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Manukotiro

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#248659 4-Apr-2019 14:12
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Please forgive me in advance for my lack of knowledge in this area. 

I am seeking the helpful advice of someone more network savvy than myself.

 

So the problem I am facing is this:
I have shifted into what used to be a home office building (5+ years ago with previous landlords), which certainly had internet to it. This has 20+ ethernet/telephone? ports in the walls, however no connectivity. I believe the landlord has a VDSL internet connection however the building I am in is too far for wifi (something I'm working on seperately).

 

Digging deeper I find that where a switch once would have been has been totally ripped out by the previous owners, see below:

 

https://imgur.com/a/hbDJXx2

 

Above this switch is an alarm system box. 

 

I have access to a 24 plug unmanaged switch, but obviously, there is no way to connect anything as the cords from the previous unit have been broken and taped off it seems. 

 

Any advice on where to start with a solution would be much appreciated, I am calling spark this arvo to see if they have a record of what has happened. 

I'm pretty keen to find a solution myself and not afraid of getting my hands dirty to fix it, so any starting point would be super helpful :)

 

 

 

Thank you! 


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  #2210755 4-Apr-2019 14:26
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Is is possible for images of the back of the ports where the cables plug into. This will be the most important thing to get.

From the image maybe the blue cables go to the wall jackpoints and the Black Cables are maybe in from Spark. The Blue one on the right hand side looks like its been split up for some reason.

 

Better to maybe get someone with a toner to see what is actually happening as I presume the cables are not labeled.

 

 

 

 

 

 




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  #2210757 4-Apr-2019 14:36
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Where does that white/grey cable go?

 

As above, it looks as if some of that patch panel (which is what the photo is of) is cabled up to the wall ports - are any of the wall ports numbered? It certainly doesn't look like 20 of them are wired (a photo from behind would be helpful).

 

 

 

When you say the landlord has VDSL, is it in the same building? Are they happy for you to use it?

 

If not, can you get your own connection in?

 

I'd be looking at getting the internet going first, then worrying about getting the wall ports to work (that is relatively easy, so long as that patch panel is still wired to some of them).


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