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Odsodium

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#323046 19-Oct-2025 22:01
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I've been trying to figure out how to connect my ONT to the existing ethernet ports located in my house. The current wiring in my house is as follows.

 

 

 

There seems to be a white network cable (ethernet?) going from the ETP into my attic and coming to a wall in the living room where it connects to the ONT. This was added after the home was built.

 

From the same location in the attic, there is another blue network cable coming from the ETP, this cable goes to a RJ45 outlet in one of the bedrooms and daisy chained to the rest of the outlets in other rooms? All of the outlets in the rooms have the same blue network cable and I assume this was installed when the home was built.

 

I have throughly looked everywhere and there is no patch panel where the cables meet. Could anyone give me any advice on how I would go about connecting internet to the outlets?

 

 

 

 


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  #3427051 21-Oct-2025 17:46
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Essentially the wires should not be untwisted as much as they have been. 
This website explains it:  What does bad termination look like

 

What I'm wondering about this one:  
There are 5 pairs of wires in the photo
4 pairs going (badly) to the ethernet.
Extra blue/white pair coming from another cable for phone?

 

Are all of the outlet panels the same?  With Aerial/phone/data on them? 
Or is there a 'different' one you can find? 


My house is from approximately the same era, so I'll explain the setup I found when I moved in. 

Phone outlets in several rooms with one cable doing a daisy-chain loop around all of them.  Unused now. 
There is a 3 ethernet socket panel in the office
There is a 1 ethernet socket panel in each of the bedrooms. 

 

3 cables go from the office point - one to each bedroom. (trial and error to figure out which one is which)
Effectively the office point became a sort of "patch panel" 

 


Given that it is approximately the same era, you might have gotten something similar? 

 

Essentially for ethernet you want a 'star' network - with each panel getting its own cable, and all of the cables ending up in one central point where you can put your router. 

 

 

 

hope this helps,

 

evnafets


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