Recent content by gregnash

Yeah the "LAN Test Kit" I purchased from Monoprice has a cheap little tester. I had been testing all the patch cables I was creating but wasn't really paying attention when I made this one apparently. When I tested again there were two lines that we not light up, thus the connection issue. When...

Well a few days after getting everything finished and a few glitches worked out with some bad crimps on cable work everything is working flawlessly. Decided to turn the Xbox on for a bit today and download some of the updates that have been waiting. Like I said before, more updates over wireless...

Oh the other awesome thing that I forgot to mention was that last night after I got the living room finished and plugged the Xbox One into its dedicated line I am now getting ~40mbps vs. the inconsistent ~25-30mbps (this was noted while updating Elder Scrolls Online in the update)... So that is...

As promised here are some pics... drilling the exterior walls was more of a bitch than I anticipated... Patch panel in office ended up being three different holes, one ended up going through subflooring, between siding and outside the foundation, another went into foundation and stopped, finally...

Oh yeah... I am taking my time doing this stuff... good thing is that the office and livingroom lines will go on an exterior wall. When I was under the house this weekend there were no lines or other items to necessarily worry about and since they are near power outlets (mounting on the opposite...

Ok cool I was hoping that I wouldn't really need to run a dedicated switch for everything seeing as the Archer C7 has gigabit ports but should I need more down the line I will. Went and got a good 9/16" installers flex bit this evening after work to deal with drilling through the floor. Started...

Bandalo Thanks, Ok so next question is that preferable over just using the ports included in the router as the switch or would a dedicated switch be more preferable?

Ok so here is a new question.... currently have the wireless router planned to act as the "switch" in the office. This leaves me with three runs available after having the iMac hardwired into the available four. Would having the following configuration be a better setup; modem>5/8port...

Yeah completely understand what you mean.. Only seems that recently as we have added more devices and the devices have become more bandwidth hungry, have I seen issues. Also probably doesn't help that I spent 2 1/2 months on the couch due to injury. Normally the xbox doesn't even get turned on...

Bandalo thanks... not really worried about the footprint of either unit or their wall plug as I have plenty of spots open on the surge protectors. For the few extra bucks though I may go with the TP-Link that you added as I currently have the V2 Archer C7. They just recently released a new...

Ok so here is the next question..... I will be having two lines run to the front room, one will be dedicated to the XBOX One and the other to all the other devices there (AppleTv, Tivo, maybe a third line to Blu-Ray player to update the firmware but its older so no streaming or anything). I will...

Well got an email today from Monoprice that they were having a one-day promo, FALL20 takes $20 off of qualifying $100+ orders... Threw all the stuff I needed in the basket and did the promo and brought everything to $115 with next business day shipping. So all the stuff should be on it's way by...

And here I thought I was crazy for keeping my old ones around. In the last 10yrs I have had 1 modem fail and have had one router fail in 15yrs. These were the same ones that I had been using forever just because I was too lazy to upgrade. The router I just decided to upgrade as we were getting...

No it would not automatically switch as it would see two different devices broadcasting the same network SSID and have problems. Best bet is to just manually go through and switch, is it really THAT time consuming to do that vs. all the time and effort you are putting into NOT trying to do that?

Zarathustra[H] You have a good point there... Most of the stuff in our house is mobile, wife's macbook, ipads, iphones... But we do have those stationary things like my iMac, Xbox 1, Tivos, AppleTVs, etc. That is the plan that with the hardwire to get things that SHOULD be wired, to be wired...