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I only have WiFi but want to have WiFi + Ethernet/MoCA in my house
I'm a first-time home owner + new to TELUS so I don't have much experience yet with home networking. My Fiber is entering in through the basement ( Imgur: The magic of the Internet- first image)....
You can terminate those blue cables with RJ45 jacks in each room and with RJ45 plugs in the basement.
I'll assume you want to keep the router in the living room for better WiFi coverage and that you have an RJ11 (soon to be RJ45) jack in the living room.
Buy a 5 port unmanaged gigabit switch and put it in the basement.
Connect like this:
Router LAN --> RJ45 living room --- RJ45 basement --> switch port 1
Room 1 RJ45--RJ45 basement--> switch port 2
Room 2 RJ45--RJ45 basement--> switch port 3
Room 3 RJ45--RJ45 basement--> switch port 4
Room 4 RJ45--RJ45 basement--> switch port 5
Nighthawk
Community Power User
Community Power UserThe way the coax is set up, the other outlets won't work properly for it and they wouldn't be on the same network as the Wifi Hub is. The hub is the main router.
On the first photo, it looks like there are several blue ethernet cables where the ONT is located. They're just missing the plastic clips on the ends / not terminated in a patch panel. If those blue ethernet cables are used as phone lines, and you don't have a landline, it wouldn't take much to rewire the phone jacks from RJ11 to RJ45. Is there a phone jack bear where the Wi-Fi Hub is located in the living room? Are you also sure there are no ethernet jacks anywhere? I'm not used to seeing the phone lines just dangling loose in the basement.
I have 5 RJ11 outlets (1 in each room) which all look pretty much identical to this Imgur: The magic of the Internet
Since on the second cable the same blue cable is visible, does that mean my house is already wired for ethernet, but I just need to have the jacks re-wired? I wasn't able to find any RJ45 outlets in the house.
