[DJOJDADDY1031]

I just moved into a new rental house with preinstalled ethernet on a leviton distribution board. There are definitely ethernet ports all over the house. I am generally very tech savvy and I attempted to add in my 16 port netgear ethernet switch but the wall ports still are not working. To me it seems like there isnt any power going to the board. I am at a loss here guys what do I do?

 

[Foxbat121]

These are just patch and distribution panels. The blue wires are connected to left side board, a patch panel. The short gray wires connect those ports on left side to the right side board which looks like you can plug in Ethernet cables to. Your switch's 15 ports will connect to those if I'm not mistaken. But I also saw those white patch cables not connect to anything. So it is possible none of the Ethernet ports are connected anywhere which is the case when I moved into my house. You will need a network testing tool to identify which port connect to which patch cable.

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[sam_adams]

Here's the data sheet on the Leviton TLDM and expansion modules. These are passive backplanes that require no power. From your pix, it's currently setup for two phone lines coming in from the Demarc. You are going to need at least a toner—or better yet a wire mapper—to figure out which cables service which rooms.

 

[tmcclure1]

I used to own a house with one of these. You connect the ethernet ports on the board to the switch. You'll need power for the switch, but that is it. Then I just plugged the internet source into one of the wall ports, and it went around the house.

If you have unterminated CAT6 cables in there, it is possible they ran redundant lines. My old house had two lines run to each room, one was terminated and the other wasn't.