Airport Express N issues with Cat5e

I have a netgear router and the new Airport Express N. Everything works fine when the AirPort is connected directly to the router with a patch cable CAT6. Then I take the airport upstairs and plug it into my CAT5e jack and the Airport says its not plugged in.
I can unplug the airport and plug in my macbook pro or even my dell laptop and everything works just fine from that very same CAT5e jack.
What gives?
I really want to have the Airport upstairs so I can get a better wireless signal from it, but it refuses to work in any of my CAT5e jacks when everything else does just fine.

Your information is not new nor unexpected.
Headphones are not "speakers" in the general sense and require very little input to drive them.
In a similar vein, you can connect headphones to your iPod with no problems. But if you want to use speakers and get any reasonable output you must use powered speakers.

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