I moved into a townhome that has cat5 ports in every room. The cables all meet at a box in the laundry room and are snapped into a patch panel (see pic). All 4 pairs are used so they could carry both data and phone (my assumption).
However, when I plug a cable into any of the jacks (in the rooms) using either a switch or a computer, no connection is detected. I have my router connected to a port in one room, and then connected a computer to a port in another room, and the computer says there is no ethernet detected.
My goal is to have a router in one room, connected to the ethernet tap, so that computers/devices in other rooms can hard wire to the Internet. Do I need to replace the patch panel with a switch? How can I debug this problem further? Thanks!
However, when I plug a cable into any of the jacks (in the rooms) using either a switch or a computer, no connection is detected. I have my router connected to a port in one room, and then connected a computer to a port in another room, and the computer says there is no ethernet detected.
My goal is to have a router in one room, connected to the ethernet tap, so that computers/devices in other rooms can hard wire to the Internet. Do I need to replace the patch panel with a switch? How can I debug this problem further? Thanks!