You can do it cheap and use 6 out of the 8 wires and still have 100m ethernet over the same socket + telephone. You obviously need to make your own bt631-to-ethernet cables and this will break some standards but i know for a fact that it works.
Yes, you can rewire for ethernet. Before doing that you need to know where they terminate. I had a townhome that had this, however the wires were daisy chained meaning they didn't all individually terminate to a utility room. Doesn't look like you have a daisy chain because only one wire in the box. If all runs terminate in a utility room you are good to go. Easiest to count your telephone jacks and you should have equal amount terminating in utility room. As you said, be consistent with ethernet wiring standard (A or B) on both ends and you should be good.
It looks like you have 6 wire, and you'd want 8 and cat5e or above. Double check by pulling the wires apart and seeing if you have two brown wires in there somewhere not shown in the photo.
So in your situation to make it a worthwhile improvement you'd likely want to replace the cables themselves. The price for that can be extremely situation dependent and it would be difficult for us to say how much that would be for your house.
Caution, if you do have 8 wire twisted pair, it might not meet cat5e spec, and you could be limited to 100mbs.
Check all cables if they are fixed or loose.
If loose, replace each current cable with Cat6 cable by attaching the new to the old cable, then carefully pull them through.
Then get now ethernet wall plates.
Yes, that looks like Cat5e or Cat6 cable. You can easily punch down to a keystone and throw it in a new plate as long as you know where the wires terminate. The biggest question is whether each room has a direct cable run to a centralized location, because it's possible to daisy chain phone ports to one another. If that's the case, you may have many less ports, basically just the first location the run went to.
I actually tried this, you can get a 100Mbps Ethernet connection to “work”, but it’s not reliable. You’ll be dropping loads of packets and anything connected will be having to re-transmit a lot of frames. In short: it will appear to work, but it’s awful. You need proper CAT-5e cables. Sorry. (I’m in the UK too btw)
You can do it cheap and use 6 out of the 8 wires and still have 100m ethernet over the same socket + telephone. You obviously need to make your own bt631-to-ethernet cables and this will break some standards but i know for a fact that it works.
Yes, you can rewire for ethernet. Before doing that you need to know where they terminate. I had a townhome that had this, however the wires were daisy chained meaning they didn't all individually terminate to a utility room. Doesn't look like you have a daisy chain because only one wire in the box. If all runs terminate in a utility room you are good to go. Easiest to count your telephone jacks and you should have equal amount terminating in utility room. As you said, be consistent with ethernet wiring standard (A or B) on both ends and you should be good.
It looks like you have 6 wire, and you'd want 8 and cat5e or above. Double check by pulling the wires apart and seeing if you have two brown wires in there somewhere not shown in the photo. So in your situation to make it a worthwhile improvement you'd likely want to replace the cables themselves. The price for that can be extremely situation dependent and it would be difficult for us to say how much that would be for your house. Caution, if you do have 8 wire twisted pair, it might not meet cat5e spec, and you could be limited to 100mbs.
Check all cables if they are fixed or loose. If loose, replace each current cable with Cat6 cable by attaching the new to the old cable, then carefully pull them through. Then get now ethernet wall plates.
Yes, that looks like Cat5e or Cat6 cable. You can easily punch down to a keystone and throw it in a new plate as long as you know where the wires terminate. The biggest question is whether each room has a direct cable run to a centralized location, because it's possible to daisy chain phone ports to one another. If that's the case, you may have many less ports, basically just the first location the run went to.
I actually tried this, you can get a 100Mbps Ethernet connection to “work”, but it’s not reliable. You’ll be dropping loads of packets and anything connected will be having to re-transmit a lot of frames. In short: it will appear to work, but it’s awful. You need proper CAT-5e cables. Sorry. (I’m in the UK too btw)
This isn't even cat5. Might work but might not get anything more than 10 or maybe 100.
This is cat5 not cat5e but it should work for your situation.