Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Monday, April 8, 2024. What happened to sunnyboys?
Baku@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Looks like I will get even more opportunity to play Jr Network engineer next month. I’m going to run ethernet into my rooms. I’m not at all a professional and don’t want to deal with cable terminating or actually wiring things, so the current plan is to take a cable out the back of the router in the lounge room and feed it through a passthrough style wall plate, take it into an AP in room 2, then feed into a switch, then finally take another cable out of that through another passthrough wall plate and into a final wall plate in room 1. Not ideal, and I’m a bit worried about introducing latency, but I’m pretty sure that’s the best option I’ve got for my skill level and what I’m allowed to do to the house. I sprung for gigabit cabling and equipment though, even though it’s overkill. Partly in the hopes that it might alleviate some of the latency, but also partly because everything’s going to stay here after I move, and it’ll probably be a whole century before anybody touches the cabling again lmao
CameronDev@programming.dev 2 months ago
Latency wont be noticable. I havent checked recently, but running ethernet cables behind walls requires an electrician. Thats obviously stupid though, so go for it. Just run the ethernet as far away from electric cables as possible.
Terminating cables isnt that hard, and the end result will be a bit nicer to look at.
When you say passthrough wall plate, are you talking about: …com.au/…/cat6-rj45-keystone-coupler-female-to-fe… If you dont want to terminate, but still want a nice look those are very easy to use.
Baku@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Oh that’s a relief. Yeah, it is still illegal to run any sort of wiring yourself, but it seems to be pretty unknown. We’re actually going for an even easier option than running it through walls, and running it under the house instead.
Yeah that’s pretty much exactly what I’m talking about. They seem like the easiest and neatest option
CameronDev@programming.dev 2 months ago
I ran my first run that way as well, under the house. Still illegal, but you can just claim an electrician did it and you dont know their name. The downside of those wall sockets is you have to drill a fairly large hole to get the RJ45 through, and in my case, it was a fairly long hole as well. Good luck!