Struggling to extend cable internet to additional areas?
Struggling to extend cable internet to additional areas?
Hey everyone For now I've been just leaving my router beside my computer, but I wanted to build a NAS and leave it in another room, and for that I'll need to figure a way to bring some ethernet cables there. I do have some ethernet sockets near my house entrance and I never bother looking into it that much, but it looks like they could transport ethernet to other rooms as they have three sockets there (numbered from 1 to 3), and then on three rooms I also have one of those sockets, with the corresponding label. My initial instinct would be to connect my router there, put one ethernet cable through each socket and leave the router there, and then from each room I just bring ethernet from the socket, but the problem is, my modem gets internet from those tv cables (from what I could check, their name is CATV), but where I have those three ethernet sockets I have no CATV socket. I can only find those on each of the other rooms, so I'm not sure if thats completely unrelated, or if I'm just missing something Below I'll post some photos to make it clearer to understand: 1) The wall where I have the three internet sockets, where I thought I could put my modem to get internet on the other rooms 2) One of the other ends of the ethernet socket, where I do have the CATV (and where I'm leaving my modem for now). Ignore the yellow ethernet cable there, I was doing some tests Does anyone know what are those for? I know depending on the region some internet stuff can vary a bit, so if it helps this is a German house
my home came equipped with those ports in every room, all linked in the basement. they were meant for phones—maybe for a reason—and I just updated the wiring in the connector to support T586A so my computer network could communicate. to check if it’s set up for computers, you can likely connect an Ethernet cable from your gateway to [3] and see if another device in the adjacent room (with ports 1-3) can access the internet. if it works, you can then test by connecting another cable from [3] to [1] or vice versa. (if you don’t have a tester handy). Relocating your modem probably isn’t worth it unless you’re planning to do some DIY drywall work for new coax. but someone might have a better idea.
Wow, it's really straightforward. I wasn't sure I could link them in reverse, but connecting them that way was perfect. Thanks!
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It might be possible to add a toggle that lets you connect ports 1, 2, and 3 together. You could simply connect all three to the switch.