home network wiring

jrochie

Hi all,
Firstly I apologize in advance if this is a foolish question.
I'm trying to wire up a couple of the rooms in my house with Cat5e cable. I've bought a 1000ft worth of it. I've also both a few rj45 wall sockets. I have my wireless modem in my sitting room and I want to be able to connect to it in another room on a pc that doesn't have a wireless adapter. I've run a length of cable from near the back of the modem to the other room and near the computer. I wired the each end into 2 rj45 sockets now.

What do I do now? Since the modem is a router, can I just connect a patch cable from that into the socket near that, and the same on the other side? Or do I need something else.. I tried doing that and the socket on the router that i plugged into is now just flashing.. Am I missing something or could it just be a break in the connection somewhere?
Like i said, sorry if this is a stupid question!
Thanks

daftdave

seeing as you already have a wireless router, install this into your pc, and it will hav e wireless connectivity;.

http://cgi.ebay.ie/Netgear-WG311-54Mbps-Wireless-PCI-Adapter-32bit-PCI_W0QQitemZ280387584012QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Computing_Networking_SM?hash=item414867000c&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

or even easier again, is a usb wireless adapter

http://cgi.ebay.ie/Buffalo-802-11g-b-Wireless-High-Speed-USB-LAN-Adapter_W0QQitemZ170372159282QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Computing_Networking_SM?hash=item27aaf8d732&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

jrochie

thanks but seeing as ive bought all the cables and sockets i wanna make use of them..

amcdaniel

Hi,
did you ever sort out this problem?
mc d

jrochie

hi yea i did, it was very simple in the end. i did what i said, i hadn't wired one of the sockets right, one or two wires weren't connected properly, when i fixed that i worked perfect!