It sounds like your cat5 is your pots line. Do you know how many drops per outlet are there? If you have only one I would bet your phone is on the cat5 and you can't do that. There are tricks to fixing this you would have to wire half of you cat 5 drop for telco and the other half for network. Telco only uses one pair computer will only use 2 pair. I have done this many times but it's not easy if you don't understand how it works. You will have to use a 110 punch down splice to make it work and make it clean.
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Here are the pics of the incoming cat-5 setup I have. If someone can view them and give me an idea to what kind of installation it is and how to go about reconfiguring it to get internet from upstairs router to the downstairs HR-21, as mentioned in my original post.
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The second pic is the wallplate in my office where my router is. The downstairs wallplate where the HR-21 is, only has one ethernet/phone jack, but since I don't order PPV movies, I don't have the phone line connected to the HR-21. Thanks again guys for your input.
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Sorry about not replying guys. I had the unfortunate luck of lightning striking my satellite dish on Tuesday 
and wiping out mostly everything that was in that control panel (the pics in the above post) where the telephone and satellite cables come together (gotta love living in Florida!). It wiped out one of my HR-21 receivers, the LNB's on the dish, the multi-switch, and anything that was connected to the phone lines (DSL modem and router included). Even the AT&T repair guy said in all the years he's been doing repairs, he's never seen a network interface pretty much get blown off the side of the house before! Luckily, no fires or major appliances were harmed! (Although, we all could use another plasma TV around the house! :lol: ) I will finish straightening out the rest of my problems that mother nature has destroyed, and will hopefully continue my quest to connect my HR-21 to On Demand via the cat-5 cables as mentioned in the above posts by sometime next week. So, to all who have helped me up to this point, I would just like to say thanks. And as Arnold would say..."I'LL BE BACK!"
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and wiping out mostly everything that was in that control panel (the pics in the above post) where the telephone and satellite cables come together (gotta love living in Florida!). It wiped out one of my HR-21 receivers, the LNB's on the dish, the multi-switch, and anything that was connected to the phone lines (DSL modem and router included). Even the AT&T repair guy said in all the years he's been doing repairs, he's never seen a network interface pretty much get blown off the side of the house before! Luckily, no fires or major appliances were harmed! (Although, we all could use another plasma TV around the house! :lol: ) I will finish straightening out the rest of my problems that mother nature has destroyed, and will hopefully continue my quest to connect my HR-21 to On Demand via the cat-5 cables as mentioned in the above posts by sometime next week. So, to all who have helped me up to this point, I would just like to say thanks. And as Arnold would say..."I'LL BE BACK!" Carl524
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