Hello, so I just found out that my house was wired with Cat5e. However, only 4 of the 8 wires are wired to phone jacks (RJ11) around the house. Since we only use one of those phone jacks for the landline, I would like to wire certain other ethernet jacks (master bed, home theater, and bonus room for access point) to use for ethernet.
This image shows where all of the wires meet up. I am not sure what this is is called, so I will refer to it as the 'patch panel' for now. The first wire is the feed coming from outside, (marked with red tape) and the one with only one green and red wire is the phone coming from the modem. So, that leaves 9 wires to go to all of the phone jacks, and there is 3 others that are not hooked up to anything. (11 phone jacks/wires in total) I confirmed that there are 11 jacks by going around the house and counting each phone jack.
Here is my not-so-much of a problem:
Since I would like to wire ethernet jacks, I have no easy way of pinpointing where each jack is located. My way of thinking of doing it is taking all eight wires off of one of the terminals on the patch panel, wiring it into an RJ45 plug, and plugging it into an ethernet tester receiver. Then on the certain jack I want to find, I would put the sender right there. If I got no signal, I would cut the plug off, and wire it back into the patch panel. However, this would be a very time lengthy method, and I would like to know if there is any easier way of doing this.
Thank you in advance!
-Matt
This image shows where all of the wires meet up. I am not sure what this is is called, so I will refer to it as the 'patch panel' for now. The first wire is the feed coming from outside, (marked with red tape) and the one with only one green and red wire is the phone coming from the modem. So, that leaves 9 wires to go to all of the phone jacks, and there is 3 others that are not hooked up to anything. (11 phone jacks/wires in total) I confirmed that there are 11 jacks by going around the house and counting each phone jack.
Here is my not-so-much of a problem:
Since I would like to wire ethernet jacks, I have no easy way of pinpointing where each jack is located. My way of thinking of doing it is taking all eight wires off of one of the terminals on the patch panel, wiring it into an RJ45 plug, and plugging it into an ethernet tester receiver. Then on the certain jack I want to find, I would put the sender right there. If I got no signal, I would cut the plug off, and wire it back into the patch panel. However, this would be a very time lengthy method, and I would like to know if there is any easier way of doing this.
Thank you in advance!
-Matt
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