Any way to use built-in Ethernet ports as simple extensions?

Pwalex

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I live in a condo where each room has a cable/ethernet port. Safe to assume this is for outside connections to be installed. However, I am wondering if there is any chance that the ports could be connected to one another to act as a simple extender cable. I just tried to simply plug an output from my router into one of these ports, and then use a cable from a port in a different room to a computer and that did nothing. I assume this is just bust at this point, but I wanted to check and see if there was a chance for this to work somehow. A patch I can make in a comm box or something?

I know this is a long-shot, but I want to exhaust all options before I look into investing in anything.

Thanks!
 
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Thank you for your answer. I was actually able to solve this in the meantime!

There is a panel in my apartment that houses the telcomm stuff, which I opened to take a look at. Turns out they made it very easy! There were ethernet cables dangling in there that correspond to the ports in each room. It was a simple matter of taking a female-female ethernet adaptor and connecting two of them together. Totally worked!

USAFRet

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For an install like that, nothing is "safe to assume".

Where do all those wall ports connect to? A switch or patch panel that you control? Or something in the building that you do not control?

Until you know where everything goes, there is no way to determine how to connect or extend things.
 

Pwalex

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Thank you for your answer. I was actually able to solve this in the meantime!

There is a panel in my apartment that houses the telcomm stuff, which I opened to take a look at. Turns out they made it very easy! There were ethernet cables dangling in there that correspond to the ports in each room. It was a simple matter of taking a female-female ethernet adaptor and connecting two of them together. Totally worked!
 
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