I absolutely applaud a DIY spirit and this type of project makes me excited about potentially owning my own home some day. A few things, the wall plate used in the video isn't ideal for this type of application and could degrade the performance of the cable. Using proper RJ45 connnectors is ideal but requires some knowledge of the color codes and some specialized punch down/crimping tools. Catagory cable is twisted for a reason, it helps reduce noise; keep them twisted as much as possible up to their termination points. To help identify what kind of cable you have you can identify it by the color of the outer jacket; a skinny grey color is most likely Cat 3 or worse and is not good for data transmission. Blue is either Cat 5 or Cat5e and if you're extremely lucky, yellow is Cat6. You do not have to use a 9Volt battery to help identify copper wire pairs. A multi-meter should have an Ohm setting, it will have an omega symbol. Simply twist 2 copper wires together on one end and one the other free ends place the probes on the 2 free ends with the ohm setting, depending on your model of meter it will ring out or show zero ohms. Infinite ohms will appear on the wrong pair. Using solder to splice copper wires together is ideal and the best way, but for communication cables a proper telephone and data cable splice kit would be better. The absolute best way would be a patch panel or the use of RJ45 connectors to preserve the performance of the cables. All in all good safety tips and if it works, it works! (I am a certified low volt tech and on top of that a licensed electrician. I understand that ideal is sometimes not always practical.)
Sheldon, I wish you had been there advising me before I embarked on the project; you've got really great suggestions! If I do this project in another house I'll definitely implement some of your questions.
Just for the sake of keeping info updated and accurate. The color of a cables outer jacket has nothing to do with its catagory rating. Most newer homes now are wired with Cat5e or some cases Cat6 and can be any color. White and Blue are probably the most used, but I've seen homes prewired with black and even green before.
Nice video, I did a similar point to point connection for wiring my master bedroom for a smart tv and for my daughter's room for her laptop , I decided to use Scotchlok connectors instead of soldering for ease of use.
Having ethernet instead of the (nowadays) useless phone jacks is the dream. Good work man and cool tutorial. You could work on your sound being steady and for the tutorial, the plugging in of all cables and using the internet for a second could have rounded it off.
Hi I know this video is old, but I have some questions. 1) So I have two separate boxes for my coax able and then a different box for the “landlines”. Do I need to run a jumper wire between the two? Or do I simply plug in an ethernet cord to the, now converted, ethernet port, then plug the other end into my computer? 2) Where does the internet company run the “internet” into? Do they run it into the box where all the cat 5e cables are or do they run it to the box where the coax ables are? Im just scared if I unplug all the wires in the box with the cat cables it will make me lose wifi.
Nice video but most homes on long island have cat 3 or worse, the dreaded 2 pairs, green, red, black and blue. Unfortunately this is not doable. Better to just run new lines of cat6a and be ready for future installs. Never use cat7.
I am still using a landline ( I know, I know :)) but I want to starting using voip and not with my cable company. Is this the only improvement I need line wise? Thank you for this tutorial, I know I'll need to watch a few times before I 'get it' but I'm committed. c
awesome tutorial! I am looking to do this exact thing at my house. Just have a few questions to clarify: Is the plate youn replaced the phone jack with a regular ethernet plug? Also, When hooking up wires at the telephone box outside, how did distinguish between ethernet vs which was the original phone wire to connect it to? i understand what you mean with verifying you have the right one with the 9v battery but am i just looking for a wire with the same 8 pairs inside to attach? thanks again for your time with this video, much help!!
Hey, thanks! So one key part of this is that my house was using cat 5 network cable for it's phone lines. If the cable behind for phone jacks is just two wires, you probably won't be able to do this. So before you start or buy anything, go ahead and take a plate off and take a look at your network cable. To your second question, before I changed anything I had three different phone jacks with three different network cables running to my phone box outside. I just wanted to connect two of them together. I wasn't connecting then up to the phone line at all. Does that help answer your questions? I'm on phone right now, sorry for the formatting!
@@SeanJensen1 i do have the cat5 wires behind my plates. i just went outside and took a look at my boxes (yes, plural...) i think my situation is setup different because my current CABLE internet provider only has coax cables but previous homeowners had ATT phone lines. I would have to connect the two somehow?
Couple of questions... 1: Can you attach multiple rooms to one line? (you used the example of your ISP was in your master bedroom to your phone jack to take it to the Front room) i want to make all my landlines into Ethernet ports so i would have to attach 6 Cat5s to the one cat5 that is near my modem. So is this possible? 2: If you cant do question 1 then....can you use the Power line from the phone company to power an Ethernet switch?
You cannot attach multiple ports to one line without passing the line through a switch. Ethernet is a point to point cable. So you can take lines from multiple rooms and run them all to a router to have all of the rooms connected.
I’m wanting to upgrade the wire, the one on thin white cable that runs from the box to the one in my living room there Is where I plug my broadband into, I’m thinking that one wire must be able to be upgraded given me better Internet. How can I do this?
It's not the wire that gives you the internet, it's the box that converts the signal. So you've got two things to look for: there's probably a coaxial cable (pretty easily identified if you look up images on Google) that goes to a box (this is called a modem), a cable (could be the white cable that you're taking about) that goes from the modem to either your router or another device. Upgrading any of the cables won't really help you get faster internet.
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I absolutely applaud a DIY spirit and this type of project makes me excited about potentially owning my own home some day.
A few things, the wall plate used in the video isn't ideal for this type of application and could degrade the performance of the cable. Using proper RJ45 connnectors is ideal but requires some knowledge of the color codes and some specialized punch down/crimping tools.
Catagory cable is twisted for a reason, it helps reduce noise; keep them twisted as much as possible up to their termination points.
To help identify what kind of cable you have you can identify it by the color of the outer jacket; a skinny grey color is most likely Cat 3 or worse and is not good for data transmission. Blue is either Cat 5 or Cat5e and if you're extremely lucky, yellow is Cat6.
You do not have to use a 9Volt battery to help identify copper wire pairs. A multi-meter should have an Ohm setting, it will have an omega symbol. Simply twist 2 copper wires together on one end and one the other free ends place the probes on the 2 free ends with the ohm setting, depending on your model of meter it will ring out or show zero ohms. Infinite ohms will appear on the wrong pair.
Using solder to splice copper wires together is ideal and the best way, but for communication cables a proper telephone and data cable splice kit would be better. The absolute best way would be a patch panel or the use of RJ45 connectors to preserve the performance of the cables.
All in all good safety tips and if it works, it works!
(I am a certified low volt tech and on top of that a licensed electrician. I understand that ideal is sometimes not always practical.)
Sheldon, I wish you had been there advising me before I embarked on the project; you've got really great suggestions! If I do this project in another house I'll definitely implement some of your questions.
Just for the sake of keeping info updated and accurate. The color of a cables outer jacket has nothing to do with its catagory rating. Most newer homes now are wired with Cat5e or some cases Cat6 and can be any color. White and Blue are probably the most used, but I've seen homes prewired with black and even green before.
Thanks for taking the time to show us your mistakes! Learned a lot. Thumbs up.
Nice video, I did a similar point to point connection for wiring my master bedroom for a smart tv and for my daughter's room for her laptop , I decided to use Scotchlok connectors instead of soldering for ease of use.
Having ethernet instead of the (nowadays) useless phone jacks is the dream. Good work man and cool tutorial.
You could work on your sound being steady and for the tutorial, the plugging in of all cables and using the internet for a second could have rounded it off.
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll work on the audio for sure!
You seem like a natural teacher. You should make more of this type of thing.
Thanks for the compliment! I'm hoping to make more videos, so hit like and subscribe to get notified of new content.
Hi I know this video is old, but I have some questions.
1) So I have two separate boxes for my coax able and then a different box for the “landlines”. Do I need to run a jumper wire between the two? Or do I simply plug in an ethernet cord to the, now converted, ethernet port, then plug the other end into my computer?
2) Where does the internet company run the “internet” into? Do they run it into the box where all the cat 5e cables are or do they run it to the box where the coax ables are? Im just scared if I unplug all the wires in the box with the cat cables it will make me lose wifi.
The easiest way of checking continuity is just tie the two wires together at one end and then check the resistance at the other. No battery needed.
Nice video but most homes on long island have cat 3 or worse, the dreaded 2 pairs, green, red, black and blue. Unfortunately this is not doable. Better to just run new lines of cat6a and be ready for future installs. Never use cat7.
Yeah, that is unfortunate. Maybe at some point you'll be able to use this trick!
Just learning here, why do you say not to use cat 7?
Its annoying to work with cause of the shielding. Plus cat 6 is cheaper and will give you 10g connections
I am still using a landline ( I know, I know :)) but I want to starting using voip and not with my cable company. Is this the only improvement I need line wise? Thank you for this tutorial, I know I'll need to watch a few times before I 'get it' but I'm committed. c
awesome tutorial! I am looking to do this exact thing at my house. Just have a few questions to clarify: Is the plate youn replaced the phone jack with a regular ethernet plug? Also, When hooking up wires at the telephone box outside, how did distinguish between ethernet vs which was the original phone wire to connect it to? i understand what you mean with verifying you have the right one with the 9v battery but am i just looking for a wire with the same 8 pairs inside to attach? thanks again for your time with this video, much help!!
Hey, thanks! So one key part of this is that my house was using cat 5 network cable for it's phone lines. If the cable behind for phone jacks is just two wires, you probably won't be able to do this. So before you start or buy anything, go ahead and take a plate off and take a look at your network cable.
To your second question, before I changed anything I had three different phone jacks with three different network cables running to my phone box outside. I just wanted to connect two of them together. I wasn't connecting then up to the phone line at all.
Does that help answer your questions? I'm on phone right now, sorry for the formatting!
@@SeanJensen1 i do have the cat5 wires behind my plates. i just went outside and took a look at my boxes (yes, plural...) i think my situation is setup different because my current CABLE internet provider only has coax cables but previous homeowners had ATT phone lines. I would have to connect the two somehow?
Couple of questions...
1: Can you attach multiple rooms to one line? (you used the example of your ISP was in your master bedroom to your phone jack to take it to the Front room) i want to make all my landlines into Ethernet ports so i would have to attach 6 Cat5s to the one cat5 that is near my modem. So is this possible?
2: If you cant do question 1 then....can you use the Power line from the phone company to power an Ethernet switch?
You cannot attach multiple ports to one line without passing the line through a switch. Ethernet is a point to point cable. So you can take lines from multiple rooms and run them all to a router to have all of the rooms connected.
I’m wanting to upgrade the wire, the one on thin white cable that runs from the box to the one in my living room there Is where I plug my broadband into, I’m thinking that one wire must be able to be upgraded given me better Internet. How can I do this?
It's not the wire that gives you the internet, it's the box that converts the signal. So you've got two things to look for: there's probably a coaxial cable (pretty easily identified if you look up images on Google) that goes to a box (this is called a modem), a cable (could be the white cable that you're taking about) that goes from the modem to either your router or another device. Upgrading any of the cables won't really help you get faster internet.
I learned not-to-do from your mistakes. Thanks.
Good tutorial but need to work on your sound quality. A lot of places I couldn’t hear or understand what you were trying to say.