House is networked but not set up ~ help!

[Abooie]

I was lucky to move into a house 18 months ago with network points in all the rooms.
The problem is it's not been set up at all and the has only the bare minimum to allow a phone in a couple of the rooms.

Each room has a network point and there are a couple of network to phone adaptors that allow me to use a phone in one room and a Netgear Wireless Modem Router in another to give the house wireless adsl.

The boiler room down stairs has a small cabinet in it with all the wires from the house (labelled luckily) and I can see the few rooms that are wired correctly.

I want to enable the network so I can can have a hard connection upstairs for a den (have a 360) but I don't think I'm thinking it through properly.

There's no electric plug in the boiler room so putting my modem/router there is a no go.

Each room only has one network socket on the wall so if I use a phone adaptor to get the modem router to get the adsl connection how do I then feed this back into network? Is there some kind of splitter I can use?

Hope there's enough in here to make some sense to someone who could help!

 

[Sp00n]

are the wires loose in the basement or are they connected to a patch panel?

 

[Abooie]

are the wires loose in the basement or are they connected to a patch panel?

Loose though a couple are wired together (the 3 rooms that have a signal).

One of the plug in network to phone adaptors has krone written on it, does this help at all?

 

[Wicksta]

Install a plug socket in the boiler room?

 

[csmager]

Loose though a couple are wired together (the 3 rooms that have a signal)

How do you mean 'wired together'? What are these three rooms wired to?

You should end up with a bunch of cables from each of the network sockets. Professionally, these would put put into a patch panel and connected to a rack mounted switch, but you could just terminate the ends of all the cables with RJ45 plugs (or even sockets if you wanted) and connect each of these to a switch of some sort. If there's no power, you'll have to get some!

Then you could connect any ethernet device to any socket in the house and it could communicate with another.

Phone and ethernet down the same cable is possible if you limit yourself to 100Mbps, but I can't imagine it'd do much for your ADSL connection. Where's the phone master socket? If it's in the boiler room too, I'd put a simple router down there and a wireless access point somewhere else in the house if having wireless from there isn't any use.

 

[Abooie]

How do you mean 'wired together'? What are these three rooms wired to?

You should end up with a bunch of cables from each of the network sockets. Professionally, these would put put into a patch panel and connected to a rack mounted switch, but you could just terminate the ends of all the cables with RJ45 plugs (or even sockets if you wanted) and connect each of these to a switch of some sort. If there's no power, you'll have to get some!

Then you could connect any ethernet device to any socket in the house and it could communicate with another.

Phone and ethernet down the same cable is possible if you limit yourself to 100Mbps, but I can't imagine it'd do much for your ADSL connection. Where's the phone master socket? If it's in the boiler room too, I'd put a simple router down there and a wireless access point somewhere else in the house if having wireless from there isn't any use.

Thanks. In the cabinet there are loose cables from all the rooms, as you say. 2 cables are wired into Rj-45 sockets which are connected with a RJ-45 cable.

The network carries the telephone signal along a blue and blue and white wire and it looks like it's been manually hacked (lots of these wires plugged into the same RJ-45 socket) so that there's a telephone signal in a couple of rooms.

edit: I've had a play this morning and put my wireless router (with a long extension power lead) in the cupboard. Wired up the 3 RJ-45 sockets. Put the main line with telephone signal into a RJ-45 into telephone adaptor then into an adsl microfilter then into the router then connected the two other RJ-45 sockets that had been wired to the router with ethernet cables.

It worked and my 360 just plugged in via it's ethernet cable in the lounge connected fine.

So I'm thinking if I get a plug installed so I can run the router from there it might not be the most professional solution but it would work.

Is there any way I can do this without having to get a plug installed? Do patch panesl need power? (I'm guessing not) but how do I plug an ethernet cable in to the wall when I'm alread using the socket to get the telephone signal out?

 

[csmager]

Is there any way I can do this without having to get a plug installed? Do patch panesl need power? (I'm guessing not) but how do I plug an ethernet cable in to the wall when I'm alread using the socket to get the telephone signal out?

I'm not sure an adapter would exist, so you'd have to bodge it. At the other end you can take the socket off the wall. If the sockets are modular, you might can buy a phone socket or another RJ45 socket and basically wire the two blue wires to that one. So you'd have two sockets - one for phone, one for ethernet.

 

[iraiguana]

Pictures please