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This would be useful for the gigabit runs in my house that aren't quite up to spec. Usually it's a single pair that was damaged by a finishing contractor.
by mmastrac 5y ago
This would be useful for the gigabit runs in my house that aren't quite up to spec. Usually it's a single pair that was damaged by a finishing contractor.
- meibo 5y agoSame here, house was built around 1900 and they really never intended you to run anything more than power... Basically impossible to get anything else through without tearing up the flooring/wall, and the rooms are askew too. Damaged a CAT-8 a little while ago, trying to pull it into my office.
- collegeburner 5y agoWhy spend on cat8? You have that bandwidth on a home connection? Or a nas capable of serving it?
- din-9 5y agoGiven the effort required to put cabling in e.g. mine is underneath plaster, future proofing it as best you can could save aggravation in the kind of timeframe that people live in houses for.
- justsomehnguy 5y ago> future proofing The best future proofing thing you can do in a living house is lay down at least x2 cable per drop.
- goatsi 5y agoThe best future proofing is running a conduit, not just copper.
- meibo 5y agoIt wasn't that much more expensive and I knew that it was going to be such a pain that I was happy to do it once and future-proof. Probably won't max it out in my lifetime, but it's nice to have options.
- collegeburner 5y agoI remember 3 years ago I moved houses and had 1 jack with really bad performance. Looked in the attic and found that somebody had (for no reason) spliced the cable. With wire nuts. 1 per wire.
- reilly3000 5y agoThat is kind of amazing that it worked at all.
- justsomehnguy 5y ago10/100BaseT is quite robust one. I did an Y-splice for three computers, without switch/hub, it worked. I saw a damaged link with 50% loss on 3com 905 on the server end, RDP was unusable. Replaced with RTL8139 (other side was the same lost to time noname unmanaged switch) - less than 5% loss with ICMP ping. RDP worked fine.
- sephamorr 5y agoI just moved into a house where the contractor thought you could daisy chain ethernet like a standard phone line. The ports at the end of the chain did work amazingly, but unsurprisingly, the ones in the middle with tens of feet of unterminated stubs... Didn't.
- justsomehnguy 5y agoPowerLine adapters exists. Not the best solution, and usually quite pricey, but it works. If your power cabling is not from 1900 too. *grin*