked. Simple and shouldn't take a pro but 10 mins to do and a new person an hour or two.
On a side not I am buying a new house and close next week. There are no ethernet jacks ran anywhere. I am not going to run jacks. Im going to install 3 Ubiquiti pros and be done with it. Wireless is just fine for me.
From the perspective of the switch looking onward to the plugs in each room
switch <---- cables from patch panel via rj45 connector <----- color colded loose ends punched down into color coded blocks using punch down tool from Home Depot or whereever < ---- wires run through walls into rooms <---- wires punched down into blocks in the wall plug in each room they are color coded too.
Tone and test and wallah! you are networked. Simple and shouldn't take a pro but 10 mins to do and a new person an hour or two.
On a side not I am buying a new house and close next week. There are no ethernet jacks ran anywhere. I am not going to run jacks. Im going to install 3 Ubiquiti pros and be done with it. Wireless is just fine for me.
I used a monoprice patch panel to keep everything organized and it worked well. You really only need a patch panel if you have more rooms than there are ports on your router, and only want certain rooms active. If you have too many rooms you would need to add an ethernet switch.
I'm confused. If that's a phone block, then why are the ethernet ports in all the rooms in the house terminate to this phone block?
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When I built my house in 2000 they wired with Cat5 for phones. So in the next few months I plan to remove the phone block and rewire them into a patch panel, and use them as network jacks instead.
Eventually I plan to use the existing cable to pull new CAT6 through out the house.
Eventually I plan to use the existing cable to pull new CAT6 through out the house.
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Just so you know that electricians are required to staple down the wires, so you won't be able to use the existing to pull new in most cases.
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they'll still work fine for phones, a lot of people don't know you can plug an RJ9/11 into an RJ45, and most of the time it will be fine... not particularly good for the jack, depending on how it's constructed, but it oftentimes does work.... my point is, how do you know that they're supposed to be "ethernet" jacks and not just 8P8C phone jacks? to be sure, what makes an "ethernet jack" an "ethernet jack" is being punched down to a patch panel and being patched into an ethernet device (or straight-wired, whatever)
there are electricians, like in any profession, that don't really know what they're doing, and/or do what they can to make a buck/make a sale... maybe they didn't realize what that OnQ block was for and figured it was for network, or maybe they knew fully what they were doing, you never can tell
electrician's lack of data cabling knowledge is pretty common... especially with older guys who've been around for a while and aren't getting with the times... or just guys who specialize and get asked to do something they don't want to do, or don't know how to do... stuff happens all the time
but for all you know, the GC/landlord/real estate agent fed you a line about it being wired for ethernet... or you yourself were just mistaken by the RJ45 jacks in the walls..
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Most new houses run cat5e by default and only terminate a few pair for the phones. My house was like this. I cut the ends off and reterminated for RJ45 and have been cruising with gigabit since.
Good news is, if you arn't using it for phone or security, you can install a proper patch panel and switch, use the existing rj45 outlets and be done.
I'd recommend a keystone patch panel, as they are easier to terminate and work with.
Depends on the sparkies,the state and local building codes, and enforcement of them. Codes in this area, and enforcement are practically nil. No real way to know without giving the cable a good ol' yank.
Depends on the sparkie (and the age of the home). Good sparkies home run all low voltage cabling, bad sparkies don't. Old homes often have daisy-chained jacks as that was typical 20+ yrs ago, especially when the telephone company did all of the wiring work.
Alas, my 6 year old home was built with daisy chained jacks. Friend of mine and I ended up running ethernet through the house, as wifi signals have some wierd issues in it.Depends on the sparkies,the state and local building codes, and enforcement of them. Codes in this area, and enforcement are practically nil. No real way to know without giving the cable a good ol' yank.
Depends on the sparkie (and the age of the home). Good sparkies home run all low voltage cabling, bad sparkies don't. Old homes often have daisy-chained jacks as that was typical 20+ yrs ago, especially when the telephone company did all of the wiring work.