Trying to get in-home On-Q network to route...

I have this pre-installed in my new townhome:

http://homeowner.onqlegrand.com/products/1267062-01-V1

Its routing four ethernet RJ45 cables to three bedrooms and one kitchen. I removed the spliced 'LINE IN' that was going to a jack in the living room, and I spliced in my own RJ45 cable so that I can connect my CABLE router to it and get a signal to all my rooms.

Problem is, no computer is picking up a signal in the rooms. Can I not go from modem to this switch? Do i need a router in between, special settings, etc?

I have available: Linksys SRX400 wireless, WRT54G wireless, Linksys gigabit 5-port, cable modem.

This is my very uneducated guess on this, but I'm going to assume that (since it is a "phone module" that they're using CAT5 for phone lines, to cut cost. So if you're trying to use this as an ethernet switch, you're out of luck....

Once again I may be wrong and I'm sure the vets on the forum will let me know of suck

If they wired it for 2 lines then it can be used for 10/100 ethernet which requires 2 of the 4 pairs of CAT-5. It can not be used for gigabit, which requires all 4 pairs.

It may be wired for 1 line only, it may not have enough bandwidth or the wires might not be wired correctly. You can try a crossover cable on one of them to see if that helps or you can try putting an Auto-MDI/X switch (a switch that automatically detects when crossover is needed) between the router and the module.

This is the switch I have to put between the modem/wall switch:

http://www.amazon.com/Linksys-EG005W-Gigabit-5-Port-Workgroup/dp/B00009KIYL

The cables being used are all BRN/WHTBRN, ORG/WHTORG, GREN/WHTGRN, BLU/WHTBLU. So they all match up....

What does '2 of the 4 pairs' mean? so I need to criss-cross some of the lines? My LAN on my desktop is pciking up some of the IPV4 numbers, and says 'limited connectivity', but sometimes itll just drop it.

CAT-5 has 8 wires in 4 pairs. 10/100 LAN uses 4 of those wires, so 2 of the pairs.

Does it not work through the switch?

If your desktop is getting an intermittent connection, then I'd say that module is limiting your bandwidth. Try setting your desktop to use 10Mbps.

In windows network device 'status' it says '10mbps' connected, when it does....

Can i just splice ends onto these cables and use them as ethernet? or will they not work, they look the same as my cat5e i took apart...

Dillusion said:

I have this pre-installed in my new townhome:

http://homeowner.onqlegrand.com/products/1267062-01-V1

Its routing four ethernet RJ45 cables to three bedrooms and one kitchen. I removed the spliced 'LINE IN' that was going to a jack in the living room, and I spliced in my own RJ45 cable so that I can connect my CABLE router to it and get a signal to all my rooms.

Problem is, no computer is picking up a signal in the rooms. Can I not go from modem to this switch? Do i need a router in between, special settings, etc?

I have available: Linksys SRX400 wireless, WRT54G wireless, Linksys gigabit 5-port, cable modem.

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First off, this thing isn't a switch, it's a phone distribution panel. Phone wiring is done by connecting all the wires together. Network wiring is done by keeping all the lines separate and then connecting those lines with a switch. If you want to use your existing phone lines as network cable (since they are likely Cat-5e), you'll need something like this:
http://www.twacomm.com/catalog/model_363486-01.htm?sid=3561A8892233A879232894B43F863BD0

Either that, or you can pull the individual lines off the telephone block and connect the appropriate ends so that you can connect those lines directly to the switch. The above On-Q panel does the same thing, only it will be a bit cleaner.

good point Sir... D'oh.