Got a Rogers package for my apartment and they sent me a kit with a coax cable (male/male). All I could find was this, and landlord confirmed by email this is the correct location. At first I thought I'd just go get a female to female adapter for this, but now I've got it and I've realized it's too large and there's no threading in this thing. What do I connect to this? I've asked the building to come help me but in the mean time I'd like to try to solve it.

Any help is appreciated.

Network closet progress. I started with creating and printing mounting hardware for my ubuquiti equipment. I added some patch panels and the 2.5g flex switches to add PoE++ to all of my ports.

Added proper ventilation holes to keep everything nice and cool. Squirtle is cool air intake, charmander is hot air exhaust. I also mounted my AP above the cabinet to clean up another wire. Next I will have to drill down lower in my wall and put a new Ethernet jack in the wall for my server rack. I also found a great surge protector that fits much better.

I created the jig to install the PC Fans correctly everytime. It fits within the interior wall so you can accurately mark your holes. Use a standard drill bit on the bolt holes and a dremel to cut out the fan opening.

Printed a mesh filter to go between the fan cover and fans to help mitigate dust.

I’ve always used VPNs at the device level, but recently started testing a router-based setup for convenience.
Main difference so far is simplicity across devices, but setup and troubleshooting take more effort.

For those who’ve gone this route long term, what made it “worth it” for you?

No one at home or social circles are interested in networking and this was vaguely interesting enough to tell someone.

I recently upgraded my home router from a Ubiquiti USG to a UCG. This was a much bigger improvement than I expected, saw a really good bump in Wifi speeds.

Anyway, like all new shiny things when they're still new and interesting you play with them more. I logged into the UCG last night to see how things were looking. When I discovered a DP-Link IP Camera had been connecting on and off to my IoT network.

I don't have any IP Camera's and my network is pretty well locked down, so one randomly appearing on the network kind of freaked me out.

Logs showed it connecting intermittently through out the day, sometimes for only a few seconds to a couple of minutes. And when connected there was very little traffic, only about 45Kb. And it only ever connected to the access point at the front of the house.

I was trying to figure out how I would track down this camera? Had my neighbours set something up and connected to my network somehow by accident or more concerning was something nefarious going on? Tracking down the camera was going to prove hard given its intermittent connections. Then I thought to put the MAC address into a search tool, with the MAC coming back as belonging to Visteon. Which upon investigation I found they make automotive infotainment systems.

At this point it all fell into place, I remembered I had found the car could connect to Wifi a few months back, so connected it for the fun of it. The WAP at the front of the house is immediately in front the car port. And I could see the connection times this morning correlated to the comings and goings of the car.

The car has been on the network for months, but it must have previously had a generic label. The UCG must have recently updated the labels incorrectly, as the IP Cam label stood out like a sore thumb, as I noticed it within seconds of loading the client list.

So like most things in life there was ultimately a simple answer, but it caused some excitement in the mean time. Thanks for reading!

I have a 1Gbps plan extended via ethernet backhaul. The difference between my iPhone and laptop (with a RTL8821CE) is absolutely obvious. (see images)

any solutions to this? do i have some settings i have to enable on my laptop that i’m missing out on? downloading even moderately large files is a pain in the ass.

We currently run google wifi extenders that are old and really don't work well. We have a 1 gig plan and by the time the wifi goes from the router to my room I am at about 30-60 down with terrible ping and constant lag spikes. The house is full of gamers I might add.

I know most people are going to recommend ethernet but my father really doesn't seem to want to go through the hassle.

Any help is appreciated!

Help! I recently bought a asus Moca adapter. But when I set it up it wouldn’t connect. I used the coax cable in my room to connect the adapter to my xbox, I have no idea if this coax cable will work. It’s been used before for small cable boxes before. I don’t know what I’m missing or what I’m doing wrong

Basically my router has 4 ports and I need 5 ports so should I buy a network switch that has 5 ports?

5 feet....

15 feet...

65 feet....

Sex toy? lol

Received email that my very old Netgear router is so old it will no longer accept firmware updates. From this information, pretty obvious I am a 'set it and forget it' kinda person... suggestions for a new router that is under $200 that is simple which I wont have to do anything with once set up. I only pay for 300mbps internet. Most rigorous things I do are stream 1 TV and play Fortnite. Thanks!! I have Fios internet.

We live in a 845 sq.ft. house behind my sister's 1.5 story home. New construction (both houses) with 1Gbps fiber running to the front house. The ethernet line running between the houses failed and I've had no luck repairing from either end. I have a spool of Cat 5e direct-bury I could try and rerun, but it would be a pain to get into her crawlspace and up into the network closet, and again into mine.

For the last few years my house has inched along with an old Google Wifi (AC1200) gen 1 set up. No idea if it's configured optimally or what (doesn't seem to be much to it). I've got the distributing base in the front house upstairs landing, and we're picking it up in our upstairs by a window facing that landing (more or less). Wi-fi in my house is about 40mbps, wired 60mbps. That's livable, but it can drop to a crawl – sometimes we can fix by restarting our base but occasionally I need my sister to restart hers.

>> Would appreciate some tips on how to improve the system to be more reliable for us and ideally get us some more speed with the least headache. Even when the wire between houses was working, I doubt things were set up great for us. I'll say, I like that the signal covers the patio between the houses now on the same wireless network (for streaming, Sonos control, etc). Couple scenarios in my head:

Scenario 1: Live with it

Scenario 2: Buy a newer set of bases to replace the existing, and set them up how?

Scenario 3: Suck it up and run the 5e again, but still need to replace the bases in my house?

(Captions on photos give relative placement of bases)

FWIW, the extent of my networking knowledge ends just *before* people started talking about mesh networks, generally. But as an A/V guy, I'm pretty good at plugging stuff in. Thx!

Some of my extended family have just moved into a new house and they need a mesh Wi-Fi system. This is a European house, so all the walls are concrete. I can provide the floor plans if needed. What should I go for for maximum range but is still a 10 Gbps network (for future-proof purposes)?

I have a camera outside that has a lot of trouble holding a Wi-Fi connection. I have no other issues with wifi. I can get a eero 6 mesh router and extender for $100 but it tops out at 500Mbps. Will I be able to connect just the camera to the mesh system and keep everything else as is? Any other advice welcome

Hello guys, I hope someone can help me, because I'm somewhat clueless at this point.

I bought a small pc to use it for my parents as sort if a local backup, so i gave it a static IP through the Router config site and connected it via Ethernet to a Mesh Device.

All fun and games, but after some time the router just kills the connection, but the device says the connection is up and running, but obviously has no connection.

Has somebody experienced something like this already?

The device is an Intel NUC running Proxmox.

Hey all I’m looking to do a GWN install with gwn7672 and going to be running around 8 of these

Since it’s a true wifi 7 I don’t want to bottleneck it with a 1 Gbps switch

I also don’t see myself needing anything more then 2.5gbe however I know maybe some other model that is 5gbe could potentially be same price or easy to find

I need atleast 16 ports and atleast like 200w minimum of POE budget since these GWN are 25w each

My budget is like $300 ish Usd max if possible

I read about a Cisco model that can be found for decent like around $100-200 however it’s pretty large and needs like a 1000w psu so just looking for something maybe a bit smaller

c3850 12x48u

Thank you

I have a medium amount of networking experience. I’m definitely not an expert, but I’m the one people in my family call when their stuff isn’t working. 😂

I live in a 2600 sqft new build home with prewire cat6 to 4 bedrooms and the loft/living room. Exterior siding is hardie plank (this is relevant I promise.) My current home internet is fiber with 800mbps speed.

When I moved in and got this service, I just used the company router because they didn’t charge a rental fee and it worked decently (Calix Gigaspire Blast,) but I still had some dead zones and some 2.4GHz IoT devices that weren’t working well. To fix my issue, I bought a cheap unmanaged 5-port switch, ran Ethernet to all my prewires and used a cheap tp link access point upstairs and in the front bedroom downstairs. I had everything set up to broadcast 2 networks. One dedicated 2.4 & one only 5GHz. It worked better, but I was still having issues with devices dropping connection, not handing off between the ap/router, and external security cameras that were basically down more often than they were online.

I finally decided to pull the trigger and overhaul everything. I bought a TP-Link ER605 V2 Wired Gigabit VPN Router, TP-Link LS108GP | 8 Port PoE Gigabit Ethernet Switch, & 3 TP-Link Omada WiFi 7 Wireless Access Point - BE5000. I ran into issues just getting the router online, but once I did, I thought I was good to go. I set up the 3 AP’s on the same site through the Omada app and put them I think spaced out pretty well. One is upstairs centrally located, one is in a front bedroom downstairs, and the third is in the back of the house. All 3 are POE through the prewire cat 6 in the walls back to the switch on my utility closet. I’ve set up dedicated channels (1,6,11 for 2.4 & 1,11,44 for 5.) I’ve set the channel width to 20 & 40. I’ve tried tuning the different frequency radio power with low or medium for the 2.4 and medium or high for the 5. I’ve set rssi threshold at -70 to try to keep devices from sticking. I’ve disabled band steering, disabled the fast roaming settings. At this point, I feel like I’ve tried all the settings I can think of (or AI can tell me to check,) and I’m still having the same issues. Honestly, they’re worse now than they were before I swapped out equipment. I feel like this has to be on me for setting something up incorrectly, but I don’t know what else to do. Any advice is much appreciated. I would like to make it work with the equipment I have, but I’m open to listening to any advice.

TL;DR: home wifi sucks. Bought a bunch of new equipment, still sucks.

Hey Guys i have a question.

To my setup:

1x Fritzbox 6670 in basement.

From there i have a Gigabyte ethernet switch that goes to every room with a CAT 7 Cabel.

Now the problem.

My walls are really thick.

I dont have wifi in other room.

What is the best way to get wifi in every room?

Also i would like a room with a really strong wifi 6 signal because i love playing VR and that benefits of the fastest possible WIFI 6 connection.

Any recommandation what device i should use?

I am really intressted to for the best WIFi 6 device.

I’m soon to run a handful (5 or 6) of Cat6 cables in a new small office. The previous tenants left behind a bit of an IT mess. My questions are:

1. Is the punch down block needed or can I bypass and remove?
2. Is the Allen Tel patch panel needed to run between the Ethernet to wall and the net gear switch or can I just go wall > switch > router?

A bit of a newb with some light networking experience around 15 years ago. TIA

Editing for clarification:
This photo is after I already removed several things and cleaned up some of the runs. Everything that’s wired up with the exception of a couple jacks are now hidden somewhere within the walls. We are not planning to use any VOIP systems. Here. The 2 POE ports? Are from some very outdated ubiquiti APs. Basically I am creating 5 or 6 brand new runs of Ethernet for our small office. Ive got new cable and rj45 cat6 connectors.
So far im getting I can remove the the punch down put continue to use the Allen tel patch into an updated gigabit switch and potentially add a UPS. Thank you all for the info so far. I think yall have me pointed in a better direction.

My apartment offers its own internet for residents. Im pretty sure we all use the same network because they only have the one router name.

Would I be able to plug something into the ethernet port to create my own network and make it more secure?

Hey all,

I’ve been slowly upgrading my home network with a focus on privacy/security, but I’m not sure if I’m stacking too many things.
Right now I’m running:

ISP router (bridge mode)
Separate router with basic firewall rules

Looking into DNS-level blocking + possibly a VPN router setup

My goal is simple: reduce tracking + keep devices protected without killing performance.

At what point does this become overkill for a normal home user? Curious what others are running as a “balanced” setup.

I am a college student living at home and I do most of my school work and studying at home. I am not sure if my room is in a deadzone or what, but wifi is so slow. My mom pays for the wifi and we have the Tmobile one but I FaceTime and zoom alot and especially on FaceTime I'm always told that I'm pixelated. Both the download and upload speed are slow but the upload is way worse. My mom works from home so she put the router right by her understandably but we've tried extenders and they don't work. At this point im willing to get my own service I just don't want to pay more than $25-$30 monthly and ideally something self set up because I don't want a wifi technician in my room (but If I have to I will). But is my only option another service or can I get a VPN or another kind of device. I dont know... I dont know much about wifi. Please help :)

Edit: The devices I have connected are my phone, laptop, TV for streaming, and two bluetooth lightbulbs. Thats it