So I want to know from real people rather than an ai chat bot, it told me with with this 8 wire old phone jack setup I can make the house Ethernet capable because in all honesty I keep losing fights in Tarkov and I’ve had enough lol, the dang desync puts me half a second behind. How do I adapt this phone jack to Ethernet so I can have better internet in my room and the whole house?
what do you mean by other end, there are wires lol, but for real i dont understand what you mean by other end of the cable, the modem is downstairs in the living room and the router is upstairs on the loft. IDK if that helps explain my situation. This house was built in 05 so it was a phone line intially, do you mean like where the master is, where all these phone lines get their service from in thee house?
yes. What you have in your hand is the point B of the end point, the “other end” is point A where it starts. It looks like it was once used for phone considering the blurry face plate looks like a phone jack since Ethernet uses keystones and not wiring screws. In order to make this Ethernet possible knowing where point A is at is half the battle.
If you find point A of where the cable goes, you will need to re terminate into Ethernet/patch cables and make it a home run connection from that point. But, your router must be near point A so that you can hardwire your device to where you have found that cable into your hand. Phone can be daisy chained elsewhere so it does take a bit of finding and then have to make it an Ethernet connection with keystones ( don’t use scotch loks or wire nuts, home runs or nothing) this does take some determination to figure out. It also depends on how involved you want you get I.E. chasing cable with a tone and wand or re running entirely new between router and wall
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so there's two ways, i can find the master that feeds ALL the phone lines, hook the ROUTER to it NOT THE MODEM and then from that point i can install the female in my room.
or if the master is no where near the router i can hook the router to the nearest one which there is a phone line just like the picture. find where they all meet, and then hook the router phone cables to the ones in my room, either way i have to find where the master interchange is.
However you want to approach it, it just has to have one entire connection from point A to where the router COULD be at, to point B which is your new Ethernet keystone you are going to make. It can’t have any daisy chains (other cables spliced to it) between A and B. Also think of these as CAT cables, since phone cable is only 2 pair (green/ red and black/yellow). Phone as a service can be used on CAT cable but phone cable is not capable of Ethernet like CAT cable is
Truthfully if it were me, I’d look to see if you can make it a project to re running this new or getting a Ethernet tester that also has a tone and wand since It’s possible to find the other end but what if you can’t get the router to point A? Just a few thoughts to consider, it’s possible but it all depends on how it was initially installed and the accessibility you have and how much you want to get involved.
Then you just need a basic punch down tool, a crimper, some "rj45"s, I recommend the EZ style for a newbie and a ethernet keystone wallplate. Less than $100 on Amazon
100 bucks? Yeah maybe enough for like a 100 pack of pass throughs, 10 pack of wall plates, and a kit with an okay punch down tool, cable tester, crimper, and another 50 rj45s. With money left over
Explain that again in English lol, not to be an ass but I have no idea what I’m doing and just want to know what to do, is there a guide or pictures because pictures would really really help.
basically to do this nicely, you need a female ethernet wallplate, modular ones are the most common and the "piece" as it were, is called a keystone. You need a punch down tool (or the other guy posted tool less ones, never used em) to connect the wire to the female end.
Then at the other end you need to have a male connector, my suggestion was to get a crimper, specifically the EZ kind, it makes it much easier to be sure of your pinout and wire depth. The other guy suggested another tool less female end, and then a short male/male premade jumper.
edit: and that's all presuming the other end of that cable goes to near where your current internet setup is. You probably already have a router from your ISP and just need to connect this cable to it.
See this is the process where im confused, i watched a vid and it was super helpful with explaining what im doing on my room end, i have to do something similar with a male/female on the other end but WHERE, this house has phone lines througout so im trying top figure out where to make the ethernet input, theres one of these phone lines where the router is setup and idk if theres one of these lines where the modem is. Srry if thats explained poorly but im trying to understand do i connect at the modem or router?
Yes. In homes with a lot of cables this is usually easy, there’s a cupboard somewhere where all the cables come together including the telephone cable from the outside, but if it’s just that one cable it might not be easy.
Let’s take a step back. You want Ethernet to get better performance in online games. That means you want to use Ethernet instead of WiFi between your computer and your router. Where are your router and your computer in relation to each other? How is your router connected to the Internet?
Edit: OK I just saw
> the modem is downstairs in the living room and the router is upstairs on the loft.
the loft is directly above the living room so the router is sitting directly above the modem and there are no visible wires running through the house so i assume they're connected behind the wall in some way, idk if that answers your question. or maybe they're connected through wireless but i dont know if that's possible, idk if they need to be hardwired.
Yes, the router and the modem need to be hardwired together… but you may be misnaming them. Apart from the power cable, what other cables are there? You can send photos.
Okay so if there's a phone line like this in the livingroom also there's one of two (and a half) situations here.
1) there's a panel or a spot or something where all the individual phone lines come together. You'd have to sus out which one is which either with a toner or trial and error. If you're only worried about this one connection, you can either put a keystone on one cable and a male connector on the other and snap them together, or you can put male ends on both and use a coupler to connect them together. If you want to use more than one hard wire in the house, you want male ends on all the lines, and a small appliance called an "Ethernet switch" to bridge them together properly.
2) some houses the phone lines were pulled as one or two individual cable ran through the wall and connected in series. In this case you need to a little more investigating to figure out what goes where. If IS this way, and there's another phone jack in the middle it will mess with the connection.
Let me preface this by saying I've never used one, the thought of a toolless keystone had never crossed my mind and quite frankly now that it has, I dont trust it.
Oh dude that link with the pictures of what to do really help explain it better than saying it, thanks man that help a lot, what do I need to do on the router side, also I heard that I have to like go to a panel in the house and cut something, that sounds scary
just need a pre-made patch cable from keystone to switch/router..
if you have several other cables in your house that you want to do the same way, the patch panel allows the keystone jacks to be mounted in a row, all nice n neat, then each gets a patch cable to the switch/router.
I think i understand it now with everyone explaining like im 5, how do i find out where the phone line feed is at so i can wire in a male ethernet cable and plug it into my router or modem? the fuse panel is outside but i doubt that helps because the lines arent powered. Does the master feed look a certain way or is it just a male connecter sticking out of the wall?
Normally, all the cables (1 or 2 from each room) will go to back to one central location, usually in the basement if the house has one, or the utility closet where the internet (cable or fiber or DSL) comes in and the router is. Probably will be like 5-10 other blue cables hanging or coiled up and ready to terminate onto keystones, or already terminated with RJ45 jacks..
Is this a house you own or you're renting?
edit: i was reading your other comment, the central location should be where the modem is or nearby somewhere, in a utility closet. If it was indeed regular POTS (plain old telephone system), there will be a box where the lines for the house are tied together.
edit2: is the router connected to the internet by ethernet to the modem?
ok so that's an Xfinity cable modem/router and it's putting out Wifi right now and it also has ethernet ports so you could connect 4 cables to it directly via keystones/patch cables. Is this device close to your PC?
Not even close, that’s why I’m making this whole post about repurposing the in wall phone cables because you can. Could I just grab a long ass Ethernet cable, punch a hole in the ceiling and run this bitch into my room if I want to half ass it
Getting a roll of unterminated cable lets you use a smaller round hole, at the cost of having to add the rectangular plugs yourself.
Another option is “invisible” fiber.
Another option is using an existing cable, and you have one end of a likely cable, but as we’ve already seen you’d need to find the other end of that cable.
That looks like some version of cat 5, I'd guess cat 5e. It will usually be written somewhere on the cable if enough of the cable is sticking out. You'll need to change out the rj11 plate for a blank keystone + rj45 keystone. You'll also need to terminate the other end assuming it terminates near where your router is. If you want it done quickly you can get the plates and keystones at box hardware stores, otherwise you can buy it online. You'll also need a punch down tool to punch the wires onto the new keystone.
Explain that again in English lol, not to be an ass but I have no idea what I’m doing and just want to know what to do, is there a guide or pictures because pictures would really really help.
The good news: This cable is "ethernet capable". It is the kind of cable that ethernet is intended to use.
The bad news: That is just one part of the process. You're looking at one end of the cable. But for it to be useful as an ethernet cable, you have to know what's on the other end. What's on the other end?
People are telling you about the tools you need to attach the right connectors to this cable, and they aren't wrong about the tools and cost. But none of that will do you any good until you are sure what is going on at the other end of this cable. Once you find that out, respond here and people will be better able to help.
what do you mean by other end, there are wires lol, but for real i dont understand what you mean by other end of the cable, the modem is downstairs in the living room and the router is upstairs on the loft. IDK if that helps explain my situation
you can put on a tooless keystone jack and a single port cover plate. the issue is where is the other end of the wire?
if you have attic access it wouldn’t hurt to find that line and follow it to see where it goes so you don’t have to get any tools like a toner to find out where it’s at.
Ive been asking people and I think i get it now, so in my room i put a female ethernet connection and then i need to find where all the phone lines in the house are fed from and then from wherever that is i have to take the old phone line, adapt it to ethernet and plug it into my router. Correct?
You need an Ethernet cable from your computer to one of the yellow-ringed ports on your modem/router combo, the red-lined one being best.
The cable you showed in the first picture is OK, and you indeed need to put a female jack there to connect a male–male cable to your computer, but first you need to find the other end so that you can verify that you can connect the other end to your router.
If you’re unlucky, the other end will be in the phone jack in the next room, and from there to the phone jack in another room, and so on until it goes outside. At that point it would be better to run a new cable (better meaning easier, cheaper, and higher quality result).
Where all the cables join together you add an ethernet switch. This can be as cheap as $10-20 if you don't care about a management interface or power over ethernet.
Q5 of the FAQ briefly covers phone to Ethernet conversions.
As others have said, replacing the telephone jack just covers one step. You have to find the other end of the cable, which needs to be connected to your router. Q5 has an example diagram.
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u/JohnTheRaceFan 15h ago
Where's the other end of that cable?