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In Reply to: RE: House IS wired for internet after all.... posted by AbeCollins on July 14, 2016 at 09:41:26
but there is Cat 5E cable behind each wall plate.
So perhaps I can figure out a way to get Gigabit to every room.
Would require them installing the modem in the basement (normally in the office) near where all of those lines terminate. There is a hole in the front wall of the garage that has the lines coming into the house and a box with all of the lines running to each room. Now they all have the same signal (phone) but of course I would want an gigabit switch there so that each room was connected to modem.
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> Would require them installing the modem in the basement (normally in the office) near
> where all of those lines terminate.
Normally that's how it would be done. But if the cable company line comes in upstairs and that's where the modem is, then you can also use an ethernet run down to the basement, where you would have your ethernet switch. If that upstairs room is wired for ethernet, you're good to go. However, if that room only has one ethernet run, it isn't ideal, as you lose that run for computers or other equipment. Best location for the modem is at the nexus of all those ethernet runs and next to your network switch.
Make sure you have someone terminate all that cabling correctly. Which means punching down the cabling to IDC (insulation displacement connector) keystone jacks in all the rooms. And at the other end in the basement, punching down the cables into a patch panel. Not crimping plugs onto the ends of the cables! Then, from your patch panel, you'll run (relatively) short patch cables to your network switch.
Also, you should consider getting a gigabit switch with enough ports to handle all of the ethernet runs in your house. It's not required to have every jack working, since many will be empty, but if you can afford it, does make life a little easier.
The SONIC Fiber modem is on a wall in the main floor garage where the fiber enters the house and where all of the (4 each) Cat 5E cables and (4 each) cable TV Coaxes come out of a hole in the garage wall. The Cat 5E cables used to be hooked up to the ATT phone box. They were used as phone lines and I did not know they were Cat-5E till the tech installing the Fiber mentioned it.
The SONIC Fiber modem that was installed this morning in the garage has TWO outputs, one is RJ45 for Gigabit Internet the second is a RJ-11 VOIP phone line. With the Gigabit Fiber install complete, two of the four Cat 5E cables are now in use, one is a phone run to the kitchen and the second is Gigabit Ethernet to the office where what used to be a RJ-11 phone jack has been replaced with a RJ-45 Ethernet jack which now is patched to the SONIC provided WiFi Router.
The plan is to relocate this WiFi Router to the downstairs garage next to the Sonic Fiber Mondem and use 3 of its 4 Ethernet outputs go to the (1) the office (where it will hook to the my Apple Airport/Wifi Router and then (2) to one of the currently unused Cat5E cables which runs to a phone jack in the loft near the equipment of my main listening area, then (3) to behind my easy chair in the living room.
The good news is I called SONIC Fiber and explained what I WISHED we had done during the install and they said "no problem, we'll send a tech out on Tuesday to terminated the two other Cat5E cables and the jack boxes and move the Router for you!
Lucky me.
My cable modem/router and switch are all down in the basement where all the cables converge. Makes it easy that way.
If you have at least two CAT5E jacks in a room, you can place the cable modem/router in that room, run the main CAT5E from the cable modem/router to the switch in another location, then come back out of the switch with all the other CAT5E connections including the 2nd one in the room where your cable modem/router resides.
As the fiber modem is already in the garage and that's were all of the Cat 5E terminates, I can move the SONIC Wifi/Gigabit switch box(fiber company provides it) into the garage as it as a four outputs and I have only four rooms with phone jacks that are wired with Cat 5. I can use the outlet in the office to hook up the AirPort/Time Machine for all of the office stuff and then the important audio stuff can hook directly to the phone jacks which is now Hi Speed Ethernet.
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