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Old 03-24-2007, 03:10 PM   #9 (permalink)
illdeviant
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Location: Lawn Guyland
haha. thanks. as for the (w)holes in the wall it's not my place. I'm renting a room in a house ^^

I guess the bigger situation here is.... this lady has I guess a pretty new house where there are 2 ethernet ports in each room (it's labeled cat5 or something. one port is white the other blue). Currently, she has some crap AT&T dsl and so has a phone line hooked to a modem and an ethernet cord from the modem to her pc. Now here I come and I want to utilize the ports in the wall. How does that work?

I imagine that each port in each room is basically the output of an ethernet extension cable that feeds through the house. I would think that if there were 5 rooms with a port in each room, that at a central location in the house the 5 ethernet cables would come together and there would be 5 ports next to eaach other on the wall. Then, in order to make use of the infrastructure ( i want to avoid wireless... duno to me it's less efficient and secure.. I think cheaper too if i have to purchase a wireless router and adapter) I buy a router feed all of the 5 wires from the wall into the router then feed that to the modem? Is that a legit process or do I have the system totally backwards?
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