Hello, We had a house built and an electrician came in and installed cat 5 wiring for our network...but only in one room...so i decided to get a wireless router because i did not know why he only put ehternet jacks in one room when i wanted them in 2 rooms...but anyways i will be moving in a new bedroom in my basement right below the computer thats has the wireless router hooked up to it...i know that i can use the wireless router for wired connection also and just turn off the wireless feature but i was wondering if he tracks the wires from the computer upstairs and connects them to an ethernet jack in the basement...would i be able to connect to the internet? if this is somewhat confusing i am very sorry but i need to know this information as soon as possible. Thanks in advance.
Matt
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yes he did put cat5e in for phone and ethernet...and i do have a phone jack in each room except my basement bedroom because he did not wire that up yet for phone or cable or anything and i would like to go without buying anyything else to wire up my computers for the internet (i already have the cat 5 network cable to connect from the back of the computer to the ethernet wall jack)
Matt
Dell Dimension 4600c Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.8GHz Intel 82865G Graphics Controller Broadcom 440x 10/100 Integrated Controller 512 MB Linksys Wireless-G Network Adapter 15" flat panel monitor
Dell DJ 20 Gen. 2 Inline FM Tuner Black Action Jacket Dock/Cradle
Do you phone connection(jack) in every room? Nowaday they use cat 5 for phone too. Chances are the electrician probably use cat 5e for your phone. If he did, you are still in business. You can verify that.
What I am trying to say is that if the electrician uses cat 5e cable for telephone, you can potentially have ethernet connections in any room where there is phone jack with slight modification. I can help if you live in madison, Wisconsin.
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Posted January 11th, 2005 21:00
Dell Dimension 4600c
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.8GHz
Intel 82865G Graphics Controller
Broadcom 440x 10/100 Integrated Controller
512 MB
Linksys Wireless-G Network Adapter
15" flat panel monitor
Dell DJ 20 Gen. 2
Inline FM Tuner
Black Action Jacket
Dock/Cradle
Message Edited by mtpg13 on 01-11-2005 05:55 PM