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Nov 06, 2009
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33 / M / San Francisco, CA
OK, so here is my followup question to home networking. I've noticed that my house is actually wired for what looks like CAT5 (see jack: http://tinypic.com/r/107t1k7/4) . There's jacks like in every room and my suspicion is that they connect downstairs and terminate in the following cable ( http://tinypic.com/r/2ed5c93/4) , which is currently cut off and not connecting to anything: http://tinypic.com/r/2a7sw91/4 .

What do I do? How do I get this hooked up to the Internet or is it even possible to do so?

Thanks!!
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    If it is CAT5 and it looks like it is, it's definitely possible, I've done it myself, when I lived in a house with a central box everything was wired into, the phone jacks were all RJ45 instead of RJ11, so I just wired the cable modem to the box and rewired some of the phone jacks.
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    33 / M / San Francisco, CA
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