How can I wire my CAT5 enabled house?

Question

We recently built a house, but we still haven't fully set up our internet/network. We have DSL from bellsouth, but the service only comes through one phone cord on the first floor of our house. We have a wireless router providing internet to all of our laptops, but thats about it. We have phone jacks labeled "CAT5e+" in every room. Also, there is a box in our basement that looks like this:

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t274/Jalinovi/IMG_0643.jpg

My question is: is there any way I could connect an ethernet/cat5 cable to the wall from the router on the 1st floor, and somehow reroute that to another room?? We have an xbox that we would like to connect up on the 3rd floor, so that is why I'm asking.

I hope this made sense, and thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You dont have to do the above suggestion, if you let your ISP into your ethernet box more then likely they will screw it up.

It sounds as if you have all your rooms connected via ethernet (Cat5), so just plug a cable from the routers ethernet port into one of the ethernet (Cat5) ports on your wall and you should beable to access the router from any ethernet wall port in your house.

Answer 2

Using patch CAT5 cables connect the router to a socket and then patch it's other end to another room. The sockets should be numbered to match the patch panel. The whole point is to be able to patch anything to anywhere. If the router has no spare ports, you need to add a switch. Then connect the switch to the router, and the other patch leads to the various points required.

Answer 3

first of all, the telco's responsibility ends at the network interface device (NID), which is the grey box mounted on the side of the house. this is what's called the demarcation point. the cable and telco's company responsibility ends there at the demarc, the inside wiring (IW) is the responsibility of the home owner. they will charge you out the ying yang to perform any work on the IW. I just started my own low voltage company and have been doing this stuff for over 20 years now.

since your house has structured wiring it probably has an alarm system, if not then skip this section. if it does then the way the telephone service is connected is a line is run from the NID to the Smart panel then to the alarm panel to a RJ31x jack. the RJ31x jack provides line seizure in a alarm event. it disconnects service to the phone jacks in the home so the alarm can dial out to the alarm service call center.

the best thing to do is to install a splitter at the NID. check the web page below and go to SPSDL0SR1
DSL Splitter Module:
http://www.hometech.com/techwire/demarc.html

this will split the Voice and Data signals so you don't have to install line filters on all the phones and generally provides for a higher quality of service. normally pair 1 (blue) and pair 2 (orange) are used for Line 1&2 for telco service. Data should be brought in on pair 3 or 4. check the web page below to see what standard was used to wire your house.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIA-568B

if you want just shoot me an email. and I can give you step by step how to complete the entire install for DSL and Wi-Fi and how to use any spare pairs for distributed audio in your home.

Answer 4

It's certainly possible - but I need to see more of that box in your basement.

It could be as easy as running a cable from the router into the left hand of those sockets on the lower panel in that photo.

Or it may be more complicated than that.

Answer 5

You need to tell your DSL provider to patch the DSL connection into your wiring closet. That way all your RJ-45 jacks will go live.