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Old 01-23-2009, 04:52 PM   #26
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Originally Posted by Presto View Post
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.
I pulled a jack and it is indeed network cable. Trouble is I can't find a central location that they all lead to. Unless it's outside beside my cable box. Where in your house did you find yours? (So I can get an idea of where to look.)
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