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

If it's a wooden door that you're screwing into, dab some match sticks with a little bit of liquid nails and gently hammer them into the stripped-out screw hole, and cut them flush with the hole. Once the glue dries, you can drive the screw back into the matches and it'll have enough wood to bite into.

If you can, re-use existing sockets! Old telephone or antenna lines can work! You tie the cable to the end of the old cable and pull it through the existing PVC pipe.

This was an older stumped house. The way I did it was to remove a power point, look in the wall cavity for where the cable came up out of the floor in the cavity space, and then assuming there was no obstruction, I then got under the floor and drilled up. In most cases I was able to stay a good 20cm or so away from the power cable. Worked a charm. I was paranoid if I got it wrong I'd be drilling right up through the actual floor.

Nowadays, doing the same at my own house.... Cut the plaster. Run cable. Patch plaster. No stuffing around with the slowly slowly approach 🤷‍♂️

LACP won't get ya double throughput sadly.

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!

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.

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.

You can also buy devices you plug into the wall and route your network through your power network. Used them to give my detached garage wifi. Works pretty well.

Yeah they're great! I got a super long flat white one and those little white plastic staple things you can lightly hammer into the wall, and ran it along the baseboard of the walls, makes it nearly invisible! It was a bit tedious to do (which is why I haven't yet redone it in the place I live now, although I will), but honestly I super recommend it. My partner wanted to try and run cords through the walls but I was way too nervous about what might go wrong, so found this solution instead lol

I got an electrician and they just told me to hire a drywall guy (only half kidding)

The whole thing is layered into multiple levels (go check the OSI Model and its Layers on Wikipedia if you're willing to go down that specific information hole ;)) and the physical layer should mainly be handling packet loss on the connection between those adaptors, transparently to the higher layers that just see that as lower bandwidth than the spec for the adaptors (a spec which is really quite optimistic, IMHO).

Yeah, a cable with a metal sheaf wired to the GND level (i.e. Cat cable) is going to be way better at higher frequencies and at isolation from noise that two twisted copper wires were the network signal is shared with a different "signal" which whilst generally 50/60Hz (depending on country) can have spikes and noise at other frequencies, so it's never going to be the same.

However for example at home right now I can get a reliable 100 Mbit/s over a pair of those adaptors from my router to my PC and the speed limitation is actually (I believe) from my old router not supporting Gigabit Ethernet rather than from the adaptors which are supposed to handle up to 500 Mbit/sec.

That said and as somebody pointed out, it only works well if the plugs you're connecting are on the same electrical network, as transversing coils isn't exactly great for high frequency signals.

It definitely can be finicky. I had a portable ac that completely killed the power line ethernet connection when it ran. And my current house I have it in i use from where my router is to where my main TV is and it is unreliable even without that AC unit. So it definitely depends on the circumstances.

I used ehternof power for many years and although I didn't look at packet loss I never had a problem with it.

They did, but they're still dependent on competent home wiring, so results CAN vary

Those Ethernet splitters also don't let you pass the input signal to more than one output at a time - you couldn't have the router and the PC on at the same time.

I don't really know! I was thinking one less device to go through, but now I realize that's silly

It's not slow by any means but I had to move my modem and router further away to reach all parts of my house better. So I was laying the Ethernet cable and as I was plugging it into the router I just thought maybe that would give it just that little tiny boost. But I just won't do it now. Thanks for that

Granted I've only used it in 2/3 houses but they've always given me the best speed, at least in the past 5-10 years. They used to be much worse if you're basing this on old experience. And also the oldest house I used them in only got 2MBps so it wasn't exactly hard for them to get to top speed. My current place isn't exactly new wiring and the copper cables still get my max speed of 11MBps.

Yeah you won't get the full experience of gigabit connection through copper wall cables but I've never lived in a place with fast enough WiFi for that to matter. I much prefer a cable free house, I have a power cable going to my server in a cupboard and I really hate it, wish there was a power socket in there.

Yep. Got one transferring 1 gig fiber between floors, and the upstairs regularly gets full speed through it. Highly recommended if you can do it.

Just be careful, they can be pretty expensive and often way way slower than advertised.

The main reasons I use them are places you lack WiFi coverage, where reliability is more important than speed.

If your house is wired for cable and you’re not using it, they also have MOCA which is way way better.

Coax cables are wicked fast and you can use them alongside network switches to get LAN all sorts of places you’d normally have issues.

They're good/reliable enough that it's worth the £20-30 to try a set out. Although like another guy commented bad wall wiring can sometimes have effects if your router is really fast, I get my full 11MBps through my walls easily enough in relatively old housing.

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

To clarify, powerline adapters are what you mean. Power over Ethernet is just that, providing a current over an ethernet cable.

I used to have them. They work in a pinch, but it's not the most solid connection in the world from personal experience.

Not as good as normal lan, but much better than wifi, and is easier to manage than a 50ft cord, so pros and cons

Faster than your internet. Probably not a good option if you want to hook up a NAS, though.

$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.

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 🙃

I use my steam deck to stream games over wifi. I cannot notice the performance difference between wifi.