I recently moved into a new construction home that has all the rooms “pre-wired” for ethernet, except the connections haven’t been made at the central panel.

In the image above, the one wire with the arrow pointed to it is connected to an Eero 6 Pro, from the outside Verizon Fios box. I think the setup I need to enable the ethernet ports in all the pre-wired rooms is:

Verizon Fios --> Eero 6 Pro --> Unmanaged Switch --> Individual Ethernet connections

My questions are:

• To enable all the other ethernet ports in the house, do I just need to cut/crimp the cables, add ends and follow the above setup?
• If so, what materials do I need? I figure I need a cable cutter/crimper, some cat6 ends. Do I need a LAN cable tester? Any other items?
• Can someone without networking experience do this, or should I realistically be hiring someone?

Couple notes:

• I have no experience with home networking other than setting up a modem/router (have always lived in apartments before). But I’m generally pretty tech savvy (though not home repair savvy) and can figure things out.
• Verizon tech said my ethernet cables were “A pattern”
• At some point, I do want to set up a POE camera system. (Probably a couple months down the line) Does this mean, I should get a larger POE-enabled switch? Or should I have a unmanaged switch for the room connections, and another POE enabled switch for the POE system? (I guess that would result in a switch plugged into a switch… which doesn’t sound like the best way to go, but figured I’d ask)

Thanks for any help!

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