So guys, i have this new home and in my room there is a ethernet socket on the wall. i tried connecting it to my laptop and another one as well and no luck. there is no connection. i tried different cables and i have tried connecting to the router directly and it works fine. If this helps, there are like 7-8 greyish cables sticking out from the wall at the main room (office) where my router is situated with home phones and faxes. so everything in the house links to that room. there are more sockets around the house as well which also dont work. so im thinking that the cables that are sticking out need to be connected to an adaptor of some sort then connected to my router. P.S. My Router has one open port left. WHat should i do. thanks
Ethernet not working
- Thread starter AliMickey
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Well, if you have a socket on any room and that socket is not connected to a cable that is in the end connected to the router.... how you expect it will work?
You are just conecting to a unconnected socket. You need connect all the sockets to the router, if they have a switch and only connect one cable to the router, or need to connect all the cables i dont known, but what it's sure is that to work the ethernet socket need to be connected to the router.
If you only have one port left what you need to do is connect that port to a switch that offer more ports and all the cables to that switch.
You are just conecting to a unconnected socket. You need connect all the sockets to the router, if they have a switch and only connect one cable to the router, or need to connect all the cables i dont known, but what it's sure is that to work the ethernet socket need to be connected to the router.
If you only have one port left what you need to do is connect that port to a switch that offer more ports and all the cables to that switch.
i got that, that im connecting to *nothing*. those cables sticking out dont have that thing at the end of them. so its not connectable to a port on the router. i was thinking that all those cables would somehow become one by using an adaptor, which that adaptor would have on output to the router .IS this possible?
It's not an adaptor, it's a hardware that allow you connect several ethernets to the same network.
You have two options a Switch or a Hub (lets said that the diference is that a Hub is just like conect all cables to the same one and a Switch is a piece or hardare that organize the trafic).
As that hardare is very cheap now, i would recomend a Switch, something lilke this one (it's just an example)
https://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-Gigabit-Ethernet-Desktop-TL-SG108/dp/B00A121WN6/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1475044379&sr=8-4&keywords=switch
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