Home Ethernet Connection

[cold.nut]

A while back I had a electrician come in and setup all the phone lines and Ethernet lines through-out my newly finished basement. He got all the rooms phone and internet ports setup, and he got the phone actually working but he couldn't figure out how to cross the internet connection I have via all the Ethernet ports throughout the basement.

I use comcast with a modem and a router to spit the connection wireless to the home computer and wired to my computer currently.

Comcast Modem > Belkin Router > Wireless (Home PC) > Wired (My PC)

I am not too good with cabling etc.. so my question is... How do I set up the rest of my ethernet ports throughout the basement. They are already wired in the rooms, they just aren't getting connection yet.

Here are some pics of my setup | and don't worry, Imma be doing me some cable management etc.. this weekend :)

[thehacker010]

It is pretty late where I am, so I am sorry if I get this wrong. Basically, you have tons of newly installed ethernet cables that you want to plug into your router but the router can't handle all of them?
If you simply need more ports for all the cables, get a $50 24-port switch and attach that to your router. That should give you all the ports you need.
Comcast Modem -> Router -> Switch -> Wired Computers


*EDIT* I can't tell exactly what is going on in those pictures, but those black cables look like Coaxial not twisted pair.... If all of your ethernet jacks are using coaxial cabling, ignore everything I just said above. /sigh

If that is not the case, maybe someone else might want to know this.
If you ARE using coaxial cables to wire your network, it is treated very similarly to if you were using power-line. There has to be an adapter at the modem/router end of your network and then at each computer that you want to have connected to it. If you have multiple computers in the same room, you can always use a standard network switch so you don't have to use more than one coaxial adapter in the same room.


Modem/Router ---(Cat5e)--->Adapter A---(coaxial cable)-->into wall jack. Walljack---(coaxial cable)--->Adapter B---(cat5e)--->Computer or switch for multiple computers

I know people who love this setup as they already have their entire house wired for TV using coaxial cables. Instead of having to either go completely wireless or install new networking cables throughout their house, they can simply use the pre-existing coaxial.

[cold.nut]

How the electrician was setting it up was he was going to take a cat5e from the modem to the splitter (shown above) and that would split the connection to all the rooms, that didn't work though. We also tried splitting it via the router through the splitter.

So here is what we have tried so far and have had no luck with.

Modem > Splitter > Outlets = No Go for launch
Modem > Router > Splitter > Outlets = No Go for launch

Maybe this isn't the way to do it at all. All I am going for is a wired connection to everyone in the house, and that could happen if we could link the comcast cable internet via the splitter.

[Ben333]

If you have cat 5 for each room coming down near that splitter you have (and Ethernet cable has 8 wires) then the cables need crimp on RJ45 connectors if they don't already, and can not simply be spliced into each other but each need their own port on your router or on a switch if your router doesn't have enough ports. Maybe I'm missing something, but there is no point at all in running your Ethernet through a telephone style splitter. You can get a crimper and connectors at the home depot I think, probably lowes too.

[cold.nut]

I may just be over thinking it!

Thanks guys I appreciate it :beer: