backfeeding ethernet

[hellochicken]

I have been trying to make the ethernet wires that our house came with for a little bit now, The problem is the patch pannel is upstairs and the modem and router is upstairs, there is phone lines with blue cat 5 cables and the ethernet is with red cat5e cables I I tried to make the house live by backfeeding one of the rj45 ports on the wall from the router downstairs but this didnt work how could I fix this

[Nikolithebear]

So just to be clear, youre connecting your router/modem into the wall to have them talk to the rest of the houses network and its not working?

[hellochicken]

@Nikolithebear 

exactly the router is plugged into a wall jack which leads into a shared patch pannel and it doesent spread throughout the house

[brwainer]

Does the patch panel have individual ports for each room that is connected to it, or are all the wires attached to a board that basically combines all the blues together, all the blue-whites together, etc?

 

if it's the former, you just need a switch, with each port on the switch connected to each port on the patch panel. If it's the later, you're going to have to replace that with a true patch panel, or terminate the ends of all the lines individually. And then get a switch.

[Nikolithebear]

11 minutes ago, hellochicken said:

@Nikolithebear 

 

You can check the wiring on the the ethernet terminators.  Could be a different standard?  A or B etc.  we have ours running through 2 routers, a switch, then a patch panel.