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Hello,
I actually moved into my house two years ago. The house was built in 2014. I need help with the current wiring in my wire enclosure that's located in a closet. How would I be able to tell if the house is fully prewired with CAT 5e cables?
Two rooms currently have ethernet wall jacks and I can confirm they go to the wire enclosure in my closet. If the cables do run to the bedrooms how would I locate them in the walls?
Your pictures seem to only show Cable TV coax, and landline telephone wiring. Do you currently have Internet access ? If so, where is its modem and/or router ?
The 2 jacks you mention in the bedrooms, are they 6 pin or 8 pin ?
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Originally Posted by Sarge14
Yes, there are coax cables and CAT 5e cables. Is there any reason you think the cables on the left side are landline?
Because they connect to a module (the H616) meant to distribute 4 landlines to 6 telephones ( like in a small office) Just because the cables are Cat5e, does not mean they are wired and used exclusively for Ethernet. They can also be wired differently and used for phones.
I believe one CAT 5e cable comes from the telephone company and is hooked up to the patch panel. I do have internet access with Cox, I came here to ask a few questions before moving my router and modem into the enclosure, they are currently upstairs in a bedroom.
The two jacks in the bedrooms are definitely 8 pin.
At this point it is hard to guess where the other end of those 2 cables are.
BTW, what is the purpose of the black box with coax cables in the bottom of the enclosure, and the 2 spliced wires near it ?
You may need to contact the original installers to figure this all out
Would the telephone outlet box be located outside or are you referencing the enclosure I took a picture of? This does make sense, as I stuck a camera in one of the holes in the enclosure and saw a bunch of wiring, but all the cables seemed to go into the enclosure.
EDIT: I have a CAT 5e cable labeled "alarm", I use ADT for my security system. Does this have anything to do with them?
I'm talking about the outlets in the rooms you are wanting to wire for ethernet. Take the cover off the telephone outlet and see what's in there. If there are extra cat 5 cables then that's for ethernet connections.
I'm talking about the outlets in the rooms you are wanting to wire for ethernet. Take the cover off the telephone outlet and see what's in there. If there are extra cat 5 cables then that's for ethernet connections.
The only rooms that have ethernet jack wall plates are the two rooms, the rest of the rooms do not have any ethernet jack wall plate installed. Most of the rooms DO have coax wall plates, I took them apart to see if any CAT 5e cable was behind there, nothing was there expect for the coaxial cable.
First, as has been said but obviously missed, those CAT5 cables are being used as phone lines. Unless you want to disable your phones (and apparently alarm) system, those lines are not viable to use for Ethernet. The tricky part is that even if You don't want to use those lines for phone/alarm, will someone else in the future? Will they balk at buying if it's not fully functional when they look?
As for Finding the wires, there are devices (tone and probe) that Can work to do this. But I expect that you'll have phone jacks around the house that are pre-wired with those CAT5 cables, pull those plates off and check/verify.
First, as has been said but obviously missed, those CAT5 cables are being used as phone lines. Unless you want to disable your phones (and apparently alarm) system, those lines are not viable to use for Ethernet. The tricky part is that even if You don't want to use those lines for phone/alarm, will someone else in the future? Will they balk at buying if it's not fully functional when they look?
As for Finding the wires, there are devices (tone and probe) that Can work to do this. But I expect that you'll have phone jacks around the house that are pre-wired with those CAT5 cables, pull those plates off and check/verify.
I don't have any phone jacks in the house, only Cat 5e wall plates. The telephone patch panel you see in there was used for CenturyLink (DSL) I believe.
I will look into the tone and probe tool, thank you all for the replies. I appreciate it!
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