Ethernet connection

[Cowboyk56]

Hi, I posted this on general discussion at first and now posting here. I'm trying to get a wired connect from a modem upstairs while I'm on the bottom floor. House is wired for cat 5 and would like a more stable connection. There's wall ports on the top floor, by the modem, and down stairs by my pc. So I'm trying to plug into a panel like photo attached to a panel upstairs that looks just like it with a coaxial cable to the modem upstairs. The cables I'm working with work perfect and have been tested. So I'm asking if there's one port I have to plug into or if the wall port is busted, plus no matter what I do, in windows says ethernet needs to be plugged into while ethernet is connect. Pls help and would love any insight...

[mariushm]

There's ethernet cable going to each ethernet jack in your walls.  All these cables should be going somewhere in your house, in a centralized location, and should either be connected to a patch panel, or should have ethernet jacks already installed on the cable. You're supposed to connect those cables to a network switch or something, and then the network switch is connected to your modem / router / whatever.

The connectors under the ethernet jacks in your walls are most likely for CABLE TV, but also the other end of those coaxial cables must be connected to something. 

 

Your  modem that the ISP gives you receives internet through some cable (coaxial cable, fiber cable, special ethernet)  and the modem has one or more ethernet jacks on it, and maybe also acts as a wireless access point.  You would connect a cable from one ethernet jack in the back of your modem to the network switch or the jack in the patch panel for that room, for that particular ethernet jack.

[Cowboyk56]

Like this

[mariushm]

As the cables are there, it looks like they only connected two wires from each ethernet cable into the patch panels, treating those ethernet jacks as phone jacks (phone only needs two wires).

You will have to check behind the wall plates, because most likely those wall plates also have only 2 wires connected, making them unusable for ethernet.

 

For 100 mbps, only four wires are required, but for gigabit all 8 wires in the cable must be properly connected.

 

Here where the cables end, you would have to CUT the wires right there where the blue sleeve ends and then go through all the steps to install an ethernet jack at the end of each cable using a crimping tool - example: https://www.amazon.com/Professional-Through-Crimping-End-Pass-Through-Connectors/dp/B07T69GMCM/  -  or you would have to buy a proper ethernet patch panel - here's an example: https://www.amazon.com/Cable-Matters-12-Port-Vertical-Bracket/dp/B00UVQI8B6/ - and use a punch down tool - example: https://www.amazon.com/Cable-Matters-Punch-Down-Blade/dp/B0072K1QHM/ - to connect the wires from each cable to a jack in the patch panel. It's not hard, just match the colors on the back of the patch panel with the wires on the cable.

Then you'd use a bunch of short ethernet patch cables to connect the ethernet jacks in the patch panel to a network switch or your router (if it has enough ports)

 

Once this side is fixed, you would have to also fix the jacks in the walls, as each jack would probably have only the two wires connected.  Worst case scenario, you would have to change the wall plates with new ones because sometimes they're one time use (when you insert a wire using a punch down tool, it's not often easy to pull out the wire and punch down another wire, the connection is no longer reliable)

They make wall plates with ethernet connectors in which you can just plug an ethernet jack so you could basically use a crimping tool to crimp a connector to the end of the cable and then plug the connector into the wall plate - but you'll have to double check there's enough space inside the wall for it.

Here's a couple examples of such wall plates :

https://www.amazon.com/Ethernet-Wall-Plate-Keystone-Female/dp/B07TSJRYQS/

https://www.amazon.com/Sancable-Ethernet-Plate-Keystone-Female/dp/B07LGYFKYN/

 

Here's the version that requires using a punch down tool to connect wires to the jacks :

 

pack of 10 keystone connectors : https://www.amazon.com/10-Pack-Cat6-Keystone-Jack-Compatible/dp/B07JRD69V6/

empty walls plate in which you insert the keystone connectors : https://www.amazon.com/Listed-VCE-Keystone-Modular-Inserts/dp/B07JFWRSTY/

 

 

The good thing is the cables have Cat 5e written on them, so they'll be good for gigabit speeds

 

 

[Cowboyk56]

I'm wondering if id even be able to do this solution, because we are renting right now. even if I could would it be worth it, cause i get about 100 mbps down and 40 up. could there be another solution?