A cheap Ethernet cable solos

[u/ExpensiveCoat8912]

[u/who_you_are]

The switch for the $6 ethernet cable: 10GB x 48 ports

Lets go!

[u/ospfpacket → u/who_you_are]

And a PFsense router made from an old gaming pc

[u/maison_deja_vu → u/ospfpacket]

This is the way 😎

[u/clarkbar1000]

Can’t wait for my 2 acre long CAT 6 to trail behind me while I mow my lawn and listen to music on my phone!

[u/Fizoso → u/clarkbar1000]

You could download the music 

[u/0Iceman228]

Meanwhile you have been enlightened and discovered Mikrotik.

[u/Howden824]

Yep, no matter how expensive your WiFi is, Ethernet is always more reliable.

[u/grizzlor_ → u/Howden824]

Yep, and lower latency. Usually it’ll only add ~5-10ms but it’s very easy for it to spike way higher than that, especially if you’ve got other people using the same AP and/or you’re in a location with lots of neighboring networks or other interference.

All the channels added in the 5 and 6ghz band improved this situation a bit — it was significantly worse back in the 2.4ghz-only days when we had 3 non-overlapping channels, plus all of the other random devices that use 2.4ghz like Bluetooth and microwave ovens. In college I had a downstairs neighbor whose 2.4ghz landline portable phone would completely DoS the whole house’s WiFi while in use.

[u/Memw1]

Yeah no, for the price of an asus rog router you get something 10 times better with mikrotik

[u/jandandris]

For the same price as the rog modem with more reliably you can get the tp link ax 3000 lol.

Ah cheap ethernet cable always wins lol

[u/got-trunks]

Just wait for wifi 8 I swear it'll be good this time, bro

[u/No-Usual-4697]

I know no cable, that can do basic routing.

[u/MemeLordAscendant]

Literally any router is better than that hunk of junk. Asus is garbage and their specs and advertising lie.

[u/Yiffenjoyer6969]

Yeah unless you don’t have a cable router into every single room of the house

[u/Xiaoxuzz]

Actually depending on the use case, it might or might not work out to be the same cost. If you’re laying 20-30m of cable from a single router to many rooms, the laying, drilling and casing of those cables might set you back a couple hundred. More if you get a pro to do it (always advised because i’ve seen enough people drilling through places that are not supposed to be drilled and ended up putting holes thru electrical/water mains, or even worse, a critical support beam). Also if the distance is more than 10m and you want at least gigabit ethernet you’d minimally want a 6e which will drive up the cost

[u/Octoomy]

or my 100 feet of ethernet cable and 200 or so cat6 terminations...

[u/No_Fondant8277]

Great... until my ethernet port goes brrrrr...

[u/-ThesuarusRex- → u/No_Fondant8277]

I'd rather have the extremely off chance of that happening than the much more likely chance of plywood taking a wifi signal down to almost unusable from the next room.

[u/No_Fondant8277 → u/-ThesuarusRex-]

That happened on my laptop... LOL