A long Weekend
avelanchefan
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(a bit long...sorry)
Bought a brand new house last month. (Well nearly brand new, it was lived in for 5 months then sat empty for a year) So the house has CAT-5 wired into every room with the phone jacks. But the **** part was that there was no CAT-5 jacks/plugs that were put on in the command center box. It was all bare wire. Well after researching on how to add the plugs I thought I was over my head in it. So I called the company that had installed the C-5 but they wanted a trip charge plus an hourly fee to put on the plugs. I was a little peeved considering that they should have done that in the first place. But since I am not the original owner, and it has been 18 months since the house was built my hands were a little tied.
So I did some more research, and found this on EBAY http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=28025&item=5712530998 I ordered it and got it yesterday. The crimp tool worked flawlessly. VERY well constructed, and easy to use. As for adding the plugs into the wires, well after I figured out the wiring schematic of the 8 miniscule wires it was fairly easy to do. I naturally had to redo a few because the wires were not making the best contact. But there are a total of 9 CAT-5 ports in the house...so obviously I had nine wires to do, and I only had to redo 3 of them.
Once the setup was complete, I put the cable modem and router into the control center, but was a little miffed because the modem nor the router will fit into it. I hooked the cable up to the modem (the cable also runs into the control center) And it fired right up, next I dragged my wifes laptop in, and just plugged the cable modem directly into her computer. But that was a no go. I had to reenable a few things in her XP, because for the last four years she has been runing wireless off of it. Once everything was enabled her IE fired right up and surfed fine. Then I double checked the router, so I plugged the modem into the router and then of course the router to the laptop. Rebooted the laptop, and got the internet right away.
So now that I knew the router and cable modem worked I just started placing random CAT-5 plugs into the router, and went around the house with the laptop to see which plug serviced each jack. It actually went very smoothly because once the laptop was connected to the jack the router sensed it immediatly, and told me what port was being used. So marked the each cable for the corrosponding room.
So now that I was all done it was time to fire up the XBOX, and a little gaming time. I wanted to see how it compared to the wireless. But the XBOX would not recognize it. I tried all different avenues, putting in the router IP address, MAC address, DNS server...called COX. They said it was the router, and the firewall needed to be disabled. So I went and got the laptop again, pluged it back in....it would not work, no internet. WTF?? And I know it was working a few minutes ago on it's main jack because I was surfing the net trying to find out a solution to my problem. So I went back to the router and unplugged all the CAT-5 to it. and plugged in some random ones that were not in use. Yep there was the problem I marked the wrong wire for the wrong room. I had one of my boys rooms marked instead of it being marked XBOX. Fired to XBoX back up turned off all of the IP addresses I had put it, and made the XBOX look for it automatically. It found it fine, and I was running/gunning in no time.
So buy the time I clipped the first plug, to the time I started to play XBOX live it was a 5 and half hour job. Sure I was a rookie, and I could have paid someone to do it. but now I know how, and am more knowledgable for it. And funny to say, but I actually enjoyed it. And the most positive aspect is that I have cable internet in every room, and no lost internet on the laptop or Xbox live because of a phone call. (YES, my 2.4 GHZ phone runs on the same frequency as the wireless, so everytime the phone rings and is answered I lose connection) And bandwidth with two computers on and the XBox being played on live was 3.3 MBPS, 2.6 second 1MB file download, and 397.8 KBPS storage. Not to shabby I thought.
Bought a brand new house last month. (Well nearly brand new, it was lived in for 5 months then sat empty for a year) So the house has CAT-5 wired into every room with the phone jacks. But the **** part was that there was no CAT-5 jacks/plugs that were put on in the command center box. It was all bare wire. Well after researching on how to add the plugs I thought I was over my head in it. So I called the company that had installed the C-5 but they wanted a trip charge plus an hourly fee to put on the plugs. I was a little peeved considering that they should have done that in the first place. But since I am not the original owner, and it has been 18 months since the house was built my hands were a little tied.
So I did some more research, and found this on EBAY http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=28025&item=5712530998 I ordered it and got it yesterday. The crimp tool worked flawlessly. VERY well constructed, and easy to use. As for adding the plugs into the wires, well after I figured out the wiring schematic of the 8 miniscule wires it was fairly easy to do. I naturally had to redo a few because the wires were not making the best contact. But there are a total of 9 CAT-5 ports in the house...so obviously I had nine wires to do, and I only had to redo 3 of them.
Once the setup was complete, I put the cable modem and router into the control center, but was a little miffed because the modem nor the router will fit into it. I hooked the cable up to the modem (the cable also runs into the control center) And it fired right up, next I dragged my wifes laptop in, and just plugged the cable modem directly into her computer. But that was a no go. I had to reenable a few things in her XP, because for the last four years she has been runing wireless off of it. Once everything was enabled her IE fired right up and surfed fine. Then I double checked the router, so I plugged the modem into the router and then of course the router to the laptop. Rebooted the laptop, and got the internet right away.
So now that I knew the router and cable modem worked I just started placing random CAT-5 plugs into the router, and went around the house with the laptop to see which plug serviced each jack. It actually went very smoothly because once the laptop was connected to the jack the router sensed it immediatly, and told me what port was being used. So marked the each cable for the corrosponding room.
So now that I was all done it was time to fire up the XBOX, and a little gaming time. I wanted to see how it compared to the wireless. But the XBOX would not recognize it. I tried all different avenues, putting in the router IP address, MAC address, DNS server...called COX. They said it was the router, and the firewall needed to be disabled. So I went and got the laptop again, pluged it back in....it would not work, no internet. WTF?? And I know it was working a few minutes ago on it's main jack because I was surfing the net trying to find out a solution to my problem. So I went back to the router and unplugged all the CAT-5 to it. and plugged in some random ones that were not in use. Yep there was the problem I marked the wrong wire for the wrong room. I had one of my boys rooms marked instead of it being marked XBOX. Fired to XBoX back up turned off all of the IP addresses I had put it, and made the XBOX look for it automatically. It found it fine, and I was running/gunning in no time.
So buy the time I clipped the first plug, to the time I started to play XBOX live it was a 5 and half hour job. Sure I was a rookie, and I could have paid someone to do it. but now I know how, and am more knowledgable for it. And funny to say, but I actually enjoyed it. And the most positive aspect is that I have cable internet in every room, and no lost internet on the laptop or Xbox live because of a phone call. (YES, my 2.4 GHZ phone runs on the same frequency as the wireless, so everytime the phone rings and is answered I lose connection) And bandwidth with two computers on and the XBox being played on live was 3.3 MBPS, 2.6 second 1MB file download, and 397.8 KBPS storage. Not to shabby I thought.
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Originally posted by avelanchefan
(a bit long...sorry)
(YES, my 2.4 GHZ phone runs on the same frequency as the wireless, so everytime the phone rings and is answered I lose connection)
i see no issue with that:cool:***WAREMTAE*** -
Good work. Now you have the tools and the know-how to do it again in the future. That ebay auction is a steal for what you get. As long as the crimper is of good quality....
One thing to remember, make sure that the other end of the cable is not plugged into anything (IE a switch or a computer) when you crimp the opposite end on.... you can short out all the pins across the board and sometimes that will render a port on the switch/router, or a network card, totally useless.Ludicrous gibs! -
Well it has been running for 20 days now with no issues. Scratch that a few issues.
Mainly I did not get all the wires onto the gold plates of the plugs good enough, so I would lose connection at random. But after I re-did them all was well.
Other than that this went reallly smoothly. I know now that I could even make my own cables if need be.
