New home need help with networking

[Bark252]

I purchased a new home that had pre wire for cat5. The wires all go to 110 punch down block. Where do I go from here to get connection to all the rooms? Thanks

https://imgur.com/a/zkkjs

 

[razel]

That says telephone and uses 4 wires like 2 line telephones. Could the Ethernet cables be elsewhere? If those are it I'd verify it by attaching female RJ45 and testing the connection in each room.

It is entirely possible that those are the Ethernet wires since they contain 8 wires, but only 4 are used. I'd really double check.

 

[Fardringle]

Yep, those are phone and TV (coax) cables. The patch panel not only says that it is for telephone at the bottom, but the top punch down pins also say they are for telephone out. IF the house is also wired for ethernet, those wires are located somewhere else.

That said, since the blue cables are CAT5e (I can see the print on one of them), you could remove the telephone patch panel, install an ethernet patch panel, rewire the wall ports at the other ends of the cables to RJ45 instead of RJ11, and connect the patch panel to an ethernet switch/router to provide network/Internet access to those ports.

 

[mxnerd]

I really don't understand why new home still install telephone plugs to each room instead network plugs using the same cat5e cables?

How many people still use wired phone lines at old house, let alone new homes?

Guess still required by law?

 

[ch33zw1z]

I really don't understand why new home still install telephone plugs to each room instead network plugs using the same cat5e cables?

How many people still use wired phone lines at old house, let alone new homes?

Guess still required by law?

Maybe someplaces, but I haven't heard of it. I think it's just less expensive for the phone guys to run it, or people simply don't know what theyre doing.

If they ran two pair to each jack, technically you can at least get 100mbps out of a drop, but wtf man

 

[dctech9]

Quite odd I haven't seen that in years!