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We have Centurylink internet service in our house and we use their provided router for everything. I believe the internet package is rated up to 10 MBPS, but it typically can only pull 8.5 to low 9 MBPS due to the infrastructure in our city. The last time we had a Centurylink tech out to our house, we started talking and he said our neighborhood will never be able to pull much more than 10 MBPS until they improve the infrastructure
Anyways, we have the following internet devices in our home: Smart TV, PS4, XBOX 1, XBOX 360, Wireless printer, & various tablets/cell phones.
The worst conditions are when someone is playing an online game in one room, someone else is streaming TV in the other room, and then there may be 1 or 2 cell phones or tablets browsing the internet. It gets very laggy and everything is running through WiFi.
I am going to run ethernet lines throughout the house to get everything but the wireless printer and cell phones/tablet off the WiFi. How much will that help our issues? I am not 100% sure if it is a WiFi capacity issue, modem/router issue, or just plain slow internet speed.
I have a few questions though.
Are Cat6 cables worth the extra money based on our "10" MBPS service?
Our TV console has 3 devices that need an ethernet line. Do I have to run 3 individual lines or can I run 1 line and then use a tri-split wall plug?
I was going to upgrade the modem/router after I see what kind of improvement we could make from the ethernet lines. What would be a good upgrade for around the $100 price range?
Any other suggestions?
Anyways, we have the following internet devices in our home: Smart TV, PS4, XBOX 1, XBOX 360, Wireless printer, & various tablets/cell phones.
The worst conditions are when someone is playing an online game in one room, someone else is streaming TV in the other room, and then there may be 1 or 2 cell phones or tablets browsing the internet. It gets very laggy and everything is running through WiFi.
I am going to run ethernet lines throughout the house to get everything but the wireless printer and cell phones/tablet off the WiFi. How much will that help our issues? I am not 100% sure if it is a WiFi capacity issue, modem/router issue, or just plain slow internet speed.
I have a few questions though.
Are Cat6 cables worth the extra money based on our "10" MBPS service?
Our TV console has 3 devices that need an ethernet line. Do I have to run 3 individual lines or can I run 1 line and then use a tri-split wall plug?
I was going to upgrade the modem/router after I see what kind of improvement we could make from the ethernet lines. What would be a good upgrade for around the $100 price range?
Any other suggestions?
On your tv console you can run 1 cat6 line to a router and then plug in each device to the router. The router should be a 1000mbps (1gbps) router. These are pretty cheap.
You also need to think about your home network, not just your internet.
From your console back to router, back to modem, can run much higher then 10Mbps. Likely it can run as high as 1000mbps, commonly just called a 100meg network (100Mbps)
So your internal home network will be much faster then what your Internet speeds can provide.
Is that going to solve your streaming problem? No. Because the fastest your internet can be is no more then 10. Even though your internal network can run at 100.
But you will see some slight improvements running everything through Ethernet cables then through wifi,
But you will still be limited on what you can collectively stream at the same time because collectively you are trying to consume more them 10 but your internet cannot provide more. So you will be constrained in that way.
But your home network will operate at 100 so you will see some improvements in different areas depending on what you do internally.
The Shop
We pay about $60/month for the internet service and then another $20 or so in junk fees.
Single story house on a slab foundation so all of the wiring will be done up above in the truss space with loose-fill insulation. That alone makes me not want to have to ever do it over again if I can do 6 right now and be good for many years to come.
Looks good. Organized cabling is more art then science.
What are all the white cables for? Blue looks like Ethernet obviously. White I can't really tell and seems like you have about 10x more of those then anything else.
I've built-out/rebuilt many data-centers of various sizes for our company so I have seen good and bad cable jobs. Your is very nicely done.
I use a company here is Dallas that handles all of our cabling jobs around the country and it's pretty amazing to see them work. Folks might think oh yeah just tie up some cables and make it look nice. Not so easy when you have hundreds and thousands of cables coming down into cable racks with switches connected by fiber and all that going to server racks.
It costs a lot of money to have it done right. But it's worth it because you can see where shit goes and it's professionally done and not a big piece of shit spaghetti mess.
When we moved corporate offices a year and a half ago I had to convert a "nursing room" into a small data center. Just the cabling and cable rack work was just shy of 100k. And it's all 10gig (Cat6A) cables which are pretty thick and a bitch to work with. I make them label everything at the patch panel too.
The router tracks back to another router. That router is a 24 port gig router that connects up all my rooms.
That router connects to my cable modem.
A cable modem will not make a difference if your internet service can only max out at 10Mbps.
Yes I know DSL different then a cable modem.
//edit
I realize what you mean now and I edited my post. I interchange router and switch constantly even though they are two totally different devices.
When you say hub you mean a switch. And so I agree with you.
Pit Row
Running the speed test over laptop, Xbox 1 streaming Hulu, and daughter watching a video on a Kindle. All running from wifi.
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