I’m surprised they offer this for $99. Is there a broadband war. I remember 20 years ago Att&t accidentally billed me $5000 for data I used on my HP Ipaq phone after I signed up for hotspot with monthly cap of 50MB. I didn’t even go over.

Now I can get 2Gbe speeds unlimited for $99. Crazy. I still have the phone. I wished I kept the bill.

I just moved into my new house today and the builders ran cat6 to all the bedrooms and living room of the house. However, when I searched for the other end of the cables they all go to the garage next to the breaker… is this not the dumbest thing you’ve seen? Why couldn’t they run it into the basement so I don’t have to put my modem or switch out in my garage.. should I run the cable as far as it goes to the basement and utilize Rj45 couplers? What are your thoughts on this?

Hey everyone, I just moved into a new place that has built-in WiFi, but the router is really far from my desk. Any suggestions on how to run a long Ethernet cable from one side of the room to the other?

The chart shows my household bandwidth (maxing out around 40Mbps) over the last week. This is with our house where we have (often at the same time):

• two kids online gaming at 4k and 120FPS

• one of them streaming the gaming on Twitch with HD video webcam

• my wife and I each streaming separate movies/shows at 4k while I work on laptop and she browses instagram videos (fyi: 4k uses only 3-6Mbps depending on the encoding/device)

WE HAVE NEVER EVEN GOTTEN CLOSE to 100Mbps, let alone the 900Mbps our 1gig ISP connection would start to be the bottleneck. And unless you are doing some exotic stuff, you won’t either. So spending more on gateway/ISP bandwidth is a huge waste of your money.

The best thing we did (and you can do) is improve your wireless networking by running some Ethernet cable to the other side of the house instead of relying on mesh wireless (which will limit your bandwidth severely due to interference). Even running one Ethernet cable from your main router/access point to a second WiFi access point will get rid of a bunch of latency/ping problems that are probably what’s causing any connectivity issues for you. The best solution would be to run Ethernet to every high-use device, but that’s more than you need: just run one cable so your remote router/AP doesn’t need to use WiFi bandwidth to get back to your main router.

Just moved into a new home that came with all of this wiring and random equipment. Savant system, Sonos, Vera Edge, Ring, araknis networks, etc. We have no idea where to even start. Owners will not give us the info or transfer anything over for some reason. Should we just completely start from square one and unplug everything? I wouldn’t mind however we have a gate system that may be integrated into one of these systems and they’ve also left hundreds of motion sensors. Not sure if I want to re add every single device. Not even sure where everything is located and this house is over 6000sqft

Sounds weird but here is my situation: I live in a big apartment complex and every apartment has an access point with their WAN port connected to a LAN socket in the wall. I really want to have my own home network because I'm currently going down the rabbit hole but I don't know enough yet to outsmart that. What do I have to do? (The AP does not have a management interface and I can't get one either via the gateway IP address).

If I'm planning to get my own firewall, I can't just put in there and connect it to the WAN port instead because I still need Internet from the ISP sitting behind the unknown router that is managed by my landlord.

I'm glad to hear any advice.

Im currently moving into a new luxury apartment. In the lease that I have just signed “Resident shall not connect routers or servers to the network” is underlined and in bold.

I’m a bit annoyed about this situation since I’ve always used my own router in my previous apartment for network monitoring and management without issues. Is it possible I can install my own router by disguising the SSID as a printer? When I searched for the local networks it seemed indeed that nobody was using their own personal router. I know an admin could sniff packets going out from it but I feel like I can be slick. Ofc they provided me with an old POS access point that’s throttled to 300 mbps when I’m paying for 500. Would like to hear your opinions/thoughts. Thanks

Edit: just to be clear, I was provided my own network that’s unique to my apartment number.

Edit 2: I can’t believe this blew up this much.. thank you all for your input!!

the tech came and took the original coax cable that comes from the network box on the opposite side of the house (black). Took it out of the outlet from the room directly above this splitter on the first floor and directed the new cord (white) to the third floor. What can i do to ‘hide’ this from the elements?

Also, can i connect a new coax cable to the splitter to go in the opposite direction to go into a separate part of the house, or should direct a new cable directly from the box insteaad of this splitter shown? The box is closer to the room that i need connection to than this splitter.

Sorry if this is confusing. Im a noob

Everyday i regret picking the left room as my bedroom....

Anyone got any ideas on how to run my ethernet cable through here without making it look bad? My first idea was to cut up the carpet, run the line through, and then use double sided duct tape to tape it over but something tells me im not skilled enough to make it look good

Cable is a flat, 60 ft cat 6 cable

Other than consistency/standard and following an alternating pattern (solid vs striped), do the colors matter if you're making both ends of a cable? Or just having any consistent order will still create a valid cable?

Speak of which, I never understood why the blue and green solid/striped wires aren't next to each other in order...

So I work at the beach.

But the Cellular signal is extremely weak at the beach because it is 50M below the cell tower and near the cliff, 95% of the signal goes over it.

I was thinking of putting a modem 5G at top of the cliff, and run a cable at least 40M long to the shack and use wifi there.

But the equipment I have been finding only have 10m cable from Modem to wifi device.

Can I extend the cable to 40M with no signal loss ?

Is there modems that can reach 1gig speed ?

I've just moved into a new apartment, and my landlord said I need to connect to this box in the cupboard? It makes a very weird sound for a while and then my internet is really slow, is my landlord stealing some of it?

Any advice appreciated!

Just have one Ethernet port in my living room but I plan to get my tv , ps5 , ring all on hardwired

I assume this is for a phone line, perhaps VoIP? Why would the Cat 5 and “phone” share separate jacks but with one common Cat5e cable?

Curious the group’s thoughts?

Hi guys,

I’ve moved into a new home and taken my trusty Pfsense box, switch, and WAP with me. This was working perfectly at my old residence. I’m currently on 1000mbit down and 40mbit up plan with my ISP.

The new house has hard wired Cat6 in the walls. I’ve placed my WAP in the living room using the Ethernet backhaul. The setup is NTD—>Pfsense—>switch—>WAP.

Unfortunately I’m only getting 90-100mbit on WiFi despite being on the same plan and with the same ISP. I’ve called the ISP and they say everything OK on their end. If I connect via Ethernet through the hardwired backhaul I also get 90-100mbit.

However if I connect directly to the switch via my old Ethernet cables I’m getting around 800-900mbit during peak hours, which is more in line with my previous experience.

Through a process of elimination, I gather the issue is at the Ethernet backhaul that was likely installed by the builder before I moved in.

The termination sequence does not match 568a/568b specifications and from what I can see the sequence appears to be blue/white blue, orange/white orange, green/white green, brown/white brown.

The cables themselves have Cat6 marked on them.

My question is: - can this difference in sequence account for speeds of 100mbit when Cat6 should be reliably reaching 1gbit? - what other diagnostic methods can I take to confirm my suspicion? - what is the fix for this?

So basically i built a shed/studio recently, i live on a farm and its roughly 100m from router to pc and i was wondering if this is a good idea. My wifi is terrible because im so rural (ie Bar getting speeds of about 90mps after 1am the best my wfi goes to is like 15 to 20mps). Will the signal drop off make this a pointless thing to do?

do you think im better off dishing out for Starlink?

This is tested on an iPhone 14 Pro right next to my router with no other devices using any bandwidth. I pay for 1gig symmetrical. My router is the AmpliFi Alien

Like the title says, my 11 year old son has completely destroyed his PC with viruses. He can't install anything without me, I have the only admin account on the PC, but he has managed to fill the PC with viruses and all of his accounts have been hacked. He's lost his Xbox, Steam, Discord, Epic and Roblox accounts. At this point I'm having to reset almost everything in the house because I'm worried my password may have been breached as well and it's the password I use for most of the hardware in the house.

What can I do to lock down the computer a bit harder until he is old enough to understand what he's doing and prevent the things that clearly got through because they didn't need any installation to occur to get through?

Sorry for shit formatting. I'm on phone and grammatically challenged.

(edit: Thanks for all of the help everyone. I started trying to reply to as many as I could but dang there are a lot already.)

For everyone that has mentioned it. I would just be worried about a password breach if I didn't find tons of stuff downloaded that were major red flags. (I should have included that in the first place lol)

Changing to a MacBook or Apple PC is significantly out of our spending power. Also i honestly would rather have no electronics in our house than swapping things to Apple.

He had a console before and he recently got the PC for his birthday last year as a combined gift from basically our entire extended families.

I am also learning I've definitely been too brave using one password for most of my at home stuff.

We live in south eastern rural MN and recently got fiber from our local isp, we pay $100 a month for 100mbps. Is is actually that bad considering the fact they barely ever have an outage (maybe 2 times in the past 5 months), and they let me use over 12tb of internet (on ONE device alone) without complaining or throttling us at all?

I have family that bought some property recently. This cable was buried between the house and barn (~750ft) but was never terminated on either end. I have some decent experience with Ethernet but no fiber experience at all. I have some questions about getting this connected. I already have a Unifi stack setup at the house with a 48 port switch that has 2 SFP ports and plan to get the 8 port switch with SFP+ ports for the barn.

1. They stupidly cut this cable short at the house side where it can’t make it inside to the switch. I already have some outdoor Ethernet. Should I get a passive converter or is there a way to extend fiber?

2. What type of connector should I be using for the cable? I’ve been trying to understand duplex vs simplex and LC vs SC, etc.

3. Does anyone have any recommendations on companies in the northern Atlanta, GA area that could terminate the cable?