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Originally Posted by FordFanatic
I have 6 computers throughout the house that are networked wirelessly. I would love to network them via cables for reliability but I'm too lazy to run wires through the walls. Do you have a link to a guide that shows you how to convert the phone jacks? Also, would you be able to use a router with the phone jacks? (As in a different ip address for each jack?) Or is it a system that requires the use of splitters?
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Depending on how old your building is, the lines to the phone jacks may be Cat5 cables. You can check this by unscrewing the plate, and see if anything looks like a network cable, or if you see 8 wires. If they are cat5, then you'd just need to replace the phone jacks with RJ45 jacks. There should be a central location where all the jacks lead to, you'll need to install RJ45 jacks at that end, as well. Then all you'll need to do is attach the equipment.