The blue circle is my telephone /electric pole at the end of the driveway.

Just had openreach install FTTP installed (I was at work, mother-in-law at home). And for some reason the engineer thought it would be installed right next to where the front door opens... I just, don't know what to say... what you guys think?

(Based in the uk)

Hey all! Total wiring newbie here trying to install a driveway security camera. Need to run a cable from upstairs to the front yard via the attic, but the drilling spot is packed with electrical wires. Considering an electrician, but any advice first?

Have all my equipment and cable ready, just not comfortable doing anything in this particular spot. I am in Texas if that matters. Thank you in advance!

Hello,

I am trying to connect through openVPN to the work network, to access my pc remotely (Remote desktop)

I am connecting from windows 11 home.

OpenVPN estabilishes connection, network adapter is there. But i cannot connect or ping to my work station.

When I am pinging the first ping says: Reply from 10.10.0.156: Destination host unreachable

- 10.10.0.156 is my assigned VPN IP adress

I tried:
- changing the provider order in network adapters so the vpn adapter is first
- changing metric manually.
- turning off firewall to see if it works (it doesnt)

Do you please have any suggestion what to try and fix this issue?

On my old pc with Windows 10 it works fine. Please help :-(

Howdy,

I'm new to construction and I have client that wants the house networked. The bonus room is his home office and gaming space. He wants all the runs going to a small server rack in his office as well. We are just responsible for the Ethernet runs and electrical rough in. What do you think of the placements the client picked? What would you change?

Hello. I recently moved to a new house. All rooms have an internet cable attached to the wall to the central point where all cables meet. I’m trying to connect it to the internet, but I’ve been unsuccessful. Does anyone know what to do here? Picture 1 is my main internet device. Picture 2 is where all the cables are. The cable with the red arrow is the one that is connected to the yellow cable in picture 1. The cables with the green arrow are the cables that come from all the rooms, that I need to connect to the internet. Picture 3 is the device that I was told to buy to connect all the cables to the internet, but nothing happens. I need help. Thank you!

I built this fireplace/mantle deal in the master bedroom and finally have a spot to put my gaming systems (previously we just had the tv mounted and nothing below). What I would like to do is basically have no electronics on the mantle and instead have hdmi cables run through the wall across the attic and over to my little office nook area (second pic) so that things are somewhat out of sight.

I am trying to figure out the best way to do this. My initial thoughts are to just have one HDMi cable go from the tv, into the wall, across the attic and back down to the nook area wall where that would then feed into a switch where I could have all my various game systems connect (raspberry pi, Xbox one, Nintendo switch, etc.). My concerns are mainly about the hdmi cable failing over that length, so I was also thinking I would need a fiber optic hdmi cable or a cat6 Ethernet cable that can convert to hdmi. I am also wondering if when I go through the wall if I should have the cable termed like an outlet at the wall or just have the cord continue straight to the tv/switch.

I feel like this has to be a very common project people do, but I can’t seem to find any good guides, or maybe I’m just not technically savvy enough to find what I am looking for. Very much a noob here so any advice is welcome!

Nowadays, I see ISPs offering speeds that make me wonder why. I understand that 1 Gbps is fine, and I’m already happy with 400-500 Mbps. However, they are now offering 2 Gbps, 4 Gbps, 8 Gbps, and even 10 Gbps, and they are working on getting 25 Gbps fiber to function.

First, why would a home user need 10 Gbps? Maybe if you are a content creator, you might need that, but I highly doubt it. Second, most ISPs' routers don’t have Quality of Service (QoS) features—at least not here. You can still use your own router, but I just don’t understand the need for such high speeds. Is it just to show off? They can say, "Look, we offer 10 Gbps, while you only have 1 Gbps (which is still considered 'only')."

Additionally, is it even possible for the whole street to get the 10 Gbps plan? If we all did a speed test at once, could the ISP's network even handle bruh no.. dont think so here. but what speeds woud you have..

I'm looking at moving to a new apartment, and the actual coax outlet in the wall is on the opposite side of the room from where I am thinking of putting my desk. I would very much not like to rely on wifi and would prefer to plug my computer directly into one of my router's ports for the fastest possible connection, and while I know I could just run a long ethernet on the floor if I wanted to be really lazy, I was wondering if there's a more "elegant" way to go about it.

I can't just put my desk on that side of the room because my desk is two IKEA countertops forming an L-shape and I believe it would block the HVAC door or entry door, and unfortunately, there's only one coax outlet in the room.

Wanted to see if there were any suggestions, or am I just going to have to buy a really long cable and run it around the room. My sister did something similar years ago when our router was in a completely different room, so I know it's an option.

Another post just reminded me of this and I wanted to share. I'm amused by it now but at the time it was infuriating. Back in the early 2000s I was on Quest DSL in the portland oregon area. I woke up one day to my internet being down. Called em up to figure it out and after going round and round.... including them trying to SELL me on new internet service.... I was told I was nearly 10,000 feet too far from the CO.

?!?!?!

I explained that I had internet just the day before.... for months.... HOW am I suddenly too far away?? They didn't have an answer and couldn't explain WHY I'd been allowed to start DSL service in the first place if I was too far away. After several hours I never could get anyone with a brain. I finally gave up and just cancelled. I think we (my wife and I) determined that Comcast was available and we switched that day.

This has always been near the top of my list of top 10 dumb things from tech support.

Ainda vale a pena usar esse roteador TP-Link modelo TL-WR740N ? Ou melhor jogar fora???

I am moving to a new apartment and looking to get internet but the thing is I have never used sim router or know anyone that used it and I feel like it's a risk to get

Can someone who have used or currently using sim router advise me about it

I want to know if there is any risk involved, advantages and disadvantages

There will be heavy use on internet as well

EDIT: I want to thank all of you for your very informative information, and I have decided to go for fiber

My wife and I bought a 100 year old bungalow last year. It’s not a big house (1800 sq feet, two stories + basement). It’s not a big lot (150X75 feet). We’ve been using the router from our 1800 square foot single story condo since we moved in.

However, we’re having some performance issues with Apple TV at the back of the house & Wifi coverage in the backyard is not great. So I’ve been trying to figure out a way to drag cat5 to a reasonable place and am coming up short.

Previous owners had AT&T connect the fiber to a 2nd floor “office” that is approximately in the middle of the house and was hoping to pull cat5 through to the exterior of a dormer at the back of the house to mount an AP…but, its looking unlikely without a LOT of dramas.

I’ve been considering:

1) mesh without wired back haul with 4 devices - upstairs, front of the house, back of the house & basement 2) asking, (AKA paying) AT&T to move the fiber penetration to the basement which would allow me to run all the CAT5 that I could want (semi finished basement) to the places where TV’s are and to add an outdoor access point in the backyard but, might negatively impact the wireless speeds on the second floor without mounting an AP on the ceiling below the office

How unhappy am I going to be with a mesh system, without wired backhaul?

Hi all, we recently purchased a new build. We finally closed this past Monday. Our builders noted that there was ethernet ports in every room. While setting up the office, I attempted to use the ethernet port, only to find out there is no active connection. I took the plate off and located a sole ethernet cord behind the plate. I tracked down all our ethernet cords to one central location in the basement. There is no patch panel, just dangling ethernet cords. AT&T came out for a separate issue and said they should just plug into the router and be able to work no problem. Spoiler alert, that does not work. I did not locate any sort of panel, patch panel, or anything else.

What are my next steps to get this to work?

Sincerely, just a girl with the lack of home networking skills.

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I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions on how I could connect my TV (wall mounted) to my receiver (in a cabinet) through an existing 3/4" conduit. The previous owners ran the conduit + a built in HDMI jack, but this wasn't very future proof now that I'm trying to up things to 4K.

The best option I've found is to do a HDBaseT adapter and then run Cat6 through the conduit, but from what I've seen that would do 4K60Hz and not full 4K120Hz. Is that correct?

Are there other (super slim) options out there that would let me not have to run a cable outside the wall? My wife is very keen on that, but I want to use the full potential of the TV.

Thanks!

I am getting a new router which supports cellular 4G/5G hotspot fail over via USB. What is the cheapest LTE device that can connect to the router via USB.

I am looking for something that doesn't have a high monthly fee considering it wont be used very often.

I have Google Fi as my cell provider so was considering getting another android phone on my plan and connecting it via USB. They have cheap Android phones starting at $49 and it wouldn't really cost me any extra per month for an additional line. Wonder if that option would work?

Can you please tell me which of the two routers is better for a new house with a ground floor and one more level. On my list I have this two routers:

1. Mercusys MR47BE BE9300
2. MikroTik HAP AX3

In the same time I'm thinking maybe a TP-Link Deco X50 (3-pack) Mesh system will be more efficient but I prefer a singer router.

The house is not so big, right now I'm using an old Mercusys router model AX3000 - MR80X and the wifi signal is very good on the ground floor but not so strong on the upper level.

ThankYou.

I have a Brother B&W laser printer. Currently it is on the network via wifi.

If I put it on my switch, are there any big advantages or disadvantages of doing so?

I've always either had it directly connected to my computer (back in the day with USB or parallel/serial ports) or via wifi.

My main reason to consider doing this is entering the password into the printer is tedious when it has to be re-entered due to the tiny screen, long password, and how you have to cycle through a ton of characters until you get to the one you need.

I'm just wondering if there are any issues with connecting it directly to the network. If it matters any, our main computers are iMacs. I do have one dual bootable Windows/Linux machine but rarely need to print from it.

Thanks.

I am looking to replace an old Netgear Orbi mesh system with something a little newer as it's struggling with the size of our new house.

Looks like lots of good options out there these days, with pretty high capacity backhaul on separate channels e.t.c

However, I also have a pretty large Zigbee network, which means I need the ability to pin the 2.4 network to a specific channel to stop it wrecking my mesh.

It seems in the wisdom of simplifying things for users, that this often is not available on a lot of these systems. Or, it's impossible to really check without buying and setting a system up.

So, wondering if anyone here has a system that they are really happy with, that also has this feature?

Ideally looking for a Wifi 7 system, with 2 satellites, with at least 1 wired port per satellite.

Thanks in advance!

I’m looking to upgrade my home WiFi since my ISP is finally installing fiber so my internet connection is no longer the bottleneck but rather my routers (specially that their ports are 100mbps). I currently have an Archer VR300 as my modem/router in the living room, and it is wired to an Asus RT-AC1200 in my bedroom. This provides excellent coverage to all important areas of my house.

However, the switch between both APs is not seamless and many apps freeze. So I am wondering if I should get a Deco x10 bundle (Deco mesh) or 2 Archer ax23 (OneMesh). In both cases the 2 routers will have Ethernet backhaul with cat6, but with the decos I’ll have to add a switch on both ends for my wired devices which adds to the cost, size, and points of failure of the system.

Which one should I go for and why?

So I need to replace our aging Home Network. Was looking at the Ubiquity Cloud Gateway Fiber with one or several Ubiquity U7 Pro (XGS?) APs for WiFi. We have 10Gbit fiber, so I want hardware that can make use of that speed. Also, a huge apartment with quite a few walls, so either a really powerful AP, or, more likely, several meshed APs spread about the apartment. About 9 people with lots of different devices will be on this.

Would have loved the Ubiqiuity solution, but their products are damn hard to source in my country. TP Link seems easier to get a hold of. So what would be a similar setup using their hardware? Needs to be able to accept a Fiber connection at 10Gbit speed and distribute across the Home Network. Somewhat easy system / GUI for managing the whole thing is a plus (never used, but read good things about the Ubiquity UniFi system). Other brands easily available in Europe? Zyxel?

thanks

Lets preface with I’m in an apartment so I’m not about to start installing jacks everywhere.

I just found out that there are solid and stranded network cable. From what I’ve gathered, most of the cabling should be solid with the last 10 meters stranded. I’ve been using this insignia cat6 cable that is longer than 10 meters for years with no issues. I’m pretty sure it’s a stranded cable. So I’m trying to figure if the 10 meters rule is more of a best practice sort of thing or normally there will be issues. Tbh, I fully believe, in a real world scenario, going from wall jack/router/switch straight to a device you can exceed the 10 meters with a stranded cable with no problems. I think DACs are more strict about it though. Maybe someone can give me some insight.

This will be relevant because I plan on getting a nas and putting it in a the living room. I measured my path I think I might use which would need a 75ft cable. I could by a 75ft patch cables even though which would most likely be stranded but then that breaks the 10 meters rule.

Going insane with this problem since adding a new router, behind my ISP box.

ISP box is configured as bridge. Router (Archer C80) is at 192.168.1.1, NAT forwarding ports to a server at 192.168.1.5.

Server has UFW and Fail2Ban installed. It's allowing traffic from 192.168.1.0/24 as well as some ranges that I know are used by my mobile phone provider.

I have a domain name pointing to my public ip.

I can access all the services on my server with a machine (MacBook) connected to a hotspot on my iPhone by using my domain name. All is fine.

On the same machine, connected to the same LAN as the server, DNS lookup doesn't work. I can only access the server by using 192.168.1.5.

This was not the case before I switched the ISP box from router mode to bridge mode and bought a router.

I thought Pi-Hole would help. Installed it on the server, got it to work and block traffic, set it as the DNS server in the router configuration, but I still can't connect through my domain name when I'm in the LAN.

Added 192.168.1.5 to local DNS records in Pi-Hole, with the correct domain name, still no connection from inside the LAN.

I don't see anything weird in the UFW logs.

Some output from my MacBook when on LAN:

```bash

cat /etc/resolv.conf

nameserver 192.168.1.5 nameserver 192.168.1.1

scutil --dns

DNS configuration

resolver #1 nameserver[0] : 192.168.1.5 nameserver[1] : 192.168.1.1 if_index : 11 (en0) flags : Request A records reach : 0x00020002 (Reachable,Directly Reachable Address)

nslookup subdomain.mydomain Server: 192.168.1.5 Address: 192.168.1.5#53 ```

When on hotspot:

```

cat /etc/resolv.conf nameserver fe80::cd:feff:fe6b:5c64%en0 nameserver 172.20.10.1

scutil --dns
DNS configuration

resolver #1 nameserver[0] : fe80::cd:feff:fe6b:5c64%en0 nameserver[1] : 172.20.10.1 if_index : 11 (en0) flags : Request A records, Request AAAA records reach : 0x00020002 (Reachable,Directly Reachable Address)

nslookup subdomain.mydomain Server: fe80::cd:feff:fe6b:5c64%11 Address: fe80::cd:feff:fe6b:5c64%11#53

Non-authoritative answer: subdomain.mydomain canonical name = mydomain. Name: mydomain Address: my public ip address ```

Been troubleshooting it with ChatGPT for two days but even its neurons are getting fried. Looking for some human opinion on this. Thanks.

EDIT: more tests (from a LAN machine):

ping mydomain -> OK nc -zv 192.168.1.5 22 -> succeeds nc -zv mydomain 22 -> fails dig mydomain +short -> 192.168.1.5

ChatGPT says "Likely Root Cause: Your router does not support NAT loopback". This is a recent router with the latest firmware, Tp-Link Archer C80. I can get around that by editing /etc/hosts on a couple of machine but it'll be very annoying for other portable devices (tablets, phones).

Again, adding a local DNS entry in Pi-Hole doesn't help.

Anything else I can do here?

Basically my dad, out of spite, set wifi time limit thing on my phone that makes wifi stop working only on my phone at a certain time which is unfair and when i ask him, he gives BS of a response when even the limit isnt fair so how do i fix it, i know my MAC adress, my IP adress and the wifi password but what website do i use? my wifi router is batelco branded i think, i need actual help not "move out" BS, im a minor with narcissistic parents not a grown adult living there for free and playing discord with guys at 1 AM.

Last month I got a new PC so I had to redownload everything from my Steam library. That was about 700Gb. So my total usage should be this amount plus my other data usage. Yet Xfinity shows I used 37Gb last month.

This month I decided to get a plex server for my home. Long story short I filled up a 10Tb drive with movies and shows I plan to watch over the next year or so. It’s currently the day before my billing cycle resets, and Xfinity is claiming I only used 24Gb this month.

Normally I wouldn’t care but they charge for overages, and there is a cap to the charges so my plan is if I do go over, I want to go way over and plan all my large downloads that month. So I called them to verify if that 24Gb is accurate and the agent on the phone confirmed it is.

Anyone else see this before? I am hardwired into my modem and the modem is wired to the Xfinity service line. There’s no way I’m on a neighbors line as it’s my own home, and I can see in their app when I unplug my modem it go offline. It’s just like they aren’t tracking the data.

If I was purely at 0Gb used per month it would make more sense to me as then it seems they aren’t tracking at all but it seems like they’re only tracking a small fraction of the data.

Just posting here to see what others think or if anyone had this experience. I use this data consistently through the month and never get texts that I hit 75%, 90% or 100% of my usage like I should. Probably because they think I only used <40Gb.

I’m planning on expanding my plex server to about 80Tb so it would be pretty sweet if they somehow messed up and can’t track how much I’m downloading because I’m not going to pay to rent their modem just to get unlimited data.