BogoSort » Projects http://bogosort.org/wp Easy access schadenfreude for my friends and foes Tue, 29 Jun 2010 07:27:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Home Network http://bogosort.org/wp/2009/07/31/home-network http://bogosort.org/wp/2009/07/31/home-network#comments Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:36:02 +0000 Lee http://bogosort.org/wp/?p=250 Since the house is pretty much movein ready, potential home improvement projects are rather limited.  The first one that I had originally planned on doing was wiring the house with ethernet.  But low and behold after walking through it as an owner, I noticed that there are RJ45 jacks in various rooms around the house.  After the initial bout of enthusiasm, I plugged my MacBook Pro into it and it didn’t detect anything on the other end.

Looking around for a bit, I eventually found a mini wiring cabinet in the garage.  Turns out all of those RJ45 jacks are connected to a OnQ Phone Punchdown.   After a bit of research, I believe that this problem can be “fixed” by splicing the cable before it hits the punchdown, attaching a patch panel both to the punchdown and walljacks, then using patch cables to connect each jack to either a switch or the phone punchdown.  Looking at MonoPrice, I can probably do all this for about 60 bucks(I already have a switch).

The main worry that I have about this plan is having network equipment in a non-climate controlled garage.

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