Ethernet Still Not Working

[byalexandr]

I'm home for the week since it's Thanksgiving Break, so I brought my PC with me. My router is downstairs, and I have it hooked up to the CAT5e that my entire house is wired with. From there it goes to a patch panel upstairs, and then to the room that I want the ethernet at.

 

In the room I'm staying in, I happen to have a CAT5e telecom jack. No, it's not a phone jack, it's a full CAT5e jack. So what I did was hook the router downstairs and the wall jack in the room (I did this at the patch panel), but it didn't work. I looked at the wiring of the jacks, and I even remade all of the cables with the wiring in the correct pin out. However, still no Internet.

 

What am I doing wrong? I've had this work before, except I had it connected to an Ethernet jack that was actually labeled 'data' not telecom. Is there some step I'm missing? It looks like it should all work, none of the cables go to any phone system or anything.

[byalexandr]

I realize this may be a bit hard to understand, but in simple terms what I am doing is making a long ass Ethernet cable by connecting several together, with most of the wires being in the walls as my house came with CAT5e installed. I know this only puts networking in one room and I should get a network switch, but I'm too lazy to wire up every room with networking when I only need it for my desktop (everyone else uses Wi-Fi).

[2FA]

Is it safe to assume the jack is either 568a or b?

[W-L]

5 minutes ago, byalexandr said:

I realize this may be a bit hard to understand, but in simple terms what I am doing is making a long ass Ethernet cable by connecting several together, with most of the wires being in the walls as my house came with CAT5e installed. I know this only puts networking in one room and I should get a network switch, but I'm too lazy to wire up every room with networking when I only need it for my desktop (everyone else uses Wi-Fi).

Take off the wallplate and make sure all the wires are connected even though it's CAT 5e, some I've seen will not hook all the wires up necessary for ethernet data only comms. 

[byalexandr]

2 hours ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

Is it safe to assume the jack is either 568a or b?

It can be both. I literally wired it by each wire, I used this diagram:

 

2 hours ago, W-L said:

Take off the wallplate and make sure all the wires are connected even though it's CAT 5e, some I've seen will not hook all the wires up necessary for ethernet data only comms. 

I did, I connected each and every wire myself. Perhaps I'm not wiring it right?

[W-L]

35 minutes ago, byalexandr said:

It can be both. I literally wired it by each wire, I used this diagram:

I did, I connected each and every wire myself. Perhaps I'm not wiring it right?

As long as both ends match the same pattern it'll work, if you have an ethernet tester you can check to see if it's a wiring issue or potentially something up within the walls themselves. 

[Donut417]

4 hours ago, byalexandr said:

t I am doing is making a long ass Ethernet cable

What do you mean by long? Greater than 328 Feet (100 meters)?  

[byalexandr]

1 hour ago, W-L said:

As long as both ends match the same pattern it'll work, if you have an ethernet tester you can check to see if it's a wiring issue or potentially something up within the walls themselves. 

I have a tool to trace wires to see where they go but I don’t know if it will help in this situation as the wires are already close together (in the same cable). I think I will rewire it once more just to make sure it’s not that, and also check that nothing is processing or changing the signal in between the router and my PC. Like I said there is a patch panel so a lot of stuff is going on in there and maybe I missed something.

 

3 minutes ago, Donut417 said:

What do you mean by long? Greater than 328 Feet (100 meters)?  

Definitely not that long, but it does go all the way upstairs to the patch panel and then all the way across the house to the PC so maybe like 150-200 feet at most.

[Donut417]

9 hours ago, byalexandr said:

Definitely not that long, but it does go all the way upstairs to the patch panel and then all the way across the house to the PC so maybe like 150-200 feet at most.

Then Id start looking at the ways the ends are connected. See what standard was used and make sure your patch cable at each end follows the same standard. Because the cable is still good length wise. 

[byalexandr]

So after verifying that each physical cable in this chain are not crossing over standards from end to end, I still have no network. All of the cables are mostly T568A, with the cord running from the router to the wall plug and the cord running from the wall plug in my room to my PC being T568B.

 

I read that it does not matter what standard is on which cable as long as each end is the same. But no Internet!! ?

 

At this point I’m thinking a USB wireless adapter is in order. Tired of trying to sort this out. I think one of three things might be happening (or a combination of the three):

 

-The chain of network cables are too long and the signal is unable to reach my PC.

-Somewhere in the walls of this house one of the cables are torn or broken and it’s cutting the signal.

-The jacks I ‘reused’ when I was wiring are not reusable or one of them is has a broken trace.

 

Time to go to Walmart....