My apartment is pre-wired for internet, how do I set it up?

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jameaney

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Currently I have a router in the living room and an ethernet cable running from there across the floor into the bedroom, which seems stupid as my apartment is prewired with cat5e, 6 ports total, two in each of the 3 major rooms.

The leasing office said Comcast sets it up and Comcast says the leasing office sets it up, so that means I have to set it up, but I don't know how.

I'll include pictures of the main box please give me whatever help you can. All that I know is that the box at the bottom is for the apartment security system.
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I suspect you are going to be completely rewiring it since it looks like a telephone panel. Be sure the apartment does not care or make sure you can put it back. You will end up taking the wires completely out and connecting them to a new patch panel or putting rj45 ends on them.
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The blue line is the incoming phone/DSL service (if present). The remaining 7 grey lines go to the individual room jacks. You'll need to determine to which room each cable terminates. An ohmmeter can be used to figure this out.

If you have active DSL or telephone service, you'll want to be careful not to disrupt your service. Service is normally carried on the blue-white pair of wires.

A 100Mb network connection normally utilizes the orange-white and green-white pairs (blue and brown pairs unused). Those four wires for the cables you are using need to be connected together at the cable panel, meaning they need to be pulled from the panel connector.

At the jack end, connect the four wires to the RJ45 jack. The connections on the back of the jacks are usually color coded, and you may need a punch-down tool. Be sure to observe correct polarity. Don't assume the wires are already connected at the jack; pull the wall-plate off and check.
 
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I suspect you are going to be completely rewiring it since it looks like a telephone panel. Be sure the apartment does not care or make sure you can put it back. You will end up taking the wires completely out and connecting them to a new patch panel or putting rj45 ends on them.
 
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I was afraid you were going to say something like that, but what the leasing office doesn't know doesn't hurt. I'll just make sure its back to normal before I move out. It just makes me made because when we moved in they said that the apartment was wired for internet, not phone through ethernet. The jacks in the walls are already completely wired with all 8 connections so I just have to add rj45 connectors in the box and add a new patch panel, or would a switch work fine?

 
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You end up with a switch in the box one way or another generally. You could put rj45 ends on the cables and plug them directly into a switch or you can put in a small patch panel with rj45 keystones and then run cables between the switch and the patch panel. The advantage to the patch panel is you could switch it to phone real easy by taking a short cable from the punch down block and plug it into the patch panel. Of course the cheapest is to put rj45 ends on the cable and plug it directly into the switch. You want to get it right the first time you will eventually get the cables too short if you have to cut bad ends off multiple times.
 
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