Ethernet LAN home setup..what am I doing wrong?

Hello,



My new apartment appears to be hardwired for cat5 as there are cat5 jacks in every room [see image 1]. I am trying to take advantage of this and hardwire my PC in my room to the internet via the cat5 port (for faster xfer speeds and stability). I have Verizon Fios, which was set up on coax originally. I recently called Verizon to have an NT switch my data connection on my ONT from coax to ethernet.



My current setup:

My ONT was switched from coax to ethernet successfully, so I have connected the Ethernet port on the ONT to the WAN port on my Verizon Actionec router. This connection works, and I am able to connect to the internet wirelessly via the wireless router. [see image 2,3 yellow cable]





Above the ONT is a separate box where the phone line cables and data cables from every room converge. The phone line cables are hooked up to a plate on the wall, and the data cables were left tied up and bare (no plugs on the end), with labels for first bedroom, second bedroom, etc. I assume these are hooked up to the cat5 jacks on the walls in the bedroom. [see image 4]



The actiontec router has 4 ports for LAN. I assumed that if I were to crimp modular plugs to the bare data cables and plug them into the LAN ports on the router that I could connect all of them to the internet.

Well, I tried crimping several of the data cables and plugging them in to the LAN ports on the router. When I plugged them in, nothing happened (light on router did not turn green, and there was no internet connectivity). What am I doing wrong? Shouldn't this work in theory? I'd really like to use the wall jacks if I can (ideally I could even plug my bluray player into the wall so that I could watch netflix). Any help is appreciated!!!!