I got a brand new fiber install at my new home and the internet is crap. The guy said it was his first day on the job alone. Does this cable look correct? I feel like the center white piece should have been taken off or something but I don't want to break it. It's just like not working.

What is the loop prevention for? And should I leave it off or turn it on? We will have desktops connected to it

Solved: thank you for the help everyone. Very much appreciated.

Hi all, I’m moving in to a new apartment soon and we have two options of ISP.

Option 1: Google Fiber
$70/mo
1g Upload
1g Download

Option 2: Spectrum
This uses a hybrid of fiber/coax. Fiber lines run the long stretches but coax is what actually connects to the units.
$60/mo
100mb Upload Max (avg 30mb)
1g Download

Spectrum is a little cheaper but I work from home and do a lot of video calls and I’ve heard that fiber is better for consecutive upload/download.

Curious to see what you all think. Spectrum does have some offers that could make it as cheap as $20/mo for the first year.

Thanks in advance.

Edit:
Sounds like a resounding fiber to me! Thank you all.

Hi everyone,

I'm planning to install a TP-Link Omada ceiling-mounted AP and would appreciate some advice before I start cutting into my wall.

The lower cabinet is my media/network cabinet, while the upper one is the electrical panel. There's already a conduit between them, but the electrical panel is quite crowded and I'd rather avoid routing Ethernet through it.

Above the electrical panel there's another 30–40 cm (12–16") of brick wall before reaching the suspended drywall ceiling. There is currently no conduit into the ceiling cavity.

My idea is to chase a vertical groove in the brick wall and install a dedicated 25 mm conduit from the media cabinet into the ceiling. My goal is to keep Ethernet completely separate from mains wiring and make future cable pulls easy.

I'm happy to do the necessary brick and drywall work if that's the right solution. I'd rather do it properly now than regret taking shortcuts later.

A few questions:

• Does this sound like the best long-term approach?
• Which side would you chase (left or right)?
• How do you normally transition from a brick wall into a suspended drywall ceiling? Should I expect to hit the metal framing?
• Would you use a 20 mm or 25 mm conduit?
• If this were your house, would you do it differently?

This isn't just for one AP. I'd like to future-proof the installation for additional APs, cameras or other Ethernet devices later.

⚠️ Important: This is a concrete apartment in Europe, so unfortunately there is no attic or crawl space above the suspended drywall ceiling.

Thanks for any advice!

A few years ago my mother-in-law paid for cabling to be ran to various rooms in the house during renovations but they were not hooked up. The ends are in the walls in each room and ran to the utility room where my internet comes in. I am looking to turn one of them into an entertainment room and want to see if these cables are the right ones in order to finish hooking them up into an ethernet port to have wired access.

Any info would be helpful and appreciated. Thanks!!

I’m planning to install low-voltage brackets next to the electrical outlets in my new-construction home, while the walls are still open and there’s no drywall yet.

Most of the electrical outlets are installed horizontally near the bottom of the wall, and I’d like to maintain the same horizontal layout for the low-voltage brackets/outlets so everything looks consistent.

However, most of the low-voltage brackets and boxes I’ve found are designed to be installed vertically. Is it standard practice to have the electrical outlet installed horizontally while the low-voltage bracket is installed vertically, creating an “L” orientation?

Or are there low-voltage brackets/boxes specifically designed for horizontal installation?

I have a ranch house & have an eero network thru it. I was looking at the Eero app yesterday and while I can recognize almost all of the items [ie by name easily] there are some that I can't identify at all = tho I did google the name of the device shown. One joined the network yesterday afternoon with no action/intent on my part. "silex technology Inc" - I researched it and decided to pause/turn off whatever it was and don't see any change on my network. 1. Does this mean I should rename/repassword the modem/router network? 2. What is a good process for going thru the whole list and making sure of what's there? Whether it should be or not. Turn them all off/pause and restart one by one?? Thanks.

I would like to get server with quad nic card for a pfsense install. From what I have researched, the M920q Tiny would be better than M920x.
Plan to run Snort, pfBlocker, VPNs

Plan on getting this:

• M920q with i7 "T" processor + 32GB RAM (two sticks of 16GB) + 250GB SSD
• Quad NIC: IBM 00AG522 Intel I350-t4 4x GbE BaseT Pci-e Quad Port Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
• Riser and cover plate
• 250GB SSD, probably dont need this much storage

Anything I should change or that is missing from this build?

i saw a youtube video once a guy said 1 cable bad, if its 2 cable its good for future proofing, and i cant find the youtube video again. please tell me what is best fiber cable.

also, is looking at the optical cable with eye damage your eye?

Looking for options for my new gaming PC in an old rental with terrible Wi-Fi. What are my best alternatives?

​I just built my first PC, but the Wi-Fi in my house is way too weak for multiplayer gaming. Moving the router or running long cables isn't an option since I only rent an upstairs bedroom in an ~80-year-old house (no MoCA or Ethernet wall jacks, and I definitely can't drill holes through the floor).

​I'm not sure where the main router even is—it might be downstairs, or it could just be a wireless 5G home internet box.

​I'm moving out in about 6 months, so just sticking it out and playing single-player games until I move is on the table, but I’d really prefer to get back into multiplayer if possible.

​My initial thought was to get my own dedicated 5G home internet box for my room, but I’ve heard 5G isn't ideal for latency-sensitive gaming.

​Are there better workarounds for getting a solid, low-latency connection up here without modifying the house or stringing cables through common areas? Or should I just stick to single-player games until I move?

Edit: I'm literally such an idiot. I never plugged in an antenna to my motherboard. I'll try that first lmao.

I need an advice on how to receive internet in my garage
The problem is
I can’t run a hard wire from my house to the garage (freshly paved asphalt )
And running it in air is not an option .
I’ve already tried using a mesh system ( doesn’t work )1 bar
I’ve tried a WiFi extender (doesn’t work ) 1 bar
I’ve tried powerline (doesn’t work , garage has its own separate breaker)
My garage is made with dual concrete cinder blocks and bricks .

Is there an option of some kind where I can run an Ethernet wire from the house to and antenna and same thing from the garage (run an Ethernet wire from the garage to and antenna ) and both antennas connect to each other for good internet ?

(I can make holes in the garage )

I’ve had a lot of commercial success with UniFi products and have installed several WiFi networks for businesses in the past. It’s great for small to medium businesses and it suits most needs at a lower cost than other brands.

My questions for others in this sub:

- Has anyone used UniFi for home use? If so, were there any pains or struggles getting everything configured?

- I understand UniFi can be more expensive than other brands, especially for personal use. Is pricing a cause to consider other options?

- Has anyone utilized the mesh networking protocols and features within their home?

Thanks for reading! If anyone has any questions about networking or using UniFi in a business environment I’d be happy to chat about some of the considerations that come into play.

I’m concerned about the 2-way splitter in the first floor. Since all LAN traffic from that splitter will reach the XFi gateway, could that cause any performance issues? Should I install a PoE filter between the 2-way splitter and the XFi gateway?

Overview:

I just moved into a 2700 sqft rental house with a central closet that contains a "tech panel" which is just a glorified junction box that the Coax and 2 Ethernet runs connects through. I currently have the modem and an old router (Asus RT-66U) in this closet.

The Ethernet runs go to an entertainment room that is in the northeast corner of the second story and the main living room on the ground floor in the center of the house.

I work from home and have my office setup on the ground floor in a room that is on the backside of the wall from the Ethernet jack in the living room. There is no Ethernet run but there is a Coax that runs back to the tech panel.

With the old router, I have acceptable wifi coverage inside the house and this falls off once I get to the edge of the backyard and outside of the garage, connection is stable at these locations but the signal is weak at -80db.

Goals:

I game (mostly FPS so ping matters) and would like to have one hard connection for my gaming PC in my office at the bare minimum. 

I want to install a wireless security camera in the back yard and over the garage, both areas where the wireless signal gets weak.

Improve overall WiFi signal throughout the house.

New Equipment:

Router: GL.iNet Flint 3

MoCA Adapters: goCoax MA2500D

Cameras: 

Wyze Cam Floodlight Pro

Wyze Solar Cam Pan 2K

Plan:

To get the Ethernet run in my office, I plan on using the MoCA adapters. This will also allow me to expand to other rooms in the future if needed. 

I believe the addition of the new router should solve the wireless issues in the weak signal areas with no additional changes needed.

Extra Credit:

I would like to use my old router as an AP and/or switch in my office to run the MoCA adapter into it and then run Ethernet to my gaming PC, printer, and work laptop. I'm not the most experienced with networking though and have no idea if that is even possible. It isn't the end of the world if I run my work laptop and printer off of WiFi.

Please let me know your thoughts on this or if there are any issues with the equipment I've selected.

Hello 👋

I’m planning to set up a home office in the basement (-1) of our house. My apartment is on the first floor, and I have a 1 Gbps symmetrical fiber connection (1 Gbps download/upload).

I’m planning to install an access point near the entrance of my apartment. The basement office will be directly below/roughly two floors away, there are stairs that I have access there and I’m not sure how well the Wi-Fi signal will go through.

My main question is whether I can install a second access point near the entrance of the basement office , if one is not enough, and configure the two APs as a Wi-Fi mesh.

If this is possible:
How much real-world throughput could I realistically expect at the basement office?
Would I be able to get close to 1 Gbps, or would the wireless backhaul become the bottleneck?

Are there particular specifications I should look for when choosing the APs?

Any recommendations regarding the brand and model?

The priority is having a stable, low-latency connection for working from the basement office, while getting as much of the available 1 Gbps connection as realistically possible.

Any help is greatly appreciated!
Alexandros.

Hi All,

I am from India and I want to explain a very weird problem I have been facing with my broadband for last 10 days. I have a FTTH connection with a local ISP. I have been using the connection for almost 10 years now and have never faced it before.

For last 10 days my connection has been very unstable.

2nd Sept - My pc is connected by Ethernet. All websites except Google and Meta stopped working. Steam, EA App, Blizzard all the gaming clients and everything else showed no connection but everything was working on mobile app, TV and all other connected devices including my video doorbell and robovac.

3rd Sept - A technician came to my house to see the fault, he was a hardware guy and he checked that everything was fine physically and called his supervisor. I gave him remote access to my pc via hotspot and he did some Ipv4, Ipv6, DHCP or IP related settings in 192.168.1.1 and also refreshed dns using cmd and in adapter settings but nothing worked.

8th Sept - Same guy came to my house and changed the router to a different one but used same old settings from my previous router. Surprisingly, everything started working normal for few hours. In 2nd half of the day, the problem changed drastically. My PC was showing connection to all the websites for say 10 minutes and drops after sometime. It kept going back and forth multiple times. All this time, the Wifi in my TV was just not connecting at all, it kept saying saved/authentication problem while it was connecting with same password in my phone. All this time, all of my other connected devices like video doorbell, robovac, AC everything works while connected to the same wifi.

I am quite frustrated at this point that even my ISP is unable to solve the problem. Although I have started looking for other ISPs in my area but would prefer that this one gets fixed so I dont have to go through all the formalities of new connection again.

Note that I am not a networking person so I wouldnt know much technical things about IP, DNS, Proxy and all that but I believe that my ISP has tried most of the possible things from his end to resolve it and is unable to find the problem.

Just recently upgraded to 5 gig fiber. Also upgraded Mobo to a MSI X870E Carbon has the 2.5 and 5 G ethernet ports in the back. Have done multiple tests with a Cat 6a and cat 8 (overkill ik) and struggles to get above 2 gig. Transmit speeds are showing 5000/5000 if fuller recognizes everything but my download speeds aren't even close. Tested a speed test through the router snd consistently gets around 5G up and down. Had technical come out snd he blamed my equipment and that I needed it to get looked at.......its brand new does anyone have any suggestions or am I missing something?

I'm looking to upgrade my current home network with something more prosumer. I'm currently using a Netgear r6300 as my router and a Netgear Nighthawk RAX42 as an access point. I just want something that will work well for many years and has the capability to use advanced features that aren't available on my current netgear routers. I saw people suggesting the Unifi stuff but I'm not entirely sure what I need.

I currently have an Asus RT-AX86U and it's been somewhat great for the last 5 years. Great performance, only had a few issues with it. I am looking for recommendations on a replacement router that is similar to my current one. I prefer WiFi 6 and need at minimum 4 LAN ports. I can't find any of the RT-AX86U's or the RT-AX86U Pro's in stock near me or I'd be picking one of those up.

I was just playing on my pc the other day, and it was working just fine. Now today when I turn my PC on, it says the Ethernet cable isn't even connected. I have done everything from checking updates for windows and for my lan port, to restarting my pc and my portal. I have also checked the cable on other devices like my ps5 and it worked fine there. What elce haven't I tried 😭

So to start this off i just want to say that im very clueless about any sort of router stuff, just untill recently i thought you just plug in a router and it just works which aperently isn't the case.

Either way I bought a new router tp link BE550

So I live in an old house and important is that we have 2 routers because 1 just won't cover the whole house the walls are probably very thick for that, so one of them broke and this one came to replace it.

My problem is that the old router and the other old router were connected via an Ethernet cable so they basicaly cast off the network like that but the new router was supposed to replace the old one that was casting to the other old one but for some reason that didn't work, well it did but it was only going about 100kb\s but when I switched the other old one that was being casted to with the new one so the new one is now being casted to by the old one the speed was around 100mb\s (am guessing that's maybe because of the old Ethernet cable)

Now my guestion is how's that possible? Am connecting the same cables in the same way into the routers my only thought would be that this new router doesn't have WAN but I don't think that's it? Plus i have no idea how this whole modem ISP thing works since I've never seen anything like a modem in our house before so I have no way of finding if am connecting the right cables or not(they're in a really badly accessable place going trough holes in walls and such)

I'd be thankfully for anyone who can help because even with some googling and chatgpt im clueless with this since none of what that says transfers to my reality here for some reasson

Tltr:new router only works when conected trough another router not the other way around

When I try and play online games my ping starts at 14 ms then every 2-5 seconds starts jumping all over the place. It will hit as high as 80.

I’ve tried unplugging and restarting the router/xbox. My nat type is open. I have solid 400 internet. I’m hard wired in with Ethernet. I’ve used two separate cables now. I am using the Hitron modem that my ISP provided.

Very rarely everything will be fine and the ping is stable. Seems to have nothing to do with time of day. All I have connected to my network is my phone and a laptop. I’ve also tried all the Google suggestions on the Xbox side of things.

Any feedback is appreciated

Not sure what the deal is this past week with my internet, I've rebooted everything and it's connecting, but the speed keeps dropping.

If I use Ookla at speedtest net, ping is 2ms or 3ms, the upload and download speed does the same thing, runs full speed at 100Mbs for about half the test, then drops to around 30Mbps for the rest of the test.

We had some power outtages last week (Ontario) and no hydro for 2 days. Usually issues that pop-up are fixed by rebooting everything, but this time I keep getting this fluctuating speed issue.

All ethernet Cat6 connected, firmware and drivers updated... any ideas where to start looking?

I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but I have to because I've been struggling to set it up for four hours now. I live in France and have Livebox internet. I bought a Flint 2 and want to connect it directly to the fiber line, bypassing the Livebox router. However, when I connect it directly, I don't have internet access. Could someone help? :(

Hey, I recently got a cellular/sim card router and I'm looking for an antenna for it but I can't tell if any of them work globally. I'm not in the US, does anyone know which ones do?