My wife and I recently moved to a new apartment to be more in between where we both work (she had a longer commute, which is now shorter). Sometimes I like to geek out over little things.. This is the first apartment I've ever seen that's wired with ethernet ports in each room, and I think that's handy for setting up computers & such in other rooms - and it's also more reliable for things like streaming devices compared to using wifi.

That wasn't a major factor in choosing this apartment; we simply liked this apartment better than the others we saw. I was surprised to see an apartment wired for ethernet; most houses aren't even wired for ethernet (though maybe newly built houses are these days; I just haven't seen many with ethernet).

The ethernet ports all go to a panel in the master bedroom closet, which is also where our fiber internet terminal is. I set up our router to hang on the wall in there (with a couple of push pins), connected to the fiber internet terminal and to the ethernet ports there. That way, the router is neatly hidden away in the closet, and I don't need to have a long ethernet cable strewn across the apartment to connect my computers like I did in our previous apartment. And our streaming devices for TV can simply plug into the ethernet port in the wall too. I just like how it makes for a neater network setup.

Nightfox

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Re: Little thing to geek out over: Ethernet wiring
By: Nightfox to All on Sat Nov 07 2026 01:40 am

My wife and I recently moved to a new apartment to be more in between where we both work (she had a longer commute, which is now shorter). Sometimes I like to geek out over little things.. This is the first apartment I've ever seen that's wired with ethernet ports in each room, and I think that's handy for setting up computers & such in other rooms - and it's also more reliable for things like streaming devices compared to using wifi.

I also have fiber, But I have a decent WiFi router, my computers in the Den are using ethernet, all other connections are on reliable fast WiFI, never had a problem with WiFi.

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Outlaw wrote to Nightfox <=-

I also have fiber, But I have a decent WiFi router, my computers in
the Den are using ethernet, all other connections are on reliable fast WiFI, never had a problem with WiFi.

Are you on a single floor? That's always the killer for me. I have
two layers of soundproofing between floors, and that seems to kill
wireless. My upper floor office is almost directly above the router on
the bottom floor, but I barely get signal.

I limped along with powerline ethernet for some time, but bit the bullet
and ran ethernet between the floors and put a $5 router upstairs,
configured as an access point. I'm so glad I did.



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Re: Re: Little thing to geek out over: Ethernet wiring
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Outlaw on Sun Nov 08 2026 09:20 am

I also have fiber, But I have a decent WiFi router, my computers in the
Den are using ethernet, all other connections are on reliable fast WiFI,
never had a problem with WiFi.

Are you on a single floor? That's always the killer for me. I have two layers of soundproofing between floors, and that seems to kill wireless. My upper floor office is almost directly above the router on the bottom floor, but I barely get signal.

No I have a full finished basment below the top floor, My WiFi gets great signal everywhere in the house, I also get good signal everywhere on my 1/2 acre lot.

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Outlaw wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

No I have a full finished basment below the top floor, My WiFi gets
great signal everywhere in the house, I also get good signal everywhere
on my 1/2 acre lot.

When I was part of FON, a bandwidth sharing service, I bought a
directional WiFi antenna. That was a lot of fun, I had an outbuilding
about 150 feet from the house that was my office and a guest house. With
the directional antenna, I got full signal through a house and two
exterior walls.



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Re: Re: Little thing to geek out over: Ethernet wiring
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Outlaw on Mon Nov 09 2026 08:05 am

No I have a full finished basment below the top floor, My WiFi gets great
signal everywhere in the house, I also get good signal everywhere on my
1/2 acre lot.

When I was part of FON, a bandwidth sharing service, I bought a directional WiFi antenna. That was a lot of fun, I had an outbuilding about 150 feet from the house that was my office and a guest house. With the directional antenna, I got full signal through a house and two exterior walls.

My router has 6 directional antena's, never thought I'd ever buy a TP-Link router, I have used an awesome TP-Link switch for many years and it's still going strong, so I bought a tp-link router and have been pretty impressed with it.

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Re: Re: Little thing to geek out over: Ethernet wiring
By: Outlaw to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Nov 09 2026 10:52 pm

My router has 6 directional antena's, never thought I'd ever buy a TP-Link router, I have used an awesome TP-Link switch for many years and it's still going strong, so I bought a tp-link router and have been pretty impressed with it.

I bought a TP-Link router once in 2008 and its wifi was very weak.. I've heard TP-Link routers have gotten a lot better though. I've heard their switches have always been good.

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Re: Re: Little thing to geek out over: Ethernet wiring
By: Nightfox to Outlaw on Tue Nov 10 2026 05:46 pm

My router has 6 directional antena's, never thought I'd ever buy a
TP-Link router, I have used an awesome TP-Link switch for many years and
it's still going strong, so I bought a tp-link router and have been
pretty impressed with it.

I bought a TP-Link router once in 2008 and its wifi was very weak.. I've heard TP-Link routers have gotten a lot better though. I've heard their switches have always been good.

Yes these new TP-Link routers put out awesomw WiFi signals, I have been running this router for about 2 years now.

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Outlaw wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

My router has 6 directional antena's, never thought I'd ever buy a TP-Link router, I have used an awesome TP-Link switch for many years
and it's still going strong, so I bought a tp-link router and have been pretty impressed with it.

My favorite router of late has been the Linksys WRT1900/3200 ACS series.
They're blue and black, reminiscent of the old WRT54G series routers,
have enough cores and memory for my needs, and run OpenWRT just fine.

One nice thing about the Linksys, and I don't think other brands do
this - it's got 2 firmware slots. When you first upload OpenWRT to it,
it takes up one slot. If the router bricks and doesn't boot 3 times in
a row, it automatically switches to the second slot with the untouched
firmware. You could keep stock firmware on the second slot, or upgrade
one slot, test it, then upgrade the second.

They're cheap on the used market now.

The YouTube channel "Hardware Haven" has some interesting bits - I
watched a an episode with a Riverbed CX570 WAN appliance, sounds like a
commodity router box running a Pentium with 2 cores, DDR memory, an SSD
and a SATA drive and 6 gig ports for under $100 on eBay? Might be a fun
project, I've wanted to play with OpnSense.



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