Browse Forums General Discussion Re: How to use Metricon LAN cabling 3Sep 11, 2021 11:51 pm Accessible Carpentry & Cabinets accessiblecarpentry@gmail.com accessiblecarpentry.com.au https://www.facebook.com/pages/Accessible-Carpentry-Cabinets/583314911709039 Re: Metricon LAN cabling - still need help 9Sep 12, 2021 3:15 pm Try sending some of these posters a message. Sounds like they have Metricon data packages so may know better. viewtopic.php?f=31&t=102211 Accessible Carpentry & Cabinets accessiblecarpentry@gmail.com accessiblecarpentry.com.au https://www.facebook.com/pages/Accessible-Carpentry-Cabinets/583314911709039 Re: How to use Metricon LAN cabling 10Sep 12, 2021 3:17 pm chippy Each LAN point has to run back to a central point as an individual cable. So if there are 4 points around the house they will run back to one place that you then connect to your switch or modem. I suspect that there is a patch panel or location somewhere that the LAN point in the garage runs to that also has all the individual LAN points. Basically you should have the NBN point attached to a modem that the uses a switch or it's inbuilt ethernet points that connect into the various LAN points that are distributed across the house. Hi Chippy - This is what I have been trying to explain to the owner / agent. You need routing hardware. Having read about at least one package from Metricon that includes a gigabit router, I thought that was how it would work. Hide that away somewhere and then you CAN "just plug it in". In that case the patch panel, or even just a bunch of LAN cables zip tied together somewhere being fed into a switch. I've been in the ceiling now. Found the TV antenna splitter, right beside the ceiling access point, but I cannot see anything LAN related. If the owner is not going to live there and none of the sales people really understand the data cabling options, then they might be saying something like "it's an extra $1500 to get extra hardware", "no, I'll just get the basics...". If there is no router/switch and no visible patch panel, it really seems like they've done half a job to me. It would be like installing all the light switches and wiring throughout and then not connecting to the mains at the front of the house, of course nothing would work! Re: Metricon LAN cabling - still need help 11Sep 12, 2021 3:17 pm I can't see the connections being in the ceiling. That would just be totally impractical. Accessible Carpentry & Cabinets accessiblecarpentry@gmail.com accessiblecarpentry.com.au https://www.facebook.com/pages/Accessible-Carpentry-Cabinets/583314911709039 Re: Metricon LAN cabling - still need help 12Sep 12, 2021 3:22 pm Chuckles99 chippy Each LAN point has to run back to a central point as an individual cable. So if there are 4 points around the house they will run back to one place that you then connect to your switch or modem. I suspect that there is a patch panel or location somewhere that the LAN point in the garage runs to that also has all the individual LAN points. Basically you should have the NBN point attached to a modem that the uses a switch or it's inbuilt ethernet points that connect into the various LAN points that are distributed across the house. Hi Chippy - This is what I have been trying to explain to the owner / agent. You need routing hardware. Having read about at least one package from Metricon that includes a gigabit router, I thought that was how it would work. Hide that away somewhere and then you CAN "just plug it in". In that case the patch panel, or even just a bunch of LAN cables zip tied together somewhere being fed into a switch. I've been in the ceiling now. Found the TV antenna splitter, right beside the ceiling access point, but I cannot see anything LAN related. If the owner is not going to live there and none of the sales people really understand the data cabling options, then they might be saying something like "it's an extra $1500 to get extra hardware", "no, I'll just get the basics...". If there is no router/switch and no visible patch panel, it really seems like they've done half a job to me. It would be like installing all the light switches and wiring throughout and then not connecting to the mains at the front of the house, of course nothing would work! You are right. You can't just split the one data point in the garage into several seperate data points around the house without having a switch to handle it. That's why you'd assume that there is a central panel somewhere that the modem or switch can be installed. Typically it's in a cabinet (WIR, pantry, linen etc) or in the garage. Accessible Carpentry & Cabinets accessiblecarpentry@gmail.com accessiblecarpentry.com.au https://www.facebook.com/pages/Accessible-Carpentry-Cabinets/583314911709039 Re: Metricon LAN cabling - still need help 13Sep 12, 2021 3:29 pm chippy I can't see the connections being in the ceiling. That would just be totally impractical. 100% agreed. There are 4 LAN points inside the house. Garage Downstairs Lounge Upstairs Lounge Upstairs Cupboard next to security panel There is no patch panel and no sort of cabinet aside from the security one and the one that NBNCo installed in the garage 7 months after the build was completed. Plugging in a device to any one of those LAN points does nothing at all. I can see some LAN cables in the ceiling space of the second floor, so I feel that at the very least I have confirmed they are not just face plates installed in the wall with nothing behind them. I cannot find where the other ends of those cables are, and am now totally pained in to a corner. Responsibilities have been split so many times that it doesn't work, and no one can / will tell me why, and as the tenant, that's now just my problem. Sales don't really understand the product Metricon offer ZERO documentation on it They outsource the work to sub contractors Once the house is built - all issues go through service/warranty Covid means no site visits I've been asking them to help me since March. It's a bit rough! Re: Metricon LAN cabling - SOLVED 14Sep 12, 2021 4:31 pm Patch panel "hiding in plain sight". Or I just wasn't switched on enough to see it. As previously mentioned, there are four data points in my house, you can see one below, it has a picture of a computer with the number 6 next to it (CAT6 presumably). Looked in every cupboard and every room, even in the ceiling space. No where!!! Metricon Data PointRF antenna / Cat6 Data point Circa 2020Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Until the wife pointed out that one of the network points actually had a bunch of sockets on it. I had written them off because the first time I saw them, I figured it was just for a bunch of devices. No - It's the patch panel. Metricon Patch Panel4x Cat6 (circa 2020) where all of the other data sockets are wired to, including one less than a metre away... Plug these into your router / switch and the plugs at the other end will work.Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Tested it out and I've got full speed internet in the upstairs of my house for the first time since the NBN was installed!!! Thanks for all the tips and suggestions guys, if it weren't for you, I wouldn't have solved it. DIY, Home Maintenance & Repair Brilliant - thanks so much for that. 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