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Hello, I just purchased my first house and it has a cabinet of spaghetti in the office and I don’t know what it’s for or how to use it. But it does look expensive so if I can make it useful to me then I’d like to!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Hell 3/4 your job is done. Goldmine…

New switches, that support GB, locate router/ONT/Modem in this box, use the existing cables to distribute gige around the house. Same with the RG6 if you’ll use cable or satellite. Pick a mesh or wifi system and use the existing hard lines for wired back haul. Given the number of ports i suspect the house is decent size…

On the top section the middle is phone, if you won’t use that you can remove those jumpers from the center block.

When I moved into our place i had a cabinet like this 30+ Cat5e lines, about 1/2 unterminated, 1/4 phone, 1/4 ethernet, and the RG6 only 3 or 4 were terminated of about 20. No boxes labeled, and the wires about 1/10th had some magic marker scratching on them. Huge job to trace and locate each one, label, map out the locations, and re-terminate/organize.