- Nov 22, 2012
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I have SBG 6580 modem (with inbuilt wireless router) combo setup in family room. I have bedroom on another floor with weak wireless signal. I have phone line cable setup in all rooms with 8 (orange, orange-white, green, green-white, brown, brown -white, blue, blue-white) wires inside the cable. I do not use the phone line at all, as I have cordless VOIP phone directly connected to router.
I decided to use the phone line for ethernet and bought couple of ethernet + phone wall sockets from homedepot (http://www.homedepot.com/p/GE-RJ-11-RJ-45-Phone-and-Network-Plastic-Wall-Plate-White-76536/202699218 ) .
I removed phone wire which was connected to telephone service provider making my home isolated for telephone connection. In my family room(near modem+router combo) and bedroom, I converted the phone wall sockets to ethernet+phone wall socket with phone socket unused and connected all phone cable 8 wires as per color codes described here - http://www.server-servers.com/technologytutorials/ge-ethernet-wall-plate-wiring-diagram/
After this, I connected an ethernet cable from my router to the GE - ethernet wall socket. In Bedroom, I connected an ethernet cable from the GE- ethernet wall socket to my macbook. Macbook took long time to show a network connection and when it showed , it was not a proper ip address(like 192.168.*.*) from router but an self assigned ip address (like 169.*.*).
I tested all 8 phone wires from the cable individually using a 9v battery in family room and an led light in bedroom and all wires glow led light properly. So there is no issue with phone wires.
Why this setup in not working for ethernet ? Any help , idea would be appreciated.
Note - telephone line was working properly before I converted to ethernet connection.
I decided to use the phone line for ethernet and bought couple of ethernet + phone wall sockets from homedepot (http://www.homedepot.com/p/GE-RJ-11-RJ-45-Phone-and-Network-Plastic-Wall-Plate-White-76536/202699218 ) .
I removed phone wire which was connected to telephone service provider making my home isolated for telephone connection. In my family room(near modem+router combo) and bedroom, I converted the phone wall sockets to ethernet+phone wall socket with phone socket unused and connected all phone cable 8 wires as per color codes described here - http://www.server-servers.com/technologytutorials/ge-ethernet-wall-plate-wiring-diagram/
After this, I connected an ethernet cable from my router to the GE - ethernet wall socket. In Bedroom, I connected an ethernet cable from the GE- ethernet wall socket to my macbook. Macbook took long time to show a network connection and when it showed , it was not a proper ip address(like 192.168.*.*) from router but an self assigned ip address (like 169.*.*).
I tested all 8 phone wires from the cable individually using a 9v battery in family room and an led light in bedroom and all wires glow led light properly. So there is no issue with phone wires.
Why this setup in not working for ethernet ? Any help , idea would be appreciated.
Note - telephone line was working properly before I converted to ethernet connection.
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