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The AVS forum has been around for at least 16 years, and has excellent advice.
Short answer, if you don't want to look at the link, is that you need to plug the cat5 cables you want to use for ethernet into a switch (or a router if you expect a lot of traffic like multiple video streams), then plug the switch into your modem.
@reed303 The cables are labelled; I'm just not sure if they're labelled correctly. The switch I order will get here today, so I'm going to see if it will solve my problem.
@sj08054 I was expecting the house to be pre-wired with the correct cables so that I can just plug the cables into my modem/router/switch so that each room will get data...not every home buyer are tech savvy enough to know how to get these things to work. Just thought this would be simpler than it is... :/
I think everything on the surface is what we paid for; what I'm skeptical of is what is in the walls...
@bigbear99 I saw that post too...but got lost in the back and forth posts. Too tired from dealing with all the other structural/cosmetic issues with the "new" house -_-
The Legrand telephone module description doesn't sound like it is wired for data 10-WAY RJ45 TELEPHONE MODULE WITH RJ31X TM1045 | On-Q This telephone module distributes up to 4 incoming telephone lines (RJ45) to 10 locations.
It sounds like you want something like this device
12-PORT CAT 5E NETWORK INTERFACE MODULE AC1014 | On-Q
FEATURES & BENEFITS
Easily switch an outlet from Voice to Data or from Data to Voice with this Cat 5e Network Interface Module. 12-Port Cat 5e Network Interface Module - AC1014 | Legrand
My modem has a CAT5E cable that runs into the input of my router. The router has four output ports which run separate CAT5E cables to four rooms. In one of the rooms I have a powered switch which lets me run two devices in that room and run another wire to a fifth room.
It seems to me that a telephone switch is an entirely different animal. Each pair of wires is connected to the same pair of wires in all rooms. In addition there is no power involved. I fail to see how you can operate data devices with such a switch.
I think your telephone module does exactly what it is designed to do, which is to "distribute up to 4 incoming telephone lines (RJ45) to 10 locations".
I don't see any problems with your wires. You don't have to replace or augment them. But you can't connect them to a telephone module.
I am assuming that you don't need a telephone system in your home. Most people rely on cell phones today. If you do need telephone wiring you will have to do something different. There are multiple choices.
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It seems to me that a telephone switch is an entirely different animal. Each pair of wires is connected to the same pair of wires in all rooms. In addition there is no power involved. I fail to see how you can operate data devices with such a switch.
This has already been answered, if you had taken the time to read earlier posts. But no, you waste our time with old news.
In the OP's picture, the grey wire that runs behind the router looks smaller than the white house wire. Which is why I asked.
The other thing the iBread needs to be concerned with is the wall jacks. If the inwall wires are connected to the wall jack via screws, then it is a phone plate and will have to be replaced with a keystone.
Right now, the modem is activated. In the photo, I have a cable connecting the router to the modem, the switch plugged into the router, and the cables to four Cat5e+ outlets (all in different rooms) plugged into the switch.
Hypothetically, the data should be travelling from the modem to router to switch and then to each of the rooms that has its cable connected to the switch.
None of the other cable outlets are lighting up on the switch besides for the one connecting the router to the switch...
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