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If you buy a house before wiring for network was common, you can check the phone outlets. A lot of homes use Cat 5 for the phone cable so those outlets can be r
by JustSomeNobody 8y ago
If you buy a house before wiring for network was common, you can check the phone outlets. A lot of homes use Cat 5 for the phone cable so those outlets can be repurposed for networking.
- jdietrich 8y agoWith the right modems, you can run ethernet over any spare length of twisted pair or coax. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.hn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.hn
- triangleman 8y agoThat's very interesting, thank you. I have the cat5e throughout the house but in a ring topology as it was wired for phones only. RIght now I just have two points connected end to end. Next step is to think of a clever way to use the 2 unused pairs to support another 100BaseT and create a fake hub and spoke topology. This G.hn standard might be a good way to get even more performance out of this setup.
- tinus_hn 8y agoMakes sense considering you can get (A)DSL over the same kind of cables.
- madrix999 8y agoNever knew that was a thing, i definitely need to try it out now
- kylek 8y agoAnother (albeit, terrible) solution is HomePlug[0]. I once had broadband installed in an apartment and was provided with a couple cheap "ethernet over power" wallworts. I think the tech has improved, but they seemed to get a massive amount of interference (I think they capped out at like 65mbps?). I think I lost connections whenever the microwave was turned on. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HomePlug https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HomePlug (edit: just noticed "ethernet over power" mentioned in another comment here. Same thing)
- amiga-workbench 8y agoMy houses wiring is pretty new and although my homeplug units are advertised to run at up to 500mbps, I get about 300mbps out of them which isn't terrible.
- petemc_ 8y agoI have heard ham radio types complaining about the HF interference these devices generate.
- Sammi 8y agoWhere can I buy hardware for this?
- doublepg23 8y agoSearch for "Powerline" or similar on Amazon.
- Sammi 8y agoI was hoping for something over phone lines not power lines. Power lines tend to have far too much appliance noise.
- tzs 8y agoIf that doesn't work, and you either don't look up often or you don't mind a little ugliness, I've found running cable along the tops of walls near the ceiling works pretty well, and is easy to do. Here's part of my home network cable run and also part of the speaker cable run for the right rear surround sound channel [1]. Where a cable needs to make a turn to follow a corner, I screw in a cup hook. For support along a straight section of wall I nail a wire nail partly in and hang the cable on the protruding part. [1] https://imgur.com/GVEiubN https://imgur.com/GVEiubN
- cortesoft 8y agoYeah, I have something like that and my wife hates it. It DOES look pretty bad.
- rb808 8y agoYeah my wife would kill me. Something like this would be good, not sure where you get though. (LOL now I read the watermark, it tells you) https://i.pinimg.com/736x/43/cc/e2/43cce2542a8cd5c3ca13f360422128fe.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/736x/43/cc/e2/43cce2542a8cd5c3ca13f3604...
- arcticbull 8y agoHave you considered CableOrganizer.com? :P
- erikcw 8y agoYou could hide it with some crown molding.
- moftz 8y agoIf you want to do the work, adding in crown molding after running some cat6 can make the room look much nicer if the style fits. You can then drill a hole in the drywall at the top of the wall, drop the cable down between the studs and install an actual outlet. Crown molding usually has a decent amount of space to run a few cables.
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- CivBase 8y agoThis was one of my highest priorities after buying my current house and it was well worth the effort. The cable line in my livingroom connects to a modem. The modem feeds into a wifi router so that I get a good signal throughout most of the house. One of the ports in the router's on-board switch feeds into a wall outlet, which connects to a master switch in the basement. I could never go back to pure wifi. What I find strange is that, like the OP said, the original network was setup for phone outlets... but the house was only a couple years old. Are RJ11 phone networks really still a bigger selling point than RJ45 switched networks? With the high adoption of cellphones and the increasing demand for internet-connected devices, it seems like RJ45 should be standard.
- sh-run 8y agoI recently bought a house built in the 1960s. It's surprisingly easy to add Cat6 to an older home as the interior walls aren't insulated. I've been adding drops as needed and it takes me about 30 minutes start to finish to run a new drop. I'm out the cost of materials (maybe $200?) and the price of having an electrician add an outlet to my "MDF"/hall closet ($175).
- JudgeWapner 8y agoDont forget about powerline-to-ethernet adapters, esp if you only have a small number of devices or dont need full gigabit bandwidth. experience varies, but if the two endpoints are on the same breaker, you can get > 100mbps, and if it has to cross breakers, you can (potentially) still get over 1mbs, which is enough for streaming and basic surfing. Much easier than running wire or messing with drywall if you're not handiman-inclined.
- hinkley 8y agoThat’ll depend on how or if they daisy chained the phone jacks. You should be able to get at least one Ethernet connection (two ends) but beyond that you might have to get creative. If you put your modem at the same jack where the first tee in the line is, you should be able to get at least two connections, but for more than that you may need a switch at each tee.