installing a home network line

[Skudmissal]

Shouldn't this work? I installed cat6 jacks in my house and she'd, ran a cat6 cable between them, connected a cable between my modem and the house jack, and connected a cable between the shed jack and a PC. I should have internet at the PC, right? What am I doing wrong? (So very new to this)

[icecream-guy]

try troubleshooting. I would use the bottom up method, starting at layer 1, do you have link light on PC NIC? if not the cable is probably bad crimps or not wired correctly. (see pic below for standards)  If so, it this PC IP address static or DHCP? if DHCP are you getting IP address? can you ping the default gateway? do you see the MAC address of the default gateway in ARP?

[deanwebb]

To add to the troubleshooting steps, if you can plug in directly somewhere, bypassing the new cable work, you can test to see if the connection is there to be had in the first place. If yes, then the cabling needs work, most likely. If not, then a call to the ISP may be in order.

There's no one best way to start, except to start with what checks are easiest to do and which force a 50/50 choice on what next question to ask.

For example, if someone points to a shoe store and says, "Bring me back the one shoe in there that I'm thinking of, but I'll only answer yes/no questions about it", if you plan to complete the task, then asking "Is it a left shoe or a right shoe" will guarantee you cut the field by 50% at the start.

[config t]

try troubleshooting. I would use the bottom up method, starting at layer 1, do you have link light on PC NIC? if not the cable is probably bad crimps or not wired correctly. (see pic below for standards)  If so, it this PC IP address static or DHCP? if DHCP are you getting IP address? can you ping the default gateway? do you see the MAC address of the default gateway in ARP?

This. After you validate the direct connection as Dean suggested you ought to make sure your cabling is a "straight-through" connection on all segments. That was my very first inclination after reading your post. Either this or bad terminations, or a combination of both.