A tale as old as time. Before Ethernet cables we were running phone extension cables through the house to connect up the modem to the only phone jack.
I am old enough to remember those good old days!
I had to buy carpets to hide the cable under them when running across the floor. Only exposed parts go through the doorways, and the wife complains about them. Well, I am not complaining about our craptastic wifi anymore.
If you own your house you could learn to pull cable and how to do punchdowns. It’s not a super difficult job. That way you could impress the lady of the house with your technical skills while also hiding the mess.
In my experience, the part about hiding the mess is all she cared about, as long as “the internet still works.”
But you will always look at that wall jack and feel great about it while always having the lowest latency and highest throughput you can possibly get, and that will always impress yourself!
I’d be careful giving broad advice like this.
In my country (Australia) it’s illegal to run cabling yourself unless you’re a registered cabler.
Even for an Ethernet cable? Surely not.
I seem to remember that yes, it was even for low voltage data cabling.
Not that I would imagine anyone’s enforcing it strongly
I think the enforcement would come with insurance when your house burns down, they can point at “unlicensed” cables
Would they be able to prove it wasn’t installed by a licensed contractor? Ok, if you have it installed legally then you’ll likely have an invoice/receipt, but if you lose it that doesn’t mean the cable is illegal. So if you did it yourself, how would they know it’s not just a case of a missing invoice?
I’m not saying it would go anywhere, but with how scummy insurance companies are they might try it. Still, it’s a bullshit law
You learn something new every day. That’s insane!
I’m sorry you live in authoritariansville.
Even low voltage? That’s kinda crazy to me.
Honestly for newbies I always recommend inline couplers instead of punchdowns. Still meets electrical code in areas where you can’t run a cable through a wall (wiring only) and allows for the use of non-crimped cables so the barrier to entry is far lower. It’s not like most houses are at risk of hitting the length limits for Ethernet runs anyway.
Literally me a couple weeks ago
I was staying with some friends and we were all Computer users and gamers, Ethernet cables sprawled across the floor to every room in the place, and when we got tired of tripping over it, we duct taped them down to the floor where they stayed until we moved out.
This is the way.
Go ahead and pull em in the wall! Don’t be scared. Worst case the world is ending anyways
Damn, you’re right.
I holes in your pants became fashionable, so too can holes in your walls!
Nah we got rings and plates to look all pretty. May be a couple extra blank plates in your house once it’s all said and done depending on how hard it is to fish wires around, but, again the world is ending so it’s cool
Damn. When you look at it that way, I could probably justify attempting a lot of difficult things that way. Thanks!
Well that’s reassuring
I always wonder if I’m introducing bad latency by running a 100 ft ethernet cable.
Then I remind myself it’s the speed of light.
It’s either deal with the distance with a wireless network (which can’t even reach my current bedroom in my house) or deal with concrete walls that also cuts down the Wi-Fi signal in my new bedroom.
Then again, my home’s network is due for an upgrade because it’s 17 years old, so I just need to convince my family to upgrade to CAT6 cabling and a faster Wi-Fi router.
Why not get a powerline adapter at that point?
Powerline can’t even do gigabit (usually) and you need very favorable circuits.
Did that got better? When I tried it, speeds were horrible, ping all over the place and sometimes it didn’t work at all…
They did, but they’re still dependent on competent home wiring, so results CAN vary
Shhh, it’s better to struggle with the ethernet cord and make memes about it.
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I am 12 on the inside, but the outside has entered 40s, unfortunately.
Forever teen - 1x 10, 2x 10, 3x 10, 4x 10 …
In college our apartment had one long hallway with all the rooms coming off of it. The connection for the router was on the opposite end from my room. So me and another guy had a horrible connection. We macgyvered a bunch of Ethernet cords using cheap couplers from Amazon and just laid them down in the hallway and into my room. We used an old router as an wireless access point. It may not have looked nice, but it worked!
I had to run a Ethernet cable from the cable modem in the master bedroom to the office security gate and switch, which then connect to all the servers, desktops, and wifi routers.
All thanks to shitty coax wiring in condos and Crapcast.
Mine runs from the top floor all the way into the basement!
This sas me back in the day lol so funny 🤣
How many are 100ft?
100
30 meters.
30,48 meters.
Come on, be accurate. The metric system isn’t based on random body parts or things laying around that came in handy once upon a time 400 years ago
Thanks
Wifi is actually really good these days. I would be surprised if you could notice the difference given a wifi router in a decent spot.
It really depends on what you are doing and what you are expecting to get out of the experience. For instance, streaming a game from a gaming pc to a Steam Deck or other portable unit works best when the pc is wired to the network.
But that’s why you would put it near the router so you don’t have to use 100 ft of cable to do it, so meh.
I use my steam deck to stream games over wifi. I cannot notice the performance difference between wifi.
Well, I use mine to stream games over wifi and it works better when my pc is wired. Different situations require different set ups. That’s the beauty of having options.
Yeah, unfortunately my house is pretty old, so there’s exactly one spot I can place a modem/router. I could centralize the router, but it always ends in a cable 🙃
When I set up people to work from home and see some of the WiFi set ups they have, I just tell them to go wired if they can. They wonder why their internet is slow when they have one AP and it’s on the other side of the house. Also it’s the one their ISP provided and it’s 10 years old.
$400 Wifi⁶ mesh router vs one $10 wirey boi
In my countries the routers can all do a gigbit down so I think its better to use wireless unless you have a really large house.
Yea, I just moved into a little apartment that only has wifi from the landlord’s house. I was skeptical about it, but it’s been almost a year now and not a single problem with it. I used it for my PC, cell phone, TV and tablets. I have never had to ask my landlord to “restart” the modem.
I did the same. In fact, the PC I built doesn’t even have wifi.
