Koyaanisqatsi
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So, my wife and I recently moved to Oregon into a lovely cookie-cutter townhouse that has several of these in just about every room:
So, I thought I'd hardwire my TVs and our computers to the Cat5 for internet to save on WiFi overload. We each have iphones and ipads and laptops, etc, and the WiFi upstairs keeps cutting out, so I thought this might be an easy solution to at least better connect the TVs/desktops. The problem is, I'm not getting any signals from the upstairs outlets.
Downstairs was no problem. I plugged the blue Cat5 into the WAN "in" on my Netgear Nighthawk AC1200/R6220 and then ran a Cat5 cable to my downstairs TV and that seems to work just fine as well as another to the clear port on the left of the above picture, figuring that must be the "in" from the router that would then in turn run to the other outlets throughout the home.
Evidently, that's not the case, so what is the female on the left for?
Do I also need to plug in another router upstairs (and connect to the blue) and run Cat5 cables out of the LAN ports up there?
So, I thought I'd hardwire my TVs and our computers to the Cat5 for internet to save on WiFi overload. We each have iphones and ipads and laptops, etc, and the WiFi upstairs keeps cutting out, so I thought this might be an easy solution to at least better connect the TVs/desktops. The problem is, I'm not getting any signals from the upstairs outlets.
Downstairs was no problem. I plugged the blue Cat5 into the WAN "in" on my Netgear Nighthawk AC1200/R6220 and then ran a Cat5 cable to my downstairs TV and that seems to work just fine as well as another to the clear port on the left of the above picture, figuring that must be the "in" from the router that would then in turn run to the other outlets throughout the home.
Evidently, that's not the case, so what is the female on the left for?
Do I also need to plug in another router upstairs (and connect to the blue) and run Cat5 cables out of the LAN ports up there?