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nullcompany t1_iw8btqt wrote

white-orange, orange: the sun, up high

white-green, blue: the sky

white-blue, green: the grass

white-brown, brown, the dirt, below

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teeeray t1_iw8htlf wrote

black-blue, red: my bloody knuckles when I punch the wall when the cable doesn’t work anyway

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ilotek t1_iw9bwcf wrote

What’s your skill level? You would save a ton of money doing it yourself..

I ran the cables myself using the old unneeded rj11 cable to pull my cat6 into all the rooms.

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tehproxy t1_iwl8h1z wrote

Did you find that some of them were stapled in? I have a bunch of old phone cables that I want to pull, but I'm afraid to try and see if they are straight pulls or not.

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asavoy6 t1_iw8f8t9 wrote

Hardy Electric installed ours. I’d highly recommend them! Very fairly priced and great work.

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nullcompany t1_iw8ivmb wrote

I think there's a typo, where it says 12ahUKEwj

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movdqa t1_iw94oy1 wrote

I did it myself about 15 years ago using parts from Home Depot. Getting it between floors was the hardest part. I reused the cable conduits.

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DemonDuo t1_iwcn6oo wrote

Average cost is $120 per hour for one tech jobs. $50 per cable ran and price of patch panel and jacks.

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jkarovskaya t1_iwa6nea wrote

Even if your house is 100 feet long, there's really no need for running Cat6 anymore given the quality of new gig routers and access points using 802.11ax and newish laptops or desktops with good wifi adapters

I recently upgraded to gig fiber, and bought a pair of TP-Link AX5400 units.

Using one as the gateway/router and one located in my shop 80 feet from the house as access point, the range, power, and throughput on these is more than adequate even for serious torrenting or backup to cloud

A pair of those will cost way less than hiring someone to pull cable and install a patch panel

Even if you're running a business with 20 hosts, you could use wifi with good routers, and at least a 500mb ISP connection

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quaffee t1_iwdjwnt wrote

Eh, having multiple hotspots really only works well if they have Ethernet backhaul. Even with a mesh network. Especially with multiple users connecting to different APs. Then you have to think about signal attenuation. In a house with lots of walls (some with wire mesh), modern appliances etc, all that stuff in the way is going to take a big bite out of the bandwidth at the receiving end.

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movdqa t1_iwgrey2 wrote

If you're in a dense neighborhood, you also have to deal with radio signals from neighbors.

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jkarovskaya t1_iwdub2o wrote

Houses with wire mesh are very rare in New England. except for exterior walls with stucco.

99% of old houses with interior horsehair plaster used wooden lath

Only commercial buildings with plaster walls used wire substrate and most of those were built long ago

My TP link routers are giving me very good wifi bandwidth, even 120 feet down the driveway, and 80 feet away through many walls in my shop

YMMV

I just can't see paying someone to run Cat6 in the average residence, unless you're running a commercial operation of some kind with servers or you need to feed outbuildings, etc

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PoorInCT t1_iwjghnh wrote

Is there a really good prosumer router that will do 500 mb/sec and take an outside antenna? Maybe something to look for on eBay? Im not ready for mesh networking.

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movdqa t1_iwbr6vh wrote

Another option may be Powerline Ethernet. If you need dedicated Ethernet, you can hook up one end to your router and the other unit would be where you need the connection. If you only need WiFi, then you could put a WiFi router at the remote end. If you need multiple Ethernet ports, then you could add a switch at the remote end. Speeds on Powerline are Gigabit these days so it should work well unless you need 2.5 GB or 10 GB.

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