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My NAS and our desktops are all on WiFi, so I'm planning to run some cable or install moca or something. Our uplink is currently only 100mbit (max for this ISP, I refuse to switch) but our city plans to roll out gigabit everywhere in the next couple years, so I want something forward compatible (powerline will probably be too limiting). SO has been complaining about latency, and I think the WiFi card is to blame, so I'm trying this before upgrading the WiFi card.
Our house has the following:
I'm going to try running some cable tomorrow (holiday in the US, just want a test run from bedroom internet source -> basement water heater room), but if that doesn't work, I'll need a backup plan.
Anyone have experience with any of the above? Tips?
Go slow. measure 4 times. most rooms don't need a jack so put APs where it is easy to ge wires and that will feed the other rooms.
That's a massive project that I would like to one day embark on myself. I'm in a ranch with a basement so it should be a breeze. Ha, not! Good luck!
No experience with most of that stuff, but I would also try to avoid powerline. Tried it and had pretty bad performance.
This may sound dumb or be helpful so I'll toss it in just in case:
Depending on when they're built, a lot of houses' RJ-11 phone jacks are actually using CAT-5E. If you're lucky, they're individual runs and not daisy-chained!
The way they set up the runs here is weird though, they're cat-5E but we have no fancy junction box. It all runs to some hatch on the side of the house presumably for telecom/satellite TV installers. So you might have secret ethernet cable behind your landline jacks, even if there's no tidy junction box! :)
It was cool finding out there's already capable infrastructure in the walls, but you gotta replace the wall jacks with RJ-45 using a tone tool to label which one goes where, and then the next trick is figuring out an affordable switch that can handle a garage that could get to 100ºF + in summer...
But anyway, worth checking before you start getting too deeply sunk into other solutions. :)
It was built in the late 80s so I doubt it's cat5. But I also know the basement was finished later, so maybe I'll get lucky at least with those.
I just need to figure out where it's all going to see if I can reuse it.
Another interesting thing is the previous owner ran speaker wire to the master bed, living room, and basement room exactly where I want to go, so maybe can reuse those runs.