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Originally Posted by ResQme
If I understand you correctly:
1. During Design Review, you only requested two runs: one to Living Room TV, second to Lanai. (Hindsight is 20/20, but why didn't you add a run to your "office"?)
2. You don't see any RJ45 data jack in your office. (are you sure about this?)
3. You then discovered there are 6 Cat-6 wires in your LVP (and you terminated all of them)
4. You went up to the attic to try and see where the six cables lead to, but you can only get so far, and can't determine exactly where the other four go to.
I believe your options are:
1. Hire a handyman or electrician to trace the wires. If you get the right guy, you'd be amazed at where they can get to up in the attic.
2. Hire a handyman or electrician to run a new cable to exactly where you want to put your office jack.
3. Use wireless/wireless mesh instead.
Sorry, this is a tough one, and I think you'll end up shelling out money if you really want hardwire. I know someone who may be able to help you with either option 1 or 2, and I don't think it'll cost you $200 or more, but I can't speak for him. Let me know if you want his name and number.
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All good information.
Again, I don't believe it's legal or to code to leave wires unterminated in the wall so if you don't see any jacks, there are no wires hidden in the walls. The Villages used to put jacks in all the rooms but they don't do that now unless you specify it with the build or get the Smart Home package.
All that said, if I were you, if there is no ethernet jack in the rooms you want one, just get your own Mesh WiFi system. Amazon Eero, Netgear Orbi, and TP-Link Deco are recommended because they all have a ethernet switch on all the nodes that you can plug into and from past experience they all work well. If you have the money, get a WiFi-7 system so you future proof your home. If not, the Wifi 6E systems work well and will be cheaper.
Whatever system you purchase, you will need to plug it into the Centric Fiber router if you got that service and it should all work. But if you do that, call Centric and ask them to turn Off the Wifi on their device so you don't get WiFi interference from it with your new system. If you are DIYer, Google how to log into the Centric router yourself and you can do all that as well including putting the device in transparent bypass mode so you are not double routing.
In reality, with today's WiFi Mesh systems in homes here in the Villages, you don't need to spend money running ethernet cables to rooms to hardwire devices. If you happen to already have the ethernet runs and jacks, then use them. As far as hiring an electrician to run a wire, they generally get $175 for the first hour plus supplies and I don't think the charge will be only one hour. AND you really don't want someone running around your attic messing up all the blown-in insulation so just easier to get a Mesh system and call it a day.
Hope this helps.