I’ve recently bought a new house and I’m renovating it with my parents. My father organised with electricians to run Ethernet cables to some of the rooms and to move the phone line from the kitchen to the office. They completed the works today and ran everything to one faceplate in my office but the in line is now an Ethernet port. The modem I got from my ISP requires a standard phone line to connect up, and I don’t have any adapter cables. Should I contact the electricianS and get them to redo the cabling? Should I purchase a RJ12 to RJ45 cable?
Yeah, it really depends on what they did on the other end of the cables.
Because if they converted all the jacks to Ethernet, then they probably ran all the cables to a backroom/central location and into an Ethernet Switch and this is the reason why your DSL service doesn’t work (because the phone line into the home is not connected).
Besides your DSL service is there another Internet connection in the home?
Or is the DSL service the only Internet connection in the home and it’s for everyone’s use?
Because if the DSL service is for the whole home to use, then you need to move the DSL modem into the location where the Electricians wired all the Ethernet cables.