- Jan 28, 2012
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Hello All,
This issue may not be for the faint-hearted.
I recently moved into a new home. The first thing I did was look how to wire my LAN.
I had an existing ring topography telephony run with Cat5e. So I figured I could hook RJ45 female jacks to the end of each line in each room because I did not need a telephone. This would leave me with 2 RJ45 jacks in each room with a telephone jack; One coming in, and the other leaving. For rooms I needed a LAN connection, I would use a switch. For rooms I did not need a connection, I simply connected the two jacks to continue the run.
Everything works perfect except for one strange run. I have one run that seems to go from my office then split to a bedroom and the living room. I have a network cable tester and it shows all pairs are connected correctly in all three places. I know this cannot be good as it must cause packets to collide.
When I hook up a pc to the connection, it will recognize that I plugged it in, but then it will close the connection.
Do you have any ideas on how to just kill one of the "splice" runs? I do not need it in the bedroom, but it would be nice in the living room. For a quick rundown of my environment:
- Internet comes into the office to the router to a switch.
- The switch has the: Internet In; Office PC; Out to bed 1; out to bed 2/living room (spliced connection)
- I have network connection in bed1 into a switch that has: In from office; Bed Pc: Out to Master Bed
- There is a patch connection in my pantry because there was a phone jack there for some reason. This connects Bed 1 and Master Bed through the pantry
- I have connection in Master Bed into a switch that has: In from bed1; MBed PC (This is the end of the run)
So, I believe my theory is correct, but there is something hiding in the wall that is screwing up the living room run. I do see that something was added "after-market" in the living room. That Cat5e wire is yellow where the rest of the house is blue. I am guessing that is where the hack took place.
I know this is clear as mud but in short I have a Cat5e that looks like a Y with connections in 3 rooms. How can I turn that Y into an I without ripping cables out of the wall? Any suggestions?
This issue may not be for the faint-hearted.
I recently moved into a new home. The first thing I did was look how to wire my LAN.
I had an existing ring topography telephony run with Cat5e. So I figured I could hook RJ45 female jacks to the end of each line in each room because I did not need a telephone. This would leave me with 2 RJ45 jacks in each room with a telephone jack; One coming in, and the other leaving. For rooms I needed a LAN connection, I would use a switch. For rooms I did not need a connection, I simply connected the two jacks to continue the run.
Everything works perfect except for one strange run. I have one run that seems to go from my office then split to a bedroom and the living room. I have a network cable tester and it shows all pairs are connected correctly in all three places. I know this cannot be good as it must cause packets to collide.
When I hook up a pc to the connection, it will recognize that I plugged it in, but then it will close the connection.
Do you have any ideas on how to just kill one of the "splice" runs? I do not need it in the bedroom, but it would be nice in the living room. For a quick rundown of my environment:
- Internet comes into the office to the router to a switch.
- The switch has the: Internet In; Office PC; Out to bed 1; out to bed 2/living room (spliced connection)
- I have network connection in bed1 into a switch that has: In from office; Bed Pc: Out to Master Bed
- There is a patch connection in my pantry because there was a phone jack there for some reason. This connects Bed 1 and Master Bed through the pantry
- I have connection in Master Bed into a switch that has: In from bed1; MBed PC (This is the end of the run)
So, I believe my theory is correct, but there is something hiding in the wall that is screwing up the living room run. I do see that something was added "after-market" in the living room. That Cat5e wire is yellow where the rest of the house is blue. I am guessing that is where the hack took place.
I know this is clear as mud but in short I have a Cat5e that looks like a Y with connections in 3 rooms. How can I turn that Y into an I without ripping cables out of the wall? Any suggestions?
. I also have wireless, but even 802.11n lacks the bandwidth for full hd video from the media server. Thanks though!
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