House wired with RJ45 and POTS eGrand "switch" can't get Ethernet

Cad, I thought you were more technically inclined than this. Need to determine what kind of cable this is. Hopefully it is Cat5E as Cat5 only supports 100 meg.

Sorry I meant "legrand".

They are cat5e (see pics)

Looks like it was terminated as ethernet. That phone module isn't a switch though. Get rid of that and get a real gig switch.

Looks like you have some slack. I'd get a punch down block and terminate it. Would make things easier on you.

How many cable runs is it?

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If I run an Ethernet cable from my switch to that stupid phone box then plug one of the cables into one of the ports on it, it lights up and I can walk into the other room and see the device thinks it's got a wired connection but it won't work. I see the light on that end as well but no go.

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The switch you have in there isn’t an Ethernet switch at all. The traffic gets to it and goes dumb. It’s an analog telephone switch, not an Ethernet switch capable of sending digital traffic.

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Connector end wired incorrect on those cables?

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Your picture looks like they were terminated correctly.

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put in rj45 ports in each room instead of rj11

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I didn’t see a picture of what’s in the rooms. The Jack should have a label on it if you look (cat 5, cat5e, Legrand, etc). This is unlikely to be a problem, the problem is almost certainly you trying to run your Ethernet through a telephone switch.



Here’s the test you do:
It looks like you have an Ethernet cable from your switch to the box with 6-10 cables if I read your post right. Plug this into your 10g switch (which is an absurd thing to have in a house)
Get an rj45 male to male coupler, connect one cable to it.
I hope they’re labeled. If not, this is the fun part. Go room to room (or to the right one the first time) and plug in a (client) device. It should work.

If that’s the case, you need a real Ethernet switch in the room. 1g is plenty. 10g probably worthless since it is cat5e. You may be able to get 10gbE through that, but it’s not likely, and you likely don’t need it.
If you have power in there, that’s super easy.
If you do not have power in there, you want something that’s called “PoE pd”
This is a hard-to-find set of equipment (because when you search you find poe stuff and rarely “pd” stuff) that you can power over Ethernet (like a camera or a phone). I posted a thread on it a while back. Most of the responses were people ignoring that I named the standard and even provided a product that performed it. The only one I know of offhand is a $30 Flex Mini from ubiquiti. It’s only 5 ports, though (so you’d need two cables from your main rack to this room or to be less lazy than me and find an 8 port one. Unless you actually did have 10 ports in there). There are definitely some others. I think I had found a reasonably priced netgear 8-port one at one point before going another way.
There is only one PoE in with PoE out switch that (excluding passive standards. So 802.3a(X) stuff) I know of if you need PoE at your end points from an unpowered closet- that’s the Unifi Flex which is about $100. I don’t even know HOW to find/classify “PoE through.” The only other device I ran across with that is a Mikrotik Router (maybe something like 960 in the name), but it is a PITA product to begin with, and the documentation is fairly poor. My understanding is that it will deliver PASSIVE PoE at the voltage input to it (24 or 48v), so you can fry stuff if you don’t set the ports right. I, of course, never tested this. But I searched and didn’t find anyone explain even this much on those such devices.
Just as easy- “couple” all the ports like I explained above and pull them to your main switch (so run 6-10 cables to this weird box and use couplers. May be impractical)

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Should I just cut the connector off each end of the cable and crimp new ones?

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Almost assuredly useless.

Yep. When I moved into my house I had RJ11 keystone jacks in every wall. But it was really just cat 5e. Just terminated it to rj45. Intercepted cable in my attic. Snipped it. Terminated it. Ran said cable to the new room I wanted to use as my network room.

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Plug this into your 10g switch (which is an absurd thing to have in a house)

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My FiL is in IT and dumps stuff off on me. I hated not to use it because it's super nice and also does PoE.

Where’s the router in all this mess?

Problem 1. Pretty sure that’s a managed switch.
Problem 2. See all the way to the right? Those are the inputs and they generally accept fiber SFP’s.

What’s the model number of the switch? If it is what I think it is it really isn’t an appropriate switch for your application. It certainly isn’t plug and play. What you want is a dumb switch.

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Problem 1. Pretty sure that’s a managed switch.
Problem 2. See all the way to the right? Those are the inputs and they generally accept fiber SFP’s.

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yet it worked fine at my old house and it works fine for all the other network cables plugged into the devices in the rack. how is this switch a problem? btw i have a pile of 6 port gig switches and i tried that as well with the same results as the HP.

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It certainly isn’t plug and play.

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i am not sure what you mean here. i plug in a connection and it lights up and connects to the internet. what isn't plug and play about that?

Genuinely curious what issues you think I'm going to run into with this?

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What’s the model number of the switch?

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HP ProCurve 2910-al-24G J9145A

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Ports
20 auto-sensing 10/100/1000 ports :

IEEE 802.3 Type 10Base-T

IEEE 802.3u Type 100Base-TX

IEEE 802.3ab Type 1000Base-T

Media Type :

Auto-MDIX

Duplex: 10Base-T/100Base-TX: half or full

1000Base-T: full only

4 dual-personality ports :

Each port can be used as either an RJ-45 10/100/1000 port or as a mini-GBIC slot (for use with mini-GBIC transceivers)
1 RJ-45 serial console port

Supports a maximum of four 10-GbE ports, with optional module

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