How to activate my RJ45 sockets?

Hello,

In the first photo, in the middle left, you have the fiber arrival point, the PTO (Optical Termination Point). This is connected by a green-ended fiber cable (your second photo) to the ONT (which converts the optical signal - fiber - into an electrical signal - Ethernet). From the ONT, a red-ended Ethernet cable goes to patch panel No. 1 (third photo). This patch panel should correspond to the wall socket in the living room to which the box is connected. This connection is used to bring internet to the box. It does not allow internet distribution to the other wall sockets.

On the patch panels, ports 2 to 8 (it would be better to see them) there should be small cords that are connected to each other (a sort of octopus) that go to the DTI. The DTI and these cords were only used for ADSL/Telephony. They are no longer used. You need to remove all these cords and not use them for Ethernet.

In principle, the box should have been installed in this communication box, so we would have connected the Ethernet outputs of the box to the patch panels feeding the wall sockets.

In a property with a building permit since 2016, there should be 2 wall sockets in the living room. Then we connect an Ethernet cable from one output of the box to this second wall socket. This should connect to patch panel No. 2. On this patch panel, we connect a Switch (Ethernet port multiplier) which will allow us to power patch panels 3 to 8, and the corresponding wall sockets.

Without a second socket in the living room, it's impossible to route the network down to the communication box to supply all the wall sockets.

First of all, thank you very much for this explanation.

If I understood correctly, I need to unplug sockets 2 to 8.

In my living room, I have a standard ethernet socket as well as a socket with a telephone symbol (I feel like they look similar?). Is this what you're referring to?

You need to make sure that this second socket is indeed an RJ45. This should be verified visually. That would be good news.

Then connect an Ethernet cable between an output of the box and this second wall socket. Then do a test by connecting a PC directly to the patch panel. With a bit of luck, it’s the No. 2. Or could there be numbers on the wall sockets?

This test should help validate the network return to the communication box.

Thank you, I will try this tomorrow.

There are indeed numbers on the wall sockets, the one in my living room being number 1, on the panel it is connected to a red cable (different from the others). One silly question, for the verification, do I unplug the cable and connect it to my PC or do I plug in a new Ethernet cable?

Hello,

I just tried and there is indeed a port that works!
If I understand correctly, all I need to do is buy a switch, connect it to this port, and then connect Ethernet cables from the patch panel to the switch?

By staying in one room connecting the two ports, it works! So I’m ordering the switch.
However, when I tested it the first time I was at about 600mbps down and since then I'm stuck at 90mbps, it might be because of my cable?
In any case, I thank you so much, you’ve helped me a lot!!

No, 600 mb/s in the box and also testing in one room, since then it has been stuck at 90 mb/s even when testing in other rooms.

I tested by connecting directly to my box and there I found a speed of 600.

However, I noticed that one of the Ethernet lights on my box directly connected to the RJ45 socket was off, maybe something I unplugged in the box or an installation issue?

I see, so I can't find the problem and why I lost so much bandwidth since my cables are working

I tested several cables and several outlets, whether in a room or directly connected to the patch panel, the speed remains the same; unfortunately, I cannot find a solution :(

Thank you very much for helping me.

Yes, the first time, whether it's through brewing or taking, I'm at 90mbps.

I plug an Ethernet cable into my PC and then I test on Speedtest, I also tested with a console and Ethernet and I got the same 90mbps.

Moreover, in the ethernet connection properties on my computer, the connection speed is 100/100 mbps

Hello siyak,

If you're getting 600 Mbps by connecting your PC directly to the Box and 90 Mbps by connecting to the RJ45 sockets in the rooms, it definitely points to an issue with your installation:

Either the cables in the walls are 4-wire, or the RJ45 sockets are not wired correctly, as jee pee pointed out to you.

You need to check each RJ45 socket and each cable in the walls.

This is the whole problem of wanting to upgrade to high speed with an installation designed for telephony...

Even when connecting to the switch, I'm still limited to 100mbps. So I feel like I don't really have a solution, thank you for the help.

You said above:

I tested by connecting directly to my box and there I get a speed of 600.

So directly from the box you have 600 Mbps and at the patch panel you have 100 Mbps:

There is therefore a problem between the box output and the patch panel...

If I understood correctly, your internet signal coming out of the box goes to the patch panel to be distributed to the rooms; it might be this cable that has 4 wires or the RJ45 sockets not wired correctly, which limits your speed to 100 Mbps.

Please check this cable (the number of wires) and the wiring of the RJ45 sockets.

PS: sorry jee pee I hadn't seen your reply, we're saying the same thing

Hello,

The beginning returned to normal a few hours later and since then there have been no more issues. I didn't really understand the problem, but anyway! Since then, I have completed the entire installation, including the switch, and everything is working very well. Thank you, you have been very helpful!