- Aug 3, 2018
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Hello community,
I moved into a new home. The previous owner wired the entire house with CAT5, mainly (as he told me) to run an entire networked audio/visual system.
The previous owner wired the network with a patch bank. What I'm experiencing is general connectivity issues. As an example if I try to use my office computer the internet in my dining room doesn't connect. Its almost as if it has a very limited number of IP addresses to assign.
I've been a software guy for years (Oracle applications), however I'm not a network guy.
So my setup is as follows:
incoming service from WAVE Broadband connects to my Arris Modem (TM822).
Modem is connected to a TP LINK (TLSF1005d) Switch.
Switch is connected to 4 ports on my patch bank, which I figured out correlate to my Dining Room, my Living Room, and 2 in my office (by trial and error).
I'm not really sure how the patch bank is wired...didn't get that info from previous owner.
Maybe I need to understand how a patch bank works...but in the Dining room I would like to be able to plug in more than one connection, so I have another TP Link switch (Same as above) and I can never seem to get 2 ports to work at once....
Any insight is greatly appreciated. And I realize wireless would make this easy, but it's not an option for us.
Cheers,
k2
I moved into a new home. The previous owner wired the entire house with CAT5, mainly (as he told me) to run an entire networked audio/visual system.
The previous owner wired the network with a patch bank. What I'm experiencing is general connectivity issues. As an example if I try to use my office computer the internet in my dining room doesn't connect. Its almost as if it has a very limited number of IP addresses to assign.
I've been a software guy for years (Oracle applications), however I'm not a network guy.
So my setup is as follows:
incoming service from WAVE Broadband connects to my Arris Modem (TM822).
Modem is connected to a TP LINK (TLSF1005d) Switch.
Switch is connected to 4 ports on my patch bank, which I figured out correlate to my Dining Room, my Living Room, and 2 in my office (by trial and error).
I'm not really sure how the patch bank is wired...didn't get that info from previous owner.
Maybe I need to understand how a patch bank works...but in the Dining room I would like to be able to plug in more than one connection, so I have another TP Link switch (Same as above) and I can never seem to get 2 ports to work at once....
Any insight is greatly appreciated. And I realize wireless would make this easy, but it's not an option for us.
Cheers,
k2
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