How do I make my home ethernet ports active

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I live in a house with ethernet ports in each room. I am trying to figure out how to make them active so I can use them. I found a teleco board where all of the Cat5 cables are centralized. This board is a GE CC-TP0110. I am scratching my head for how to make them work though and here is why....

I am assuming somehow I need to make this panel "live" and connect my router and/or modem to it. I have xfinity cable modem that connects via a phone line/cable line. I dont see how i could hook that up in this box?

Also, the box does not have a power supply near it so that would make it more challenging to plug in a router or modem by it.

Here are a few pictures of what I am talking about:

http://imgur.com/Z6a7I0K

http://imgur.com/U6agc1I
 
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Note that most PoE switches give out power; you'll have to look pretty hard to find one that's powered by PoE. Just be careful.

Cheapest gigabit switch with enough ports, and whatever brand Cat5e patch panel you can find. Not super important; I doubt you're pushing the edge of the specs.

You'd connect a LAN port on your router to the wall, and all the wall ports through to the switch. Other option is to put the router by the switch, and cable directly from the router's LAN port to the switch - but if it's in your basement, you'll get poor WiFi coverage doing this.
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Do you have a recommendation on what patch panel/ethernet witch to use? Also, how do i make it live? Without power going to this, how do i connect my router to give it internet connection initially?
 
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To make this "live," you at least have to have an ethernet SWITCH at this location, which must be POWERED. If power here not possible/undesirable, option#2 is to use a switch with POE capability, the power then will come from a Room of your choice via one of the CAT cables, this room, will most likely serves as the modem-router room.

Before you get too excited, open one of the room's panel and verify you have 4 pairs of wires for ethernet to function.
 
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Note that most PoE switches give out power; you'll have to look pretty hard to find one that's powered by PoE. Just be careful.

Cheapest gigabit switch with enough ports, and whatever brand Cat5e patch panel you can find. Not super important; I doubt you're pushing the edge of the specs.

You'd connect a LAN port on your router to the wall, and all the wall ports through to the switch. Other option is to put the router by the switch, and cable directly from the router's LAN port to the switch - but if it's in your basement, you'll get poor WiFi coverage doing this.
 
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