JasonChildress
July 7th, 2007, 01:03 AM
I setup a home network, or at least I set it up properly, and I'm trying to share my internet connection with all PC in my house. I don't want to have one PC host the internet connection over the network. I want the internet feed to come directly from my router.
Here's how it's setup:
I have CAT5e wire running from a network jack (wall plate) in every room in to a patch panel in my basement. I have tested each connection from the wall plates to the wires to the patch panel and can verify that all connections are installed properly and working. From the patch panel I have each room running into a 16 port switch (6 rooms total). Again, I tested and verified that all cables going into the switch are working (I can see the link and activity lights for each wire plugged into the switch). From my office, where I have my cable modem, I'm running the cable modem into a Linksys wireless router, and from the jacks in the back of the router, to the wall plate in that room. So the internet connection is running into the switch. Or at least I thought this is the way it should work. I verified this by going down to the patch panel and getting an internet connection from there.
Here's my problem:
Even though any computer that I plug into a wall plate in any room can get an IP address, which I'm told is because the PC is finding the router through the switch, I still can't get any of these computers onto the internet. I know I have my network settings on the computers setup properly becuase each computer can get online either by wireless or thru an ethernet cable attached directly to the router.
So my questions are:
Where is the connection going bad?
Is it the switch or the router that's ignoring the internet connection?
Do I even have the correct setup?
Is using a switch the correct thing to do?
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Jason
Here's how it's setup:
I have CAT5e wire running from a network jack (wall plate) in every room in to a patch panel in my basement. I have tested each connection from the wall plates to the wires to the patch panel and can verify that all connections are installed properly and working. From the patch panel I have each room running into a 16 port switch (6 rooms total). Again, I tested and verified that all cables going into the switch are working (I can see the link and activity lights for each wire plugged into the switch). From my office, where I have my cable modem, I'm running the cable modem into a Linksys wireless router, and from the jacks in the back of the router, to the wall plate in that room. So the internet connection is running into the switch. Or at least I thought this is the way it should work. I verified this by going down to the patch panel and getting an internet connection from there.
Here's my problem:
Even though any computer that I plug into a wall plate in any room can get an IP address, which I'm told is because the PC is finding the router through the switch, I still can't get any of these computers onto the internet. I know I have my network settings on the computers setup properly becuase each computer can get online either by wireless or thru an ethernet cable attached directly to the router.
So my questions are:
Where is the connection going bad?
Is it the switch or the router that's ignoring the internet connection?
Do I even have the correct setup?
Is using a switch the correct thing to do?
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Jason