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    Help with Prewired Cat5e House

    I hope you all were not eagerly anticipating my return. It took me longer to get to this project than I expected. But I finished it! Here are the details. I bought a tracer tool and was able to trace all the ethernet wires to drops in the house. Then I pulled the drops back and converted...
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    Help with Prewired Cat5e House

    Thanks mtrains. I had picked up a trendnet patch panel for the data cables, but thanks for the suggestion. I just bought all of the stuff yesterday so I am hoping to spend a few hours each night this week working on it. I'll let you all know how it goes!
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    Help with Prewired Cat5e House

    Thanks mtrains! I think I've got everything I need now. Seems like I will just purchase something like this: http://www.homedepot.com/p/Leviton-1x9-Structured-Media-Bridged-Telephone-Module-with-Bracket-R02-47689-00B/100479532#. I will plug the incoming phone line from outside into this panel...
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    Help with Prewired Cat5e House

    Dreamslacker, thank you very much for your super informative posts. I followed just about every single thing you said and know what I need to do from here out. I have just a couple of questions about the quoted material above if you'll indulge me. So when you say that the termination at the...
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    Help with Prewired Cat5e House

    I went in and uncovered three of the network faceplates in my house to see how the cables were terminated. Here are some pics: http://imgur.com/a/2XVGN It appears that many of the cables were terminated using only two pairs, making them only capable of carrying phone right? Instead of...
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    Help with Prewired Cat5e House

    Thanks for your input, I was wondering what those flat plastic connectors were. Mostly all of the wires coming out of the white cables end in those flat plastic connectors. But there are a few white cables that have two pairs of wires wrapped back up around the cable (the other two pairs are...
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    Help with Prewired Cat5e House

    The previous owner said it was wired for both ethernet and phone. Not sure if any of the pairs are "hot" (sorry, not sure what this means), how can I tell? It may be that the blue cables were intended for ethernet, while the white are for telephone. I can take a closer look tonight. I'll...
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    Help with Prewired Cat5e House

    Hi everyone. I found this forum while I was trying to educate myself on the cat5e wiring in the house I just purchased, so please excuse my lack of posting history. With your help, I hope to learn more about networking and become a member of this community. Let me give you a little background on...
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