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Ethernet over cat5e phone line not working

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so first off I wanna reassure you all that my phone line in my house is all ran by a cat5e cable.. So from that I bought the ethernet sockets and attached them to one cat5e connector(phone line) on one side of the house and another in my bedroom. From there I connected my bedroom one to my pc and the other side of the house one into my modem. But nothing is detected and computer says nothing is plugged in via ethernet. So what am I doing wrong here? I tested my ethernet cables and they work fine and from my modem fine but I need to know what Is the problem? 

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so first off I wanna reassure you all that my phone line in my house is all ran by a cat5e cable.. So from that I bought the ethernet sockets and attached them to one cat5e connector(phone line) on one side of the house and another in my bedroom. From there I connected my bedroom one to my pc and the other side of the house one into my modem. But nothing is detected and computer says nothing is plugged in via ethernet. So what am I doing wrong here? I tested my ethernet cables and they work fine and from my modem fine but I need to know what Is the problem? 

 

Most home's phone/CAT5e cable go into a patch panel you would need to disconnect it from the breakout panel for phone and instead take the line from the modem and the line from the bedroom and directly connect them together using a coupler to get a signal straight through,

 

As long as the cable itself was correctly wired and punched down or crimped on both ends it should work no problem.

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so first off I wanna reassure you all that my phone line in my house is all ran by a cat5e cable.. So from that I bought the ethernet sockets and attached them to one cat5e connector(phone line) on one side of the house and another in my bedroom. From there I connected my bedroom one to my pc and the other side of the house one into my modem. But nothing is detected and computer says nothing is plugged in via ethernet. So what am I doing wrong here? I tested my ethernet cables and they work fine and from my modem fine but I need to know what Is the problem? 

just sounds like a disconnect somewhere to me.

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Most home's phone/CAT5e cable go into a patch panel you would need to disconnect it from the breakout panel for phone and instead take the line from the modem and the line from the bedroom and directly connect them together using a coupler to get a signal straight through,

 

As long as the cable itself was correctly wired and punched down or crimped on both ends it should work no problem.

Well I see all over the internet of that panel being in the basement and well in florida we don't have any basements but there are a few boxes on the side of the house do you think perhaps it would be one of those?

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Well I see all over the internet of that panel being in the basement and well in florida we don't have any basements but there are a few boxes on the side of the house do you think perhaps it would be one of those?

 

I assume no basement, only a crawl space?

 

Check to see if you find a communications box it should be labeled, if you find it the lines are most likely in there and a simple coupler like this to connect the lines together is all that's needed if it already has the jacks on the connectors:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00A30FDS6?psc=1

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How did you test the cable? With a cabletester

 

There might be a break.

By phone socket I assume that you mean RJ45? 

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I assume no basement, only a crawl space?

 

Check to see if you find a communications box it should be labeled, if you find it the lines are most likely in there and a simple coupler like this to connect the lines together is all that's needed if it already has the jacks on the connectors:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00A30FDS6?psc=1

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Is this the patch panel? also all the wires are cat5e and the box is labeled phone connections. So any idea of what I can do to get the connections connected? like which wires to solder or attach to others. I'd like to only connect those two if possible but I have no idea which one they could be

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Is this the patch panel? also all the wires are cat5e and the box is labeled phone connections. So any idea of what I can do to get the connections connected? like which wires to solder or attach to others. I'd like to only connect those two if possible but I have no idea which one they could be

 

 

Yes that looks to be correct, are the cables individually labeled at all?

 

If not you would need to try and single out the wires going to the modem room and bedroom using an ethernet tester, there are punch down cable connectors since theses don't use the crimp connector.

 

http://www.amazon.com/kenable-Inline-Punch-Coupler-Cables/dp/B003OSLS4M/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1441494217&sr=8-1&

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Yes that looks to be correct, are the cables individually labeled at all?

 

If not you would need to try and single out the wires going to the modem room and bedroom using an ethernet tester, there are punch down cable connectors since theses don't use the crimp connector.

 

http://www.amazon.com/kenable-Inline-Punch-Coupler-Cables/dp/B003OSLS4M/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1441494217&sr=8-1&

As far as I can see there is no individually labeled wire

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As far as I can see there is no individually labeled wire

 

Ughhh that's a bit of a pain, yeah you'll probably have to use an ethernet tester to find the correct wires, wouldn't want to go disconnecting something that shouldn't be disconnected.

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