I just got a PS5 for my girlfriend, but her WiFi is super spotty. I’m trying to set up a wired connection for her in the Family Room. The installation label shows 4 rooms under ‘Data,’ but the Family Room isn’t one of them. The other rooms have two Cat 5e cables each—one for Ethernet and one for Telephone. The Family Room only has one white port labeled Cat 5e. Can I rewire this cable for Ethernet? Would I just plug it into the router? Thanks for any help! (And please don’t judge the setup, it was Spectrum…)
If it was me, I’d pull the one labeled for Family off the punch down, put an end on it, and plug it into the router. Then just plug in the Ethernet in the Family Room and see if it works. If not, it might not be punched down correctly behind the wall plate. Home Depot or Lowe’s will have the tools and parts you need.
Awesome, I’ll give that a shot! Thanks for the reply!
Not sure what’s going on there. Are the data cables coming out of the wall above the wiring box? I see the modem connected to a WiFi router. You can identify a data cable that runs to the room with the PS5 and plug it into the modem. After that, plug the WiFi router into the wall jack. If you’re not sure which cable is which, just try each one until it lights up on the modem.
Thanks for the tips! All the cables in the bottom holes go to the rooms, except the coax going into the modem. The top left cables are just extensions to the wall plate above.
Ok, and yes, you might be able to repurpose the telephone cable as Ethernet. Tell us what the wire jacket says—it should have enough conductors for Ethernet. You’d need to remove it from the bus for telephone, replace the plug with an Ethernet plug, and then replace the socket in the room. You’ll need a crimping tool for that.
Dang, this is where having a toner helps, so you could tone back from the room. But it’s weird because there are more labels than jacks. I think one of the labels might be coax instead of data/telephone. Do you know where the cables sticking out of the wall above the box go?