how to connect to apartments preexisting wired network

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acidraindrops48

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the panel in the master closet has a punch labeled "telecom in" on the side. then it has 10 punches in a row with the top labeled "IN" and the one below labeled as "OUT" which I believe applies to all the punches below that as they are not labeled but are punched with cat5e that runs to jacks in my walls that have ethernet ports on them except for one that has a phone jack.. I have 8 jacks throughout my house and one of them i think is going to the "IN" punch and the other 7 to the 7 that are punched below the "OUT" punches. problem is no matter where i move my modem too and plug it into the ethernet port on the wall I'm not making a wired network. do i need to put my router between the modem and, what i believe is the hub/panel in the closet in order for it make a network? I'm very confused and any help would be greatly appreciated
 
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You generally don't care which cable go to which room if you are going to connect them all. You can find out after by seeing which light goes on the router/switch when something is plugged into certain rooms.

If the second panel really is just a simple ethernet patch panel you can move the wires from the phone side to the data side. Just remember a ethernet patch panel is purely to put a jack on the end of the wire it does nothing else. If the panel appears to do more than that it likely is not a ethernet patch panel.


......it is not all that uncommon to use rj45 connections now days for phones. A rj11 phone plug matches exactly to the middle pairs on a rj45. It does not fit as tight as would be optimal but it works...
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That sounds like a telephone install. All it does is connect the in wire physically to all the out wires.

Ethernet does not work like that the connection between the jacks needs to be a switch. You will have to rewire it which may not be allowed in apartment.
 
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The photo did not post but each of those lines coming from rooms must be plugged into your router or a switch. It still sound like what you are talking about is phone equipment. The equipment in the panel would have to be powered for it even to have a chance of being data equipment. It is much more likely it is a simple patch panel used to connect the wires together which is how phones are done.

A data panel would have each wire terminate in a rj45 jack.
 
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It's makes sense that the left panel is a telephone panel. Does this mean who ever punched all the rj45 keystone Jacks in the wall outlets didn't really know what they were doing or what? Because I do believe it is a telephone panel but it is 8 wire punched into the panel and has rj45 ethernet ports in every room. The panel on the right has 4 out going ethernet ports I can patch into from my router. I think I need to take the cat5e from the telephone panel and punch it into the ethernet patch panel and then patch into it from my router/modem. Issue is I don't know which cable goes to each room and I really don't want to punch all those wires again lol.
 
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You generally don't care which cable go to which room if you are going to connect them all. You can find out after by seeing which light goes on the router/switch when something is plugged into certain rooms.

If the second panel really is just a simple ethernet patch panel you can move the wires from the phone side to the data side. Just remember a ethernet patch panel is purely to put a jack on the end of the wire it does nothing else. If the panel appears to do more than that it likely is not a ethernet patch panel.


......it is not all that uncommon to use rj45 connections now days for phones. A rj11 phone plug matches exactly to the middle pairs on a rj45. It does not fit as tight as would be optimal but it works so that is why they do it.
 
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