@Jawed if you're home is a recently built home, then you might/should see a shallow cabinet mounted between two studs. Their built to fit within the wall studs and come in various vertical lengths depending on how much equipment or connecting equipment is required. They look like the cabinets / enclosures on the following page:
https://www.legrand.ca/structured-wiring/enclosures.aspx
Usually all of the telephone, cable, ethernet and security cabling for the house starts at that cabinet and is spread throughout the house.
If you don't have a cabinet such as that, is the basement finished? if not, you should be able to see the RG-6 and Cat-5e cabling as its descends into the basement. It might not be centrally located or gathered in one place in the basement.
So, the first order of business, depending on how open the basement ceiling is, is a physical search for the rest of the cabling.
Second way to look for the cabling is to use a wire tracer such as the following:
https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/sperry-wire-tracker-and-tracer-0520899p.html
That's a two part device, a transmitter which you connect to the cabling in some fashion, and a mobile receiver to locate the other end of the cabling. That would probably be my next step, potentially tracing with the walls, to locate the other cable ends.
If you look at the cable jacket, you should see the technical details printed on the jacket. It should identify the cable types such as Cat-5e, RG-6, etc.
Did you have a look behind the cable/telephone wallplates in all of the rooms to determine what cables were present behind the wallplate?
Typically contractors might run a Cat-5e and RG-6 up to the wallplate. They might put a connector on one of the cables and just tuck the remaining cables behind the wallplate, for the home owner to discover and put to use. So, as you're doing now, the first order of business is to take stock in every room to determine what cables are present at or behind the wallplate. Next order of business is to trace those cables downstairs. Easier said than done.
Its possible that the remaining cables are buried behind finished walls, which would be a pain. In that case you would need to use a cable tracer, hoping that you can find the other end of the cables.
Are you the original home owner and if so, did you have the home built with Cat-5e and RG-6 cables installed?
And was the basement finished by the same contractor?
For a home built in 2015 there should have been a structured wiring cabinet installed. Perhaps the contractor built over the cabinet, or, removed the cabinet altogether but didn't relocate the cabling, leaving it hanging in the wall space. That I would believe. If you look at the outside of your home, there should be a Rogers and Bell cable box (demarcation point), which is locked down to prevent the homeowner from accessing those boxes. Those boxes house the point where the external cable meets the internal cable system. From those boxes, there should be an RG-6 cable for cable purposes, and a Cat-5e for telephones, which should have run right to the structured wiring cabinet, where all of the other cables would have converged. If you can follow those cables, that might give you some clue as to where the original destination might have been.
Do you have an alarm system and if so, where to the window and door alarm cables run to in the basement?
Happen to have the floor plans available? Those should show the location of the structured wiring cabinet. Worst case situation, I'd call the builder to ask where the cabinet was installed when the home was built.
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@Jawed If you do have structured cabling throughout your home, it should all be home-run to a common location, usually in the basement next to the electrical panel. The cable's jacket will have markings indicating the type of cable that you have; a Category 5 cable will contain 4 pairs of wires.
If I were you, I would also ask my new neighbours if they themselves are original owners. They may have received info packets from the builder, when they took ownership of their home, on who to call to get the existing cables terminated. (You can also try contacting the builder.) If the initial work was done by a cabling contractor, they would probably prefer to terminate the cables (and do other follow-on work) AFTER closing; not only would that work not be covered by the new home warranty but they also would get to keep all of the profits as well rather than sharing it with the builder.
Edit: Sorry for not seeing your previous response before I posted this one.
@Jawed wrote:
In my house, every room has a blank plate with either a blue Cat 5e wire or white coax cable wire. I think it's like that so I can turn them into use for when I want. Which I want to do now. My biggest issue is not being able to locate this cabinet or a certain place where the wires all meet up. I also have a demarcation point as you mentioned but I didn't see anything that seemed interesting. I also checked in my furnace room, I saw 2 very long Ethernet cables just hanging. I couldn't trace those because they just go deep into the ceiling. I'll link a few pictures below.
Cat 5e - https://i.imgur.com/YmFtef0.jpg
RJ6 - https://i.imgur.com/ngxBqm3.jpg
Circuit breaker area - https://i.imgur.com/OgHT8tR.jpg
Demarcation point - https://i.imgur.com/qXypxsT.jpg
Do you have the blue (Cat 5) cables in several boxes throughout your home? If so, I would expect all of them to run to a common location somewhere. If that's the only box with blue Cat 5 cables, then the other end could be the two cables that you mentioned hanging down in your furnace room.
The white coax cables should also run to a common location as well.
You actually have Rogers fibre running into your home to what you show as the "Demarcation point". From there, a fibre optic cable connects to an RFoG ONU (in your Circuit breaker area) which converts the incoming fibre to coax, to which you can connect a cable modem, cable set-top boxes, etc.
If you follow the black coax cable from the RFoG ONU, you said that it disappeared but do you you see anything else like it anywhere in your basement? Does it go up through the floor to where your cable modem is located or does it run through your basement and connect to a white coax cable that, in turn, runs to a wall outlet elsewhere in your home?
@-G- there should be a bundle of cables sitting in a structured wiring cabinet waiting for connector installation, only problem is, there's no sign of the cabinet or any of the cables that one would expect. I suspect that the basement finishing contractor may have removed the cabinet, left the cables hanging in the wall space and simply installed gyproc over the wallspace. End result, no cabinet and no cables visible. You can't miss a bunch of cables like you would typically find in a new home these days, unless of course their out of sight for some reason.
@Datalink wrote:
@-G- there should be a bundle of cables sitting in a structured wiring cabinet waiting for connector installation, only problem is, there's no sign of the cabinet or any of the cables that one would expect. I suspect that the basement finishing contractor may have removed the cabinet, left the cable hanging in the wall space and simply installed gyproc over the wallspace. End result, no cabinet and no cables visible. You can't miss a bunch of cables like you would typically find in a new home these days, unless of course their out of sight for some reason.
Yeah, I agree.... unless there's only one box with Cat 5 cable running to it, with the other end(s) hanging down in the furnace room. Also another reason to check with the neighbours to see what they have installed in their home.
@Jawed wrote:
I'm pretty sure the black cable wire connects to the demarcation point outside my house.
Well, somehow, directly or indirectly, the coax cable from the back of your cable modem will connect to that black coax cable that is connected to the Aurora Networks SDU RFoG CPE box. (SDU = Single Dwelling Unit ; RFoG = Radio Frequency over Glass ; CPE = Customer Premises Equipment)
There are two black cables in question, one is an RG-6 cable that feeds the modem, and the other is a fibre cable that connects to the fibre installation outside. That fibre cable might be the one that is curled up, sitting above the circuit breaker panel. Just a matter of looking at each black cable connected to the fibre CPE in the basement to see where they go.
Do you own a bungalow ( main floor plus basement) or two story home (upstairs, main floor, basement)?
Cat 5e is already an Ethernet cable so i was confused by the topic.
Rogers does not support in-house wiring or fishing wires but you got some great advice by community members. but to answer your problem, if you have 3 Cat5e Ethernet jacks but can only find one wire in your basement, its probably best to hire a proper telecommunications cable technician they can trace the wires for you or find out if new wires must be run.
Rogers does not support in-house wiring or fishing wires but you got some great advice by community members. but to answer your problem, if you have 3 Cat5e Ethernet jacks but can only find one wire in your basement, its probably best to hire a proper telecommunications cable technician they can trace the wires for you or find out if new wires must be run.
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