I must apologize in advance, I do not know a whole lot of technical terms in networking.
Our house is prewired (or at least I think it is) with data connections to the patch box, but the unfortunate part is, there's nothing plugged into it. We have our data cable running straight from outside to the front room, which we manually made a port for since there wasn't one already. It plugs directly into our Arris Touchstone router or whatever, and from there, one connection goes directly to a desktop PC, and another connection goes to our Linksys E900 Wireless router. Neither of them are really in a good spot, especially the wireless since I'm on the other side of the house and losing connection on a lot of Skype calls, and online gaming is nearly impossible.
I don't have a lot of say in the network setup considering my parents like it the way it is, as well as the fact that I have little experience in this area of the technology world. One of the options I've considered is running an ethernet cord from a port on the router and running it to the patch panel, but that's where I'm running into difficulties. Now that I'm thinking about it, we have ethernet ports throughout the house, and I just checked mine to see if there was anything actually connected in the back (and it is), but I don't think the actual patch box has anything connected to it. In all of my dealings with ethernet cords, they've been blue. But the patch panel in the basement has all of the blue cables running to the telephone switch, and a majority of the white cables (all except for 2) are actually wired in. This is what it looks like below.
My overall question is, what are the ethernet port looking connectors in the image for? would it be possible to run an ethernet cord down to the patch panel into one of those sockets and the pre-wired cable wired up, and ta-da? Better, faster internet?
If it helps, the model of the image is SDM8D.
Thank you for your help!
Our house is prewired (or at least I think it is) with data connections to the patch box, but the unfortunate part is, there's nothing plugged into it. We have our data cable running straight from outside to the front room, which we manually made a port for since there wasn't one already. It plugs directly into our Arris Touchstone router or whatever, and from there, one connection goes directly to a desktop PC, and another connection goes to our Linksys E900 Wireless router. Neither of them are really in a good spot, especially the wireless since I'm on the other side of the house and losing connection on a lot of Skype calls, and online gaming is nearly impossible.
I don't have a lot of say in the network setup considering my parents like it the way it is, as well as the fact that I have little experience in this area of the technology world. One of the options I've considered is running an ethernet cord from a port on the router and running it to the patch panel, but that's where I'm running into difficulties. Now that I'm thinking about it, we have ethernet ports throughout the house, and I just checked mine to see if there was anything actually connected in the back (and it is), but I don't think the actual patch box has anything connected to it. In all of my dealings with ethernet cords, they've been blue. But the patch panel in the basement has all of the blue cables running to the telephone switch, and a majority of the white cables (all except for 2) are actually wired in. This is what it looks like below.
My overall question is, what are the ethernet port looking connectors in the image for? would it be possible to run an ethernet cord down to the patch panel into one of those sockets and the pre-wired cable wired up, and ta-da? Better, faster internet?
If it helps, the model of the image is SDM8D.
Thank you for your help!
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