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Thank you for any help

Moved into a new house and hooked up all my TVs, wireless internet, music, etc throughout the house, but i just dont understand how to get the wired ethernet jacks working. Everything else i have gotten to work. Sorry its kind of a mess

Here are some pictures. Ive tried plugging a cord from the switch to everything i could think of in the patch panel/box whatever its called, but nothing i do seems to work. Any suggestions? Thank you

Heres pics of whatevers in the room

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Tried uploading pics to the servers. First it told me they were too big. Resized them and then it told me i didnt have enough points to upload them

Chris916
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Without seeing this setup, there's not much we can do except guess as to what you need to connect to make this work, and there are a couple things that I'm unsure of about your setup:

  • The relative location of the patch panel and your internet termination point/modem
  • How each port in the rooms are wired up since by the looks of the patch panel, they are sending a single 4-pair cable to each room and splitting it at the wall plate into 2x 2-pair connections.

With those out of the way, here's how I would troubleshoot this:

First off, I suggest picking up a cheap Network Cable Tester to verify continuity between the wall ports and the patch panel. This will make the following 100x easier to figure out.

Here is what I would do to get this to work:

  • For testing purposes, unplug anything you have already patched to isolate the patch panels
  • Start at the wall in a room you want internet access in
  • Plug a network device in that will automatically attempt to make a connection when it sensing a network (computer, NAS, etc)
  • Go to the patch panel and starting at 1, connect another Ethernet cable from the patch panel to your modem (or network switch)
  • Check if a connection is made on the switch by checking the activity LEDs:
    • YES! Label it, and move on to the next port/room
    • No?! Try the next port on the patch panel

It might take a while, but you will have a much better idea of how your network has been installed by doing it this way.

Michael Frank
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You could build yourself a loopback with either a crimp tool or keystone jack and jumper and plug it into a jack in the house. You then plug a powered switch into each port until you find one that lights up the switch port. Repeat until you know where most ports go. Some jacks may be wired for phone or DSL so not all are necessarily working for ethernet.

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