[mdlug] OT: Home Network Wiring ?

[Wojtak, Greg]

Hmmm, that link doesn't work for me, either.  Doing a search on
'leviton' at Home Depot's site doesn't offer anything useful either...

-----Original Message-----
From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf
Of Ron Blanchett
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 1:40 PM
To: MDLUG's Main discussion list
Subject: Re: [mdlug] OT: Home Network Wiring ?

Greg,

I have that same box in my house and the punch board in your box is
for phone only.
Leviton does make an Ethernet Punch board ($25.00).
I would suggest going to your local Home Depot and looking for one.
http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeI
d=10051&langId=-1&catalogId=10053&productId=100062860&N=10000003+90072

Then rewire the bottom jacks in all your rooms to the ethernet board
with at least cat5e cable.
I am getting ready to do this in my home sometime in the next 6 months
(winter project list).

-Ron


On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Wojtak, Greg
<GregWojtak at quickenloans.com> wrote:
> I figured that there is more than enough brain power in this list to
> help me out with this networking set up.  I have one of the Leviton
> central home data/comm wiring setups.  In each room, I have a dual
RJ-45
> jack.  The orange and blue pair are tied to the top jack, and the
brown
> and green are tied to the bottom.  In the garage is a punch down block
> with 9 slots on it, labeled 0 - 8.  Looking at the board itself, it
> looks like the paths simply tie each wire together, ie there is a
trace
> running from wire 1 from slot 0 all the way down to slot 8.  How can I
> wire my cable modem into this to get phone and teh internets in each
> room?  Is that even possible from what I've described?
>
> My original thought was that I could run a piece of cat5 from the
cable
> modem to block 0 on the board, which I presume to be an input and
punch
> in the orange and blue pair.  Since our phone is tied through the
cable
> modem as well, I was going to then punch in a phone cable from the
phone
> jack on the cable modem into the remaining slots.
>
> Anyone have any ideas on this?  I can clarify on any points that are
> unclear.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Greg
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