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kojo7864

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#245200 23-Jan-2019 13:11
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Hi, I am quite new to this forum and still learning the basics of networking.

 

I have reasonably new house which has a "network box" in the garage and my entire house is wired with LAN cables to a "CAT port" to a wall.

 

We are using SPARK as our ISP. 

 

Our current set up is that we have the fibre network to the ONT (huawei unit) that attaches to one of the LAN cable which is connected to CAT port in one of our room, which has a wireless router attached. 

 

Due to number of growing network devices that is clogging up the WIFI, we were hoping to have wired internet available to all of our "CAT port", so that we can have wired network to some of our big devices (TVs, 2 computers) 

 

I have tried attaching the LAN directly to the ONT and it didn't work.

 

Dear experts what do I need to do to achieve this.

 

 

 

Regards

 

John


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  #2166276 23-Jan-2019 14:05
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kojo7864:

 

Hi, I am quite new to this forum and still learning the basics of networking.

 

I have reasonably new house which has a "network box" in the garage and my entire house is wired with LAN cables to a "CAT port" to a wall.

 

We are using SPARK as our ISP. 

 

Our current set up is that we have the fibre network to the ONT (huawei unit) that attaches to one of the LAN cable which is connected to CAT port in one of our room, which has a wireless router attached. 

 

Due to number of growing network devices that is clogging up the WIFI, we were hoping to have wired internet available to all of our "CAT port", so that we can have wired network to some of our big devices (TVs, 2 computers) 

 

I have tried attaching the LAN directly to the ONT and it didn't work.

 

Dear experts what do I need to do to achieve this.

 

 

 

Regards

 

John

 

 

I read this a couple of times... so something to get started with:

 

1. The fibre comes to the ONT. The ONT is owned by Chorus (or Enable/Uff/Northpower), and all it does is provide 1 Active LAN port for you to use. In Sparks case, when they were retrofitting to old houses they would also connect one of the Voice ports back into the old house copper wiring, so you could continue to have analogue voice. I don't other ISP's do it this one.

 

2. Connected to the 1 Active LAN port on the ONT should be a router from Spark - the current model is HG659 (another huawei unit), which is used by several ISPs in NZ, with their own firmware build. There should be a cable connecting the WAN port of the HG659 to the active LAN port of the ONT.

 

3. The HG659 has a 4-port switch built into the back - they are yellow. You can connect these 4 ports to any of the 4 ports in your network box, but obviously if you want to connect more you need to introduce a new device called a switch, as others have suggested. This switch will connect to any of the 4 yellow ports on the HG659.

 

er, thats it. The above should be enough to get you going and confirm cables are working. 

 

 





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