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Hircus
2020 Sep 28, 3:21pm
Hircus
2020 Sep 28, 3:21pm
I always try to use Ethernet cable. Better speeds, rock solid reliable, secure, trustworthy.
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SunnyvaleCA
2020 Sep 28, 4:33pm
You use the Comcast WiFi hardware? Ugh. Are you paying a $5/month rental fee for it when a basic router that you own and control fully is $60 and will last for 10 years?
Mine is already 10+ years old. It's "only" N speed — i.e.: 20x faster than the modem connection to Comcast. It also has 4 ethernet ports for all the devices that are close.
There's little point in having the latest and greatest wifi speed if you're not doing file transfers between two computers on that same wifi network.
Mine is already 10+ years old. It's "only" N speed — i.e.: 20x faster than the modem connection to Comcast. It also has 4 ethernet ports for all the devices that are close.
There's little point in having the latest and greatest wifi speed if you're not doing file transfers between two computers on that same wifi network.
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Tenpoundbass
2020 Sep 28, 4:37pm
Tenpoundbass
2020 Sep 28, 4:37pm
No I bought my own wifi cable router. The monthly charge is going up. Comcast used to treat their internet business as incidental. The bulk of their business was cable subscriptions. So many people cutting the cord now, Comcast is going to start being pesky bill whore like AT&T has become, after everyone dropped home phone service, then they started squeezing and shaking down their customers.
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EBGuy
2020 Sep 28, 4:44pm
My kid's Zoom (school and gaming) room recently moved away from where the router is located. Replaced his his direct gigabit ethernet connection with some "vintage" 100Mbit Netgear Powerline ethernet boxes. Latency is not bad (picked up a couple of msec per speedtest ping) and he hasn't complained yet. Plug and play.
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Shaman
2020 Sep 28, 5:01pm
Shaman
2020 Sep 28, 5:01pm
Just remember:
Orange, Orange-White, green-white, blue, blue-white, green, brown-white, brown!
Titty down.
Orange, Orange-White, green-white, blue, blue-white, green, brown-white, brown!
Titty down.
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SunnyvaleCA
2020 Sep 28, 5:08pm
In my part of Sunnyvale, it's Comcast or nothing. No DSL or no fiber/FIOS. It really hurts those kind of price negotiations. Fortunately I get a flat-rate internet-only deal through work.
A decade ago before I switched to that the poor guy on the other end of the sales office was having the hardest time trying to throw in other "stuff" for the $89/month connection instead of just giving me a lower price. You get faster internet speeds ... nope, 25 mb/s is plenty. You get 10 free email address ... nope, I already have 2 through other sources. Online storage ... nope, I have my own backup solutions. Free land line ... I don't even have a land-line phone. Oh well.
I guess the next thing people start cutting is "phone" service. Skype, Zoom, instant messaging, and email are good enough for me. I'm already sending all calls of people who aren't in my address book directly to voice mail.
A decade ago before I switched to that the poor guy on the other end of the sales office was having the hardest time trying to throw in other "stuff" for the $89/month connection instead of just giving me a lower price. You get faster internet speeds ... nope, 25 mb/s is plenty. You get 10 free email address ... nope, I already have 2 through other sources. Online storage ... nope, I have my own backup solutions. Free land line ... I don't even have a land-line phone. Oh well.
I guess the next thing people start cutting is "phone" service. Skype, Zoom, instant messaging, and email are good enough for me. I'm already sending all calls of people who aren't in my address book directly to voice mail.
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Ceffer
2020 Sep 28, 6:16pm
Ceffer
2020 Sep 28, 6:16pm
Maybe I should run a mile long ethernet cable from my home to a local McDonald's with a repeater. Save some smackeroonies.
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Tenpoundbass
2020 Sep 28, 6:18pm
Tenpoundbass
2020 Sep 28, 6:18pm
Ceffer says
Perhaps you should. It was only 10 cents a foot.
Maybe I should run a mile long ethernet cable from my home to a local McDonald's with a repeater. Save some smackeroonies.
Perhaps you should. It was only 10 cents a foot.
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Automan Empire
2020 Sep 28, 7:21pm
Automan Empire
2020 Sep 28, 7:21pm
That's awesome. I put conduits and irrigation pipes all over the back yard, really deep, all at one time early in my landscaping project. Haven't FILLED many of them, but I won't have to trench through my mature specimens either. This laborer I hired, at one point stopped and wiped his brow, then gestured at the trenches and said, "Too deep, is." It all makes sense with parts of the final grade below ground level.
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Hircus
2020 Sep 28, 7:55pm
Hircus
2020 Sep 28, 7:55pm
Tenpoundbass says
Or use directional wifi antenna + basestations in repeater mode. You can beam a good signal for 20+ miles using some of the stuff ubiquity wireless and other companies sell. No joke, although you need to bring some extra $. Not too much though.
You can go shorter distances like 1-2 miles easy for maybe 1-3 hundred bucks, but LOS is needed.
It seems this is what they do in rural areas. Sometimes when driving through small towns I can see everyone has a dish or panel wifi antenna aimed at the same spot in town. Some local ISP is just beaming wifi to everyone, likely making a killing. And they backhaul it to another nearby larger town by putting a focused directional antenna on top of a nearby hill.
Ceffer saysMaybe I should run a mile long ethernet cable from my home to a local McDonald's with a repeater. Save some smackeroonies.
Perhaps you should. It was only 10 cents a foot.
Or use directional wifi antenna + basestations in repeater mode. You can beam a good signal for 20+ miles using some of the stuff ubiquity wireless and other companies sell. No joke, although you need to bring some extra $. Not too much though.
You can go shorter distances like 1-2 miles easy for maybe 1-3 hundred bucks, but LOS is needed.
It seems this is what they do in rural areas. Sometimes when driving through small towns I can see everyone has a dish or panel wifi antenna aimed at the same spot in town. Some local ISP is just beaming wifi to everyone, likely making a killing. And they backhaul it to another nearby larger town by putting a focused directional antenna on top of a nearby hill.
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Tenpoundbass
2020 Sep 28, 8:03pm
Tenpoundbass
2020 Sep 28, 8:03pm
Automan Empire says
I use a wet vac and tie a small piece of a plastic bag on a Polypropylene twine, then stuffed in the hole and suck it on through the other end with the wet vac.
That's awesome. I put conduits and irrigation pipes all over the back yard,
I use a wet vac and tie a small piece of a plastic bag on a Polypropylene twine, then stuffed in the hole and suck it on through the other end with the wet vac.
I expected terrible WiFi more than 50 feet from the back of the house and about 90 feet from the actual router. But the wifi connection has been fine. Until last week when Comcast called my wife, and said the deal we negotiated 2 years was expired and they were going to double the price for internet. I told them to go get bent, I don't play that game, I'll find another provider then hung up. The lady called my wife back and they negotiated the original price. But since then my wifi out back has been spotty and all videos stagger and remote work and zoom meetings have been dismal.
So today, I finally broke down and tried to pull the 100ft premade cat5 network cable, but it came up short, I needed about 110' not 100'. So I pulled it back out and went to Home Depot, and bought 150' of cable, a pair of crimpers, and some RJ45 connectors. Then still ended up having to go back to buy a concrete drill bit so I could run it through to the house where the router is.
I really should have done this last year, this is much better than even my best connection with the WiFi.
On a side note, I didn't get a damn thing from our morning meeting accomplished.