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A run of ethernet cable costs money to install, but once done it uses no power, zero maintenance and gives you 1000Mbs or more full duplex reliably. (I'd disca

A run of ethernet cable costs money to install, but once done it uses no power, zero maintenance and gives you 1000Mbs or more full duplex reliably. (I'd discard Ethernet over Power before Wifi, cable is so much nicer).

fmajid 6y ago
Not an option for rentals, sadly.
- tom_ 6y ago
  I've been using ethernet cables at home recently, on account of having a bunch of work stuff here. Ethernet = better, more consistent throughput. So I've settled on using rubber cable floor covers. They don't look very good, but they're perfectly practical: cheap, much reduced trip risk, no need to open up the walls or tape/nail anything to them to get everything arranged. (Not sure how I'd feel about this on a permanent basis, though. Once it's back to just me, my laptop, my iPad, and my phone, the internet connection will be the bottleneck again, and I'll be switching back to nothing but wifi...)
  - fmajid 6y ago
    I take it you don't have a wife :-)
maccard 6y ago
All my walls are solid brick, so it's a choice of cabling tacked to skirting boards, cabling under the floors or excavations. I'd pick powerline over those options.
- nmcveity 6y ago
  All my walls are solid concrete. I recently had the house cabled up because the powerline stuff dropped multiple times a day for 5 minutes at a time. It was infuriating. The cabling runs through the ceiling and dropped down to port height via electrical conduit on the external side of the wall. It was expensive but I would have paid more considering the quality of life improvement.
  - maccard 6y ago
    I spent a couple of hundred on a mesh wifi system and while it has two downsides (double nat, and a higher base latency of around 6ms instead of <1ms to the router) it's otherwise flawless. I have a small flat (500 sq ft) and it took 3 carefully positioned mesh points (within LOS of each other) but it works great.

fmajid 6y ago

Not an option for rentals, sadly.

tom_ 6y ago
I've been using ethernet cables at home recently, on account of having a bunch of work stuff here. Ethernet = better, more consistent throughput. So I've settled on using rubber cable floor covers. They don't look very good, but they're perfectly practical: cheap, much reduced trip risk, no need to open up the walls or tape/nail anything to them to get everything arranged. (Not sure how I'd feel about this on a permanent basis, though. Once it's back to just me, my laptop, my iPad, and my phone, the internet connection will be the bottleneck again, and I'll be switching back to nothing but wifi...)
- fmajid 6y ago
  I take it you don't have a wife :-)

maccard 6y ago

All my walls are solid brick, so it's a choice of cabling tacked to skirting boards, cabling under the floors or excavations. I'd pick powerline over those options.

nmcveity 6y ago
All my walls are solid concrete. I recently had the house cabled up because the powerline stuff dropped multiple times a day for 5 minutes at a time. It was infuriating. The cabling runs through the ceiling and dropped down to port height via electrical conduit on the external side of the wall. It was expensive but I would have paid more considering the quality of life improvement.
- maccard 6y ago
  I spent a couple of hundred on a mesh wifi system and while it has two downsides (double nat, and a higher base latency of around 6ms instead of <1ms to the router) it's otherwise flawless. I have a small flat (500 sq ft) and it took 3 carefully positioned mesh points (within LOS of each other) but it works great.