You'll probably want a switch in the garage, unless activating only one of the other ports in the house will meet your actual need - that would cost the least.
#Earthnet internet service Patch#
If you have checked every jack you know of and cannot find one that works, note that at the patch panel and move on (there's either some you don't know, or wires are broken/damaged.) Presumably you can see the wire that leads to the roof and know you don't need to go up there with a computer to find it, and probably don't want to connect it at all. If there are jacks elsewhere than in the house, include those. Label it (preferable method is as above.).Go back in the house and plug a computer into wall jacks until youįind one (there should only be one) that now works.
Plug it into any other port in the garage patch panel.Now, plug another patch cable into the living room port (in the garage patch panel) leaving the living room port in the living room connected to the router. (preferably, label both ends - Living room outlet is labelled with port on the patch, patch panel is labeled living room. That port/cable leads to the living room.Take a computer to the garage and plug in a patch cable until youįind the one (there should only be one) port that works.Plug a patch from the Living room (LR) router into the LR wall port.It is at minimum irrelevant, or else it is doing something and you'll notice something like video cameras stop working and revise your assessment of your system wiring. It's just wasting power and doing nothing useful, and may be incompatible with whatever you do next. Step one - if the roof antenna is gone, and you are not otherwise using the existing cables, remove the power injector.
#Earthnet internet service how to#
Secondary question will be how to figure out which cable in this rat's nest goes where) But in browsing other help pages here and on the wider internet, it's hard to tell what exactly I am lacking.Īnd here is the patch panel (Yikes, I know. I am enough of an engineer to feel that simply plugging an ethernet cable into the router and the nearest wall outlet won't suddenly bring wired ethernet into all of the rooms of my house. All the rooms in the house have an ethernet outlet that I assume lead to the other wires in the patch panel.Ĭurrently, I get my internet from a cable port in my living room that connects directly into an Arris Surfboard cable modem / wifi router. There used to be an antenna mounted on my roof with a wire that enters my garage and connects to a "Power Injector" before joining a patch panel. I have not been using the ethernet at all, but recent needs for working at home have made me curious about what I could accomplish with somewhat minimal investment.Ī diagram of what I think is my wiring setup is provided below. A previous owner of my home (I don't know when) wired every room in the house with an ethernet port.
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