Hi,
I live in a 2 story suburban home, and want to run ethernet from the second floor through to the basement. Obviously, we don't want to have a loose wire running through the home, so we settled for having the internet run through the power outlets. This is kinda slow though, so I was looking for alternative methods for having this done. Throughout our home, we have LAN outlets which I'm assuming were at one point used for wired phones, but are not in use at the moment. Is it at all possible to use these to run ethernet from our router to one of these sockets. I have attached pictures of these sockets. I believe they are cat5, though I could be wrong about this, and they are smaller than the ethernet port in my pc. Is it as easy as buying some form of converter, plugging the outlet into one socket and then running a wire through another? I feel like that would be too easy.
Thank you for your help!
I live in a 2 story suburban home, and want to run ethernet from the second floor through to the basement. Obviously, we don't want to have a loose wire running through the home, so we settled for having the internet run through the power outlets. This is kinda slow though, so I was looking for alternative methods for having this done. Throughout our home, we have LAN outlets which I'm assuming were at one point used for wired phones, but are not in use at the moment. Is it at all possible to use these to run ethernet from our router to one of these sockets. I have attached pictures of these sockets. I believe they are cat5, though I could be wrong about this, and they are smaller than the ethernet port in my pc. Is it as easy as buying some form of converter, plugging the outlet into one socket and then running a wire through another? I feel like that would be too easy.
Thank you for your help!
- TL;DR
- Can I run ethernet/internet through my house's phone/lan lines? If so, how would I do this?