I'm moving to a house with CAT5 drops in every room. I saw in the garage a box with several cables, each labeled with a different room's name. How can I best take advantage of this? Do I need to get a special router to plug in each room's cable? Do I need a special adaptor to connect to the CAT5 in each room? Can I go ahead and order a normal DSL or cable ISP, or do I need special service. Sorry for being such a newb.
2006-09-19 16:38:27 · 5 answers · asked by YahooPete 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
You place your switch/router (and eventually DSL or cable modem) in the garage where all the CAT5 cables terminate. Then you simply connect the cable for any room you wish to make "live" to your switch in the garage. It's ultra reliable unlike wireless 802.11g, where going through walls/floors or interference from 2.4 ghz phones (or neighbors networks) can cause the signal to degrade or drop entirely. With CAT5 wired troughout the house, you have no interference issues, unless something chews the cable :)
You order normal DSL or cable service and connect their modem your router/switch instead of to a single computer- that provides internet access for every room which is wired to that device.
Tons of cable/DSL routers which sell for around $50 have a 4-port switch built in, so if you don't need more than 4 rooms connected, they will do the trick.
D-Link, Linksys and Netgear have routers with a built-in 8-port switch, so if you need to network more than 4 rooms, those are probably the way to go- they are under $100, so still not too expensive.
Here are a few of the 8-port variety you can check out:
2006-09-19 17:33:48 · answer #1 · answered by C-Man 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-17 07:39:07 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you'll need a hub, or better a switch, connect all those cables to the ports on the switch, a dsl connection will do!
2006-09-19 20:20:14 · answer #3 · answered by Francis o 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cool house.
you plug the router into 1 of the ports, and your machines into the others.
you put a hub/switch in the garage.
2006-09-19 16:42:31 · answer #4 · answered by jake cigar™ is retired 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hmmmmmm you need a good router that will let you hook up all those cat5es and that would be your best thing to do less of a pain
2006-09-19 17:16:37 · answer #5 · answered by dcoyne 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋