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.

Nightfox

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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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