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hasa12
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Ethernet Wall socket Help

Hi, I have a Gig1 fibre hub. I want to connect my PC (running Windows 11) to it via an ethernet cable in the wall socket, but it seems that I get no ethernet when using the wall sockets, as when I ch...
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  • goslow's avatar
    goslow
    2 years ago

    You could firstly take the lid off the box in photo 2 and confirm that an ethernet cable is actually wired to the faceplate.

    If there is, locate any other ethernet sockets in your home which you think might connect to the faceplate in photo 2.

    Use a simple cable tester to match one end of a cable with its other end

    https://www.screwfix.com/p/philex-network-cable-tester/93219

    The above is a generic item so you don't have to get it from Screwfix. You can probably find the same item under different brand names (and possibly cheaper) from the likes of eBay, Amazon etc. This is just for testing a length of cable from one end to the other so it won't work through active network equipment such as a switch etc.

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hasa12
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2 years ago

Thanks for the response. 
the second picture image shows the socket (to which I connected the router to) that I assumed was the source As it was located in that utility cabinet/ area where my wifi was set up.

As those cables are behind the wall I’d have a hard time tracing them to the source; if you could point me in the right direction as to how I could track them, it would be much appreciated 

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goslow
Alessandro Volta
2 years ago

You could firstly take the lid off the box in photo 2 and confirm that an ethernet cable is actually wired to the faceplate.

If there is, locate any other ethernet sockets in your home which you think might connect to the faceplate in photo 2.

Use a simple cable tester to match one end of a cable with its other end

https://www.screwfix.com/p/philex-network-cable-tester/93219

The above is a generic item so you don't have to get it from Screwfix. You can probably find the same item under different brand names (and possibly cheaper) from the likes of eBay, Amazon etc. This is just for testing a length of cable from one end to the other so it won't work through active network equipment such as a switch etc.

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    hasa12
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    2 years ago

    Thanks for the response

    I removed the plate, and this is what I saw,

    i assume I have to do the wiring for it but i have no idea

     

     

    • goslow's avatar
      goslow
      Alessandro Volta
      2 years ago

      The thing you have in your hand looks like a filtered telephone faceplate which allows you to connect a phone and a router to a telephone line without having to plug in a DSL broadband filter.

      So that isn't an ethernet distribution cable within you home it looks like it is for an Openreach connection, I think.

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        Adduxi
        Very Insightful Person
        2 years ago

        Agree, and it looks like there is nothing connected to it.