Thank you Scottie. When I bought my first house I had grand plans to put ethernet sockets in every room in the house. I bought a huge reel of network cable for the job. Then I tried to wire my own network plugs using the usual tools and found it to be impossible! It just WAY too difficult to get every single wire to connect properly. My tester would show I had got six or seven good connections. Most of the time was 4 or 5. Was so frustrating that I gave up in the end and just ran a pre-built cable from my router up the wall, through the floor straight into a switch in the office room and connect my devices to that. Not ideal but it works.
khemikora
Good morning Cletus and Scottie! Time to get the coffee🖖🏻
andrew
Hello Scottie and Cletus. Great video, as always. My house was built in 1889, just one cable in my study/library. But it turned out to be easy because I only need the cable in two rooms.
JacquelineMcIntoshNo
Thanx Scottie, that's clear as mud. That's why in this times I have a coffee and rum in the morning and coffee is optional!!!
LaterIamLate
Wow this was super helpful. I was struggling to figure out this wiring in a rental. Love all the diagrams.
JonathanYeong
Thanks. Watching these to help me move from WiFi to cabled. Keep it going!
thestoicsteve
When we built our house 20 years ago we had an OnQ panel put in. They brought in the blue hose (2 Cat5e, 2 RG6 Coax). One Cat5e was for phone jacks, one Cat5e for the network. The 2 Coax were for video (black for TV, White for either cameras our video chaining to other TVs). The one Cat5e goes into my Phone Switch, and the other goes into the network patch panel.
My question is, is that patch panel actually needed?
I discovered one port on my Patch Panel is toast (and it happens to be for my main office), and I've looked at getting a new patch panel (Cat6) from Legrand. It's relatively inexpensive at $40USD, but I'm wondering why I would even bother. Why not crimp RJ45 connectors onto the cable and send it directly into the network switch, thus removing a connection point as well as a failure point. I have the tools/parts/cable to make custom cables anyway, but I'm wondering what good that patch panel actually is. Why not just have all those terminated into RJ45 connector and bundled into the panel, then you can mount a switch in the panel and move on.
if I'm just going from the patch panel to a Network Switch, it means making up 8 more custom cables (because they will be all of about 100cm long. I just find the patch panel kind of a waste, but I'm wondering if it is actually "needed". It's great if I want all my switches/modems/routers in a different location (currently required), but it seems to be a pretty big mess. :( I don't like "messes" in my wiring...
WreckDiver
so i did some investigating in my new house and all my cat5e cables lead to a panel on the side of house and they are labeled but have no connectors on the ends, also there is no power outlet where the cables are bundled at to power a switch so I'm confused to get them working for internet 🤔
joeymesa
If you need wifi (most of the time we don't) you can also check out JRS eco routers which have a 10% pulse ratio on cheaper models compared to normal routers with no decrease in performance, or no pulsing AT ALL with higher end models when configured correctly. Essentially it will turn off wifi when you aren't using it, but admittedly you do need some IT and networking knowledge to set them up.
bryceboyer
please explain the "cloud creature" at the upper left hand side of the graphic....in the sky
MikeG-jsjt
Thank you for your videos! I have cat5 wall jacks (ethernet cables do not plug into them) and a patch panel where all my cable and phone comes in and there are 2 WAN ports (house was built 20 years ago). Can I make use of those WAN ports at all? Also I have internet through my cable company. Is it possible to plug in two modems/routers in different parts of the house?
midlife_minimalist
Good series! I'd reccomend this to my English-speaking friends. :)
CJWarlock
Could I connect another wifi router or a range extender to an ethernet switch out in my garage? Its just out of my wifi router range from the house.
joecosier
Could you please help me on my wiring? The WAN port on my FIOS router is connected to the wall jack on the first floor. I have another wall jack on the second floor but it’s not connected to anything. I wanted to put both wall jacks in use so I moved my router to the basement, disconnected the coupler (the cable from outside is directly connected to one of the Ethernet cables in the wall with a small coupler), and connected the cable from outside directly to the WAN port in my router. I was planning to connect the cables in my wall to the router but the router didn’t get any internet connection. Based on my understanding I was just changing from Cable1->Cable2->router to Cable1->router. I really don’t understand why it’s not working. Please help. Thanks!
hzzhfud
Why do you need a patch panel ? I have my cables connected to the switch directly, and that switch is connected to the modem/router (in the Netherlands they don’t separate them)
joukenienhuis
I would personally keep the wifi around for mobile devices like phones and tablets. Can you use an ethernet dongle for those? Sure, but that seems pretty ridiculous and very impractical, phones and tablets were designed to be mobile. When you consider that you usually keep your phone on your person, it makes absolutely 0 sense to have it hardwired to the internet.
Vince-xroh
Why not use powerline internet? Plug one in the same socket from the router, connect the router to it and in the other room put a second in and on this the pc and so on 🤔
WaschyNumber
Is there a portable Ethernet for my old Samsung Galaxy Tab A tablet, it is tm 350.
Fromanotherearth
Is there any other way to use the phone lines to connect to router?
kaheka
Why do you need a patch panel in the first place? Why can't you just connect the Ethernet wire directly into the switch? What benefit does a patch panel provide over connecting directly into a switch?
