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hanguker · Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Location: Korea

I have both telephone lines and LAN lines in my new house. The LAN is hooked up to a switching hub. In my living room I only have a phone hookup. I want to reconnect so that I can change the phone hookup to one of my LAN lines. I figure this is possible both have the same connector and my "communications box" has all the connections available...confusing? I've attached a picture of my "communications box"

Basically, can I make that phone hookup in my living room become a LAN hookup by messing with the connections in the box in the linked picture? Thanks for any help.

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cubanlord · Joined: 08 Jul 2005 Location: In Japan!

what writing is there on top of each channel?

hanguker · Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Location: Korea

Sorry cubanlord, but you lost me..What channels do you mean? The LEDs on the switch are just labeled 1-5. What is that bar with all the wires on the right side? Telephone?

cubanlord · Joined: 08 Jul 2005 Location: In Japan!

cubanlord · Joined: 08 Jul 2005 Location: In Japan!

hanguker · Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Location: Korea

Thanks for your help cubanlord. Could you clear things up for me a little bit more? Smile

I'm pretty sure that the switching hub is only mine. The connection box is in my house and there are five LAN jacks spread throughout different rooms (but, not the livingroom of course Sad

). However, I only have one PC connected and my number 1 and number 4 jacks are blinking...strange.

Interestingly, the phone jack is exactly the same as the LAN jack on my wall connections. Also, they seem to have the same wiring.

Couldn't I (or someone who knows what they're doing LOL) pull the right set of wires off the phone "bar" and attach them to an RJ-45 connector and plug them into my switching hub...therefore becoming an internet jack?

Demophobe · Joined: 17 May 2004

The wall jacks in your house won't be of any service to you. They probably aren't wired up for internet service. You will need to run cables from all computers on the network to the hub, and have the hub wired up to the main line in (out from the wall) on the hub.

There is only one "socket" wired for service in most homes. That is the delivery point for the internet. This is the line that will go into the "ethernet" or "internet" port on the hub. The remaining computers need to be wired into the 1,2,3, and 4 plugs on the hub. This cannot be done through the wall jacks in your different rooms; the cables must be run from the computers to the hub physically with LAN cable.

I'm not sure if this has anything to do with the problem, but it may explain why you only have 2 lights on the hub blinking; the other computers wired through your wall jacks aren't reaching the hub at all.

hanguker · Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Location: Korea

My place is actually wired for 4 internet hookups through the switching hub. There are 4 jacks in 4 different rooms. The jacks look like double phone jacks, but each has a phone connection and a LAN connection. There is one cable coming in and 4 coming out of the hub to the respective rooms...at least that's my impression.

The thing with the lights is I ONLY have ONE PC. That is, I'm only using one LAN connection. Why are there 2 lights flashing? Nothing is plugged into the other jacks.

Demophobe · Joined: 17 May 2004

One light will be for the connection, the line in to the hub from the net, and the other is your computer.

Sorry about my previous post; I though your rooms weren't wired up. Didn't mean to talk down to you.

hanguker · Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Location: Korea

Thanks for the help Demophobe.

Any ideas about switching the phone for the LAN?

Demophobe · Joined: 17 May 2004

Networking isn't my forte. To be sure, I am a hands-on person with that area of computing. I have used hubs, routers and ICS in Windows, and it seemed pretty straightforward to me; it just worked, thank goodness. No muss, no fuss.