Reddit reviews 1 Port Ethernet Wall Plate - ESYLink Cat6 Ethernet Cable Wall Plate Female to Female - White

Get low voltage old work brackets like this:

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Carlon-1-Gang-Non-Metallic-Low-Voltage-Old-Work-Bracket-SC100RR/100160916

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Trace a rectangle on the wall and cut out with a drywall saw. Pretty easy to keep within the trim on the bracket, but the wall plate will cover more as well. From there, it's up to you. You could get a normal wall blank and drill a hole in it to run a wire through. You could get something like these that allow an assortment of wires to come through:

https://www.amazon.com/Wi4You-WI1007WH-2-Bristle-Voltage-Through/dp/B07F3TFMZ2/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1541523692&sr=8-2&keywords=decora+insert+low+voltage+wires

Or you could do it proper and get an ethernet wall plate like this:

https://www.amazon.com/Port-Ethernet-Wall-Plate-ESYLink/dp/B072J2RS43/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1541523753&sr=8-4&keywords=ethernet+wall+plate

Or decora style like this:

https://www.amazon.com/RiteAV-Decorative-Gang-Port-Plate/dp/B00ODFR6CS/ref=sr_1_20?ie=UTF8&qid=1541523792&sr=8-20&keywords=ethernet+wall+plate+decora

For just a single outlet they're a bit overpriced. But if you have multiple you can get something called a keystone plate and it allows you to put any assortment of low voltage connections in.

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Ok, I tried plugging my router in and it didn't work. The light for that particular Ethernet port remained off on both the router end and the modem end. And DHCP didn't managed to get an address. (I removed all the shorts beforehand.)

Next I'll try removing the whole Leviton jack and terminate it with a male T568B. Then plugging in my router and see if it works. If it works then I'll just use one of these female-to-female wall plates: https://www.amazon.com/Port-Ethernet-Wall-Plate-ESYLink/dp/B072J2RS43

You're a real lifesaver, man. Thanks!

If you can fish it down the wall or come through from a closet on the other side of the wall, you could use a wall plate like this so it doesn't look quite as bad. https://www.amazon.com/Port-Ethernet-Wall-Plate-ESYLink/dp/B072J2RS43/

The flat cat-6 cables work pretty well, and I've had luck tucking them into the gap between the carpet and baseboards. I know I'll end up running a couple under the carpet the next time I have it replaced.

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If you already had coax (from cable-tv) in those rooms, you could use Moca adapters. But I don't know if that'd be any better than the power line ethernet stuff.

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Of course the best way involves making big holes all over the place so you can string the cables in the walls and then go back to patch everything and repaint. The easy way is you drill a hole in a semi hidden spot (in a closet or behind furniture) and fish the cables from there.

Howdy, First, thanks for any help you can offer!
To answer your questions:

1. Yes, the TV works fine. But I will triple check when I get home that it's not secretly connecting to Wifi or something.
   
   
   
2. Yes, it goes straight there. I just installed the wire last week. We were having siding work done on the house and I took advantage of the studs being open from the outside to run the wire. It was just a normal Cat5 cable and I checked that it was working before and after I installed it.
   
   
3. I am not sure what you mean about the wires. Each jack just has a female connector on each side, and the cables plug into each side. This is the sort of thing I am talking about:
   
   https://www.amazon.com/Port-Ethernet-Wall-Plate-ESYLink/dp/B072J2RS43
   

This is about as simple as you can get ........to router <--------wallplate<------------->ethernet cable<------>wallplate< ------------>Ethernet cable<-----> to device

https://www.amazon.com/Port-Ethernet-Wall-Plate-ESYLink/dp/B072J2RS43

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get Cat 6 cable

IDK, I'd call an electrician and ask if they can give you an estimate. I'm assuming the modem/fiber jack is just the other side of the wall from the exterior pics you showed us? If that is the case, I'd be surprised if it'd cost more than $150

You could even probably do it yourself, get a couple pre-made ethernet lines (1 from modem/router to wall plate location [where you're drilling through the wall], 1 from wall plate to NID), a female-female wall jack, a ethernet crimper and a couple of rj45 connectors. <$50 bucks