Soldato
I get the point that WiFi won't technically be as good as wired ethernet. But the key question is surely, is it good enough for your use cases? I fear I've come to the wrong forum to argue this point!
Soldato
Yeah i do agree actually, it depends on what you're doing i guess. Wifi is generally 'good enough' for most stuff nowadays especially if you put in a mesh network.
If i'd moved into this house without any ethernet already installed i'd have done that as it'd have been such a pain to try and retro fit it into a modern house without a loft.
But if you do have the chance to install hard wired then it's a no brainer.
Soldato
why without a loft, cant cables run under floorboards and switches be put under stairs or in cupboards???
Soldato
Are you intentionally ignoring that lifting floorboards is not a five minute job in an established house with carpet, LVT, whatever?
Which comes back to my point - if 3/4 wireless signal strength and 70Mb/s is good enough for my use cases, then I'm not going to spend hours of effort lifting carpet and floorboards to get some extra Mb/s that I won't notice or need!
Define and validate the problem before jumping to solutioneering!
Soldato
funny as i didnt think this was your thread and i didnt say that lifting floorboards was a five minute job. i just stated you dont need a loft to do these sorts of thing. People on here are renovating thier properties, fitting carpets floors etc etc so they already have access...... it just doesnt always need a loft.
Also cables can run in trunking along skirting boards and run into existing trunking if surface mounted. im currently using ethernet through power adaptors in sockets, some say their useless, i have never had a problem with them, its horses for courses......
Soldato
I cabled my house mainly because it was going to be easy, I had a hole above my router that Virgin used to run coax through that I could reuse to get cables upstairs, little trunking in a corner and its out of sight. This then went up into a cupboard and I have external pipes boxed in around the upstairs rooms, so I ran cables through them to get to the other rooms and then ran a couple upstairs into the loft for my media server. All in it cost me about a tenner as I had left over cable from work and just needed to get a few face plates and sockets to terminate onto that I couldn't pickup from work. Only one room I couldn't cable without drilling, so I left that room without sockets as its just the spare room and gets used a couple times a year and the TV can cope on the Wifi.
Edit - Main reason I did it is I work in telecoms and wanted to have a decent connection for POE for phones.
Edit - Main reason I did it is I work in telecoms and wanted to have a decent connection for POE for phones.
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the hypocrisy here is too strong. Not a lot of effort yet you've done a landlord special along skirting board and ethernet power adaptors?
Soldato
what you mean a landlord special...i didnt say have a cables a long skirting boards ( i know you struggle with comprehension) i said " you can do"......
Ethernet power adaptors are there to be used and i use them succesfully....others dont, but they suite my needs. As for you..crack on with dodgy refurb and giving us a good laugh with all your pictures.
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