I hate to ask such questions but, if you're just taking possession of the house, do you know if internet service has already been set up? The reason I ask is that your images appear to be some sort of patch panel and the coding on the wires refers to patch cable wiring configuration (568B on one of them) and not what one would normally see within interior walls such as would go to the various rooms. You said you tried connecting these directly to the router's switch ports and they didn't work. If internet service hadn't been set up, this would happen but I'd suspect that, if internet service had been set up, whoever did so would have verified that all was well. You can still test the network without an internet service but it would require some manual configuration of the connected devices. But, what I see is a patch panel and those are patch cables, they'd be meant to connect to an active device such as an Ethernet switch. The LAN port of the router would connect to it also.
Hi guys! I'm having trouble getting the ports in our house to work.
So basically we have this interface lookin thing in our house, looks like this
https://i.imgur.com/oD7fQ3P.jpg
The yellow ethernet port is supposed to connect all of the chords to one port in the router, therefore connecting the entire house with only one port taken up on the router. Thing is, it doesn't work. The power is on and everything, but it doesnt work.
So I tried to plug the individual cords into the router
https://i.imgur.com/bRgZkBM.jpg
No lights, no connection, nothing. I tried connecting my PC to one of the ports in my bedroom (all of the bedroom cords are connected to the router, so at least one of them should have been the correct wire for my bedroom) and lo and behold no connection.
I tried switching my router out to one of my older ones too, but same issue. Can anyone help me?

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