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Gotta get cables with a tab protector! They're lifesavers.

Stop messing with them. You don't need to keep putting them in and out. Also, it's easy to replace them with a $30 kit.

I currently have one that doesn't click, and during gaming sessions it will get hot and pop out just enough to disconnect me. I have no idea why I haven't replaced it yet.

Even worse when it hits the power button

Just get repair clips, no need to cut the cable and re-crimp.

Also get snagless cables, they tend to use a much higher quality plastic for the tabs.

And now I will sing a traditional song of my people.

🟧⬜,🟧,🟩⬜,🟦,🟦⬜,🟩,🟫⬜,🟫.

If I have a PhD in WiFi, does that make me a wizard?

Had one. Somebody stole it at a lan, many years ago. Haven't bought another one, since, because I'm dumb.

I bought a cheap tool years ago and a few hundred feet of cat6 and some connectors and wall plates

ran my main AP off my own crimped cords for years without issue. speed tests always showed full speed

What is one of these called?

Buy them in spools.

Also for just cheap cat5, it might not actually faster than modern WiFi.

Cat 6 is what, $0.15 a foot? Plus maybe another $0.50 for the connectors and boots? That’s a 16 foot snake for $3.00.

I was going to call bullshit on that timeline...but hot damn it's already been 25 years since cat6 arrived.

I did the same but cat6a like 5 years ago. Though mine was primarily to limit wireless packet snooping/attacks, especially for devices that never got wpa3 support, not speed. There's like 50-60 devices on my network and all but two were wireless...

Knocked a hole in the wall for my network cables in the 90s. My mum thought I could have, like, asked first. So fussy.

for a short prefab patch cable to go from modem to router, it's actually a bit higher than what we pay.

i got 10m of cat 6 for 28pln(around $8) at my local store, and to overpower the router on the picture you probably only need cat 5e

There’s a few 10 packs of 6 foot cables on Amazon for around $18, that’s less than $2 each.

If something looks cool and flashy and has tons of "extra functions" I stay the fuck away from it because I know the target demographic and I know it's going to be shit in surprising ways.

Used to live in a 2 story house built in the 1900’s. It had plaster & lath walls. I ended up with 4 AP’s scattered about before we had decent WiFi coverage.

One of the worst things about those routers other than having generally poor coverage despite looking like a Crown of Thorns was that if you actually took advantage of the more advanced features like VLANs, port forwarding, static routes, FTP and all that stuff and set it up… It inevitably seemed that there was a 99% chance that a firmware update would not allow you to restore a backup of the router config on the updated device!

That happened a couple times, spent days getting everything set up only to find out the firmware update refused to load a config made with an older version. F that. Never used those routers again.

WiFi 6e and 7 are legitimate competitors to standard 1gig Ethernet.

In isolation, perhaps. Now cram 25 neighbors in high density housing in range with one another all using the same spectrum and see if that performance still is sustainable.

You can get routers which use a SIM card for getting internet access. They're pretty cool. You just plug them into a wall outlet and bam, you've got your WiFi with internet access.

Plus you can even get them with integrated powerbank, so you really don't need to plug anything anymore.

Yes, some wireless routers can be used as repeaters.

Routers like that are really multi-purposes devices that handle routing, switching, and wireless. If you're only using a local network, you can still have the wifi network and all your devices communicate through that. You just won't have internet access.

With out the router/switch, the cable's usefullness is reduced - at least in the networking application we're talking about (the cable itself is incredibly usesful for many other things besides ethernet). You can connect (most) devices directly together for communication, they'll just self assign an IP address.

In less words, you can have a network with just a wireless router and no cable, but you can't have a network with only a cable and no router (well, you can't with 'normal people' devices)(also you don't need a router for a local network, only a switch - but the home versions are often combo devices and just called a router).

I'm an RJ45 poet, and didn't knowet.

I've used a Framework Ethernet card with my phone to give mobile data to my router when my home internet went down.

That thing better have SO many spikes for that price.

Wtf did you buy? You could have gotten a wired router with a couple of access points for that.

Whaaaat? No waaayy. Jokes on da internet?

Still a computer. And quite integral one. If it doesn't work, your internet and all devices that connects to it won't work. This is a device that has to work 24/7 and produce 0 issues at any time ad long ad it works. Higher end ones also have quite a bunch of useful settings and customization options. A normie might not need them, but a power user would appreciate these settings and how reliable this router is.

But for 750 that is overkill.

Because the stupid administration put bullshit arbitrary rules on routers the remaining ones are in short supply.

They are computers, more or less. Very specific and controlled computers, with only exactly what they need to do their job. Mostly anyways.

Have you seen current laptop prices? It’s wack.

If we put more spikes on the router, maybe there will be less spikes on the ping graph. 🤔

Is that a euphemism?

Aww, not quite big enough to lay pipe? :3

One setup is like this for me... And the answer is stupid but it works. Apart from using Unifi dish antennas, it was using outdoor self-bury cable and a series of self-powering outdoor PoE repeaters. Bury the whole thing and you can get Ethernet out there no problem. All you need is enough power via a PoE switch or injector to power the chain.

The "twisted pair" part of it makes it work like coax at the frequencies it uses unless you bend it too much.

Mine is the cats attacking it.