Do older modems work with Cat6 cables?

Question

We have a DLink DSL-604 (a modem/router that is quite a few years old). We have just moved into a new house that has Cat6 cabling throughout the house, and the modem doesn't work with it. When we plug the Cat6 cable in the modem doesn't recognise that a device has been plugged in.

Do older modems support Cat6 cables? And if not, is there a converter or something to enable me to plug a Cat6 cable into the modem?

Thanks

Answer 1

Somewhere in your house there is a Network panel that supplies the "termination" point for all the CAT6 wiring.  

You need to install the router at that panel.  Connect the DSL line to the modem, then connect the LAN connections to the panel, you may need a multiport switch to have enough outlets (if you want to feed all of them)!  That will supply internet to ALL the cat 6 jacks in the house directly and the modem stays at the "termination" location. To use a computer, you just connect to any one of the  wall jacks.

Answer 2

Cat6 isn't the problem, it's the terminations.  Figure out which pair out of the 4 that the phone signal is on, and wire up an RJ-11 outlet in place of the RJ-45 on the wall.

Read up on terminations here:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RJ11,_RJ14,...

The router is expecting an RJ-11, not an RJ-45... you could terminate one end of a cable with an RJ-11 and the other with an RJ-45, and that would do it too.