They don't get it

When I was 15, my dad purchased me a plaster saw (still have it) and handed me his drill.

Then told me to make it look neat, but "don't fuck up because your mother will kill us both".

I ran about 4 network points through the house.

Nothing like fear to produce a 100% perfect finish 😉

Go ahead and pull em in the wall! Don't be scared. Worst case the world is ending anyways

For me it was like

A tale as old as time. Before Ethernet cables we were running phone extension cables through the house to connect up the modem to the only phone jack.

I had to buy carpets to hide the cable under them when running across the floor. Only exposed parts go through the doorways, and the wife complains about them. Well, I am not complaining about our craptastic wifi anymore.

I did this for every device in my house. used flat ethernet cable and just fished it under the carpets. Was significantly cheaper than trying to make wireless reach the other side of the house.

I was staying with some friends and we were all Computer users and gamers, Ethernet cables sprawled across the floor to every room in the place, and when we got tired of tripping over it, we duct taped them down to the floor where they stayed until we moved out.

I can either spend $20 on the cable or you can pay $2000 for a professional to buy it and stick it in the wall.

You could just use 2 Ethernet Over Power adaptors (not to be confused with power over ethernet).

After all, it's not as if the powerlines aren't already installed at home and connect all power plugs with all other power plugs.

This isn't even new: I've been using this solution for about a decade, back when it could do a mere 20Mb/s (which was still way faster than my Internet connection could handle back then ;))

Unless having a 500Mb/s limit on bandwith is somehow unacceptable when you could have Gigabit ethernet. Then again, why not fibre all the way ;)

Worth it every time.

Why not get a powerline adapter at that point?

Are you...are you in the walls?

I had to run a Ethernet cable from the cable modem in the master bedroom to the office security gate and switch, which then connect to all the servers, desktops, and wifi routers.

All thanks to shitty coax wiring in condos and Crapcast.

Easy I have either cable but no family, my PC is happy too :)

It's either deal with the distance with a wireless network (which can't even reach my current bedroom in my house) or deal with concrete walls that also cuts down the Wi-Fi signal in my new bedroom.

Then again, my home's network is due for an upgrade because it's 17 years old, so I just need to convince my family to upgrade to CAT6 cabling and a faster Wi-Fi router.

upgraded to a 3 node G mesh. it just works x10 years https://store.google.com/product/google_wifi_2nd_gen?hl=en-US

They let me go in the attic and run the internet line into my room (it was a 75ft cable). Now we use 5G, but are planning direct fiber once our city halves cost for service.

run the cable to a switch make it so 1/2 the house depends on it, after enough time youll justify doing it better

In college our apartment had one long hallway with all the rooms coming off of it. The connection for the router was on the opposite end from my room. So me and another guy had a horrible connection. We macgyvered a bunch of Ethernet cords using cheap couplers from Amazon and just laid them down in the hallway and into my room. We used an old router as an wireless access point. It may not have looked nice, but it worked!

Do people not know power line ethernet adapters are a thing? Look if up on Amazon, you just plug one into the wall by your router and one next to your PC. Clean and strong connections.

Ok serious question I just picked up this Ethernet splitter and I was hoping to split pre router in an effort to bypass the router and bump speeds slightly. Is that actually going to work or am I just dreaming?

Amazon link: https://a.co/d/21ev6zA

Mine runs from the top floor all the way into the basement!

I did the same. In fact, the PC I built doesn't even have wifi.

How many are 100ft?

This sas me back in the day lol so funny 🤣

Do y"all not use the magic adapters that you plug in by your router, then by your PC to make a lan cable out of the electric wiring? That improved my cable management so much

I still don't know whether that is a kangaroo or a rat.

Ended up using a powerline Ethernet adapter

My double-brick house really suffers with WiFi, and I work from home so I almost permanently have an Ethernet cable to my office. My fiance has gotten used to it at this point

I always wonder if I’m introducing bad latency by running a 100 ft ethernet cable.

Then I remind myself it’s the speed of light.

Literally me a couple weeks ago

Wifi is actually really good these days. I would be surprised if you could notice the difference given a wifi router in a decent spot.