Basically, if you have RJ45-terminated wires going inside the house, ethernet only uses 4 of the 8 wires in the cable. Use the other 4 to send power out from inside to a router or switch which happens to be on the outside of your house. If the outside box is too small to hold a router or switch, you may need to replace it with a larger enclosure. Assuming you have the right to place a new box outside where these lines terminate that would be large enough to hold a switch or router, you could do that. Amazon (and others) have lots of weatherproof enclosures from which to choose. You could use one of the ethernet lines to provide power, either as a traditional barrel-plug or as a POE connection. A simple barrel-plug-to RJ45 adapter, like this https://www.amazon.com/BeElion-Passive-Injector-Splitter-Connector/dp/B01HMNJHII or https://www.amazon.com/Waterproof-Injector-Splitter-5-52-1mm-Ethernet/dp/B01MS9K6EX would provide you with the means to send power outside from an outlet over one of the ethernet cables (whether or not that particular wire was being used to carry data).
Does this make sense? Gibson Prichard Nashville, TN [email protected] On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 11:03 PM, Jack Coats <[email protected]> wrote: > Looking for some input here... > > My house is pre-wired for ethernet. All the connections are > terminated in a box on the outside of my house. My ISP provides an > ethernet connection to that box, but there is little room and no > power. > What is a reasonable way to get my other ethernet connections 'lit' ? > There is no place where two of the ethernet connections terminate near > each other inside the house (so I could put my router there). > > I am open to suggestions or 'best practices'. > > -- > ><> ... Jack > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscribe@ > googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/ > group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
