My parents asked me to look into a better home networking solution for them, because their current wireless setup is not cutting it. They want a wired solution and thought that it would require a lengthy installation and be very expensive. I was going to suggest powerline adapters, but on a hunch decided to see if their home was prewired (thier home is only a few years old).
So I went over to their house, and popped one of the phone jacks off the wall and sure enough their was a Cat5 cable staring me in the face.
I even found this box in their furnace room with a diagram showing what section corresponds to the jack in each room of the house.
So a year or two ago when their ISP installed their internet they simply drilled a hole in the wall and ran a cable to a router (not a very elegant solution).
So now my question, how would I go about 'plugging in' their current network solution to their pre wired solution? Also all the jacks in the home are phone jacks, would it be as simple as 'plugging in' their current network and then changing out the jacks? Or would this be something that they would need to contact their ISP about?
Thanks in advance guys!
So I went over to their house, and popped one of the phone jacks off the wall and sure enough their was a Cat5 cable staring me in the face.
I even found this box in their furnace room with a diagram showing what section corresponds to the jack in each room of the house.
So a year or two ago when their ISP installed their internet they simply drilled a hole in the wall and ran a cable to a router (not a very elegant solution).
So now my question, how would I go about 'plugging in' their current network solution to their pre wired solution? Also all the jacks in the home are phone jacks, would it be as simple as 'plugging in' their current network and then changing out the jacks? Or would this be something that they would need to contact their ISP about?
Thanks in advance guys!