I’ve recently bought a new house and I’m renovating it with my parents. My father organised with electricians to run Ethernet cables to some of the rooms and to move the phone line from the kitchen to the office. They completed the works today and ran everything to one faceplate in my office but the in line is now an Ethernet port. The modem I got from my ISP requires a standard phone line to connect up, and I don’t have any adapter cables. Should I contact the electricianS and get them to redo the cabling? Should I purchase a RJ12 to RJ45 cable?

  • Think_Ad_9915@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    ethernet ports can work for internet provided its a straight through connection pin 1-1 2-2 3-3 and so on

    Is the other end connected properly? if just internet the modem feed should be the only thing connected to the ISP “in” line

  • LocalAreaNitwit@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    RJ12 is physically compatible with RJ45 so you can still plug in. The trick is how the RJ45 port has been wired. No harm in trying

  • TropicPine@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    You will get better feedback if you unscrew the faceplate and post a picture of the back of the newly installed jack, a copy of any text you can read on the cable and whatever is at the other end of the cable.

    You can plug a phone cord (rj11 or rj12) into an ethernet jack. Over time, you can bend the pins in the ethernet jack doing this, but fixing this is easy.

  • jacle2210@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Yeah, it really depends on what they did on the other end of the cables.

    Because if they converted all the jacks to Ethernet, then they probably ran all the cables to a backroom/central location and into an Ethernet Switch and this is the reason why your DSL service doesn’t work (because the phone line into the home is not connected).

    Besides your DSL service is there another Internet connection in the home?

    Or is the DSL service the only Internet connection in the home and it’s for everyone’s use?

    Because if the DSL service is for the whole home to use, then you need to move the DSL modem into the location where the Electricians wired all the Ethernet cables.