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I assume I can add my modem and router in there somehow to make things alot easier for myself, but I just don't know where and don't want to screw anything up. Right now I've got Sonos, Slingbox, and Linksys NSLU2 attached to my router. How does your internet get to the room where your router is located? If so, does the cable come in to the panel downstairs and hit a 2-way splitter, with 1 leg going to the room where the cable modem is and the other leg going to the amplifier which then feeds the TV outlets?
Presently, IBM has authorized integrators across the country and is in the process of broadening this base. In my earlier post I stated that the yellow cables are telephone and the blue ones are ethernet. When I stated that the 'accessories' do not exist anymore I was referring to network modules etc. that they originally offered and had on their site, which don't exist anymore.
Home Network Connection Center
In order to log this waymark in this category, you must be able to provide proof of your visit. Please post a picture of yourself or your GPSr in front some identifiable feature or point of interest either in the museum, or on the museum grounds. Also you might to start labeling cables so you know where the cable services.. You're gonna have cable boxes at each TV -- no way around that.
Now, go ahead and connect it to the cable modem with the power unplugged. After a minute or two, plug in the power on the router upstairs. Do a network rewire, install a port network switch and run the network from that, connecting to that, with a further 8-16 port switch to cover your telephone sub system... it's unusual not to get documents pertaining to the wired structure of the home entertainment setup so any storage boxes you have you need to start sifting through to locate wiring schematics.. Comparing your pictures with documentation on their website, though, it appears that the blue cables are plugged into a telephone module.
System Overview; Home Network Connection Center; Cables And Wires - IBM Classic Series Homeowner's Manual
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So basically, to you guys its a standard structured wiring bnox, but to hit all the dead ends I keep hitting with this thing is really frustrating. For now I'd like to imropove ethernet connection points around the house, inactive points despite numerous outlets. What you need to understand is how many cables are at each location, are there two colors? Open up a telephone jack or network jack and see if there are similar colors, ie. NO one makes a good router for the structured wiring cabinets, I always use 3rd party products for networking. As for the cable splitters in there, they most likely don't pass high enough frequencys for alot of HD, thats why that 3 way splitter is in there to break off the cables that are feeding HD boxes.
IBM touts Home Director
If so, just move your cable modem downstairs and connect it to the 2-way splitter in place of the cable that goes up to that room. Then connect a CAT5e patch cord from the cable modem to the router. If you're doing wireless, you might want to use the WRT54G there and connect 4 outlets to the router. One of them, of course, has to be the outlet where your WRT100, etc. are. That should give you internet in 3 rooms in addition to where your gear already is located. Through the creation of a new Authorized Home Systems Integrator program, IBM has developed a unique distribution channel that provides local installation, service and support for IBM Home Director systems.
Yes the cables are labelled as are the outlets, but how to attach 3rd party router etc. to this mix is where I draw a blank. I guess I'll just bite the bullet and get a professional to take care of it. To be fair, I really don't know that you would get documentation on the modules from any installer. The best you could hope for was documentation regarding the labeling of the wires.
All controlled through a simple, easy-to-use interface on any television or PC in the home. When building a home media setup i'd probably look at a server mounted in a 19" rack wired with tv and sat cards using a myth tv type server with clients with myth tv type front end, cat6 the whole house and myth type boxes... "This is an important wave of the future, the way homes are going to be wired," Raschke said, adding that home networking systems are gaining in popularity in mid-range homes. "It started as a 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous' kind of thing," Raschke said. "What we've done is figure out how to make the network affordable."
In my earlier post I stated that the yellow cables are telephone and the blue ones are ethernet. "In developing Home Director, we looked at how traditional home systems were being installed and identified the key aspects that deliver the greatest benefits to home owners," said Mary Walker, General Manager of IBM Home Networking. Routers have 5 ports -- four of them are together and one of them is by itself.
For now I'd like to imropove ethernet connection points around the house, inactive points despite numerous outlets. Don't know if this entails adding modem and router or just one of the two to the home director. Just want to do what it was designed to do basically, cable/video distribution without multiple cable boxes, etc. I thought this was something I could do myself, but since I was made to believe that it was so hopeless, I thought of replacing it. The accessories do not exist anymore, the comany doesn't offfer them, now does ebay. Cable company nor two installers I tried could make head nor tails or it.
Combined with the innovative design of the Home Director solution, the average home buyer is now able, for the first time, to purchase a home networking system that is customizable for their needs – yet does not require a special hardware configuration. Yes its a cable modem, and its the Time Warner techs that rewired the box to add that amplifier that you see in the pics. All connections to the house run to that box then distibuted out to the rest of the house.
If yuou have basic or expanded basic only, then boxes are needed. If you have cable/telephone you are taking advantage of everything you have. Looks as though your local cable guy has made some changes to the install and a seperate 4 way splitter feeding things. Looking at your panel, its just a structured panel, with a video amplifier, punched down telephone.
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