Why? I mean my Oppo 103 and one pc are on a switch but 2 pc's and the TV are directly on the LAN ports on the router.
I've always connected my AV gear and computers to switches. I guess it goes back to the days when all had were basic single port modems not these swanky multi-port routers!
They probably figure you're a useful test for early adoption. Most of their customers likely don't even know what 2.5G LAN ports are, and probably don't have PC's with any fitted either.
Well in my case under the house. I have CAT8 everywhere as of a few weeks ago, I've had CAT 8 in the Audio/PC room for a while now.
I have 150Mbps and I'm an 'IT Guy'. I have not had a time in many years where I thought I needed faster internet. Maybe a home with 6 kids all streaming different things on their phones? Even then, mathematically 500Mbps would suffice. Having a decent modem is more important than speed, having multiple channels so queueing is kept to a minimum. This is especially important for gaming, where that queueing can result in lag/high ping times. I'm actually not sure how much of an issue that is with fiber, I believe the translation is so immediately they don't function (or need to function) the same way as cable modems. That's out of my expertise as I deal with everything before/after the internet connection. In theory I bet a 200Mbps fiber connection would feel silky smooth and the only time one would notice any advantage is in how long it took a large file to download.
Yes. I think I'll go ahead with the new router, if for no other reason than it's a newer model.
Yeah when I first made my cable runs, I went to a local guy works out of his garage. He made me up several CAT 5e cables but they are long gone now and replaced with the CAT8. Actually 1 of the CAT5e cables only lasted about 2 years under the house. This time I bought outdoor heavy cables.
Did you get the outdoor cables which are gel filled? I used some of that once and it is disgusting stuff to terminate, the gel is sticky and gets all over everything if you're not extremely careful.
I don't have any way to terminate cables anymore, no crimper for the connectors (I have several good crimpers and a crappy one but they are for molex terminals, pc wiring). I just buy the closest length that works. Under the house I have 2x50 ft cables, a spare in a drawer.
Are the ones under the house just terminated with a male RJ45 that plugs into a router or PC? I'm talking about CAT 6 cables that terminate in sockets in the wall, and then you run a short drop lead from there to your PC or router or whatever. You don't need crimp tools for sockets in the walls, you use an IDC tonk tool eg https://www.amazon.co.uk/NEWlink-Network-Terminal-Insertion-UKNLCN316-Black/dp/B09CNYVG7N/
No I don't do any of that. Cable from router/switch to device. Pre terminated. No wall sockets. Buy the cable, run it, plug it in and go. Only thing in my walls are electrical wiring, wood, and insulation. I drilled a few holes in the convenient places years ago to run the CAT cable up from underneath as I did not want to be fooling with sheetrock damage.
As with much of our hobby, overkill isn’t something we shy away from. Nothing wrong with bandwidth, of course, but if it’s costing you money you could be spending on media, well that’s another issue.
It’s an ongoing project of mine to run CAT 6 & RG 6 to every room that might use it, so every bedroom and everywhere one might put a TV (we have a living room and a family room, go figure). I’m not crawling around in the crawl spaces until the weather cools down, though. I still have three rooms to go.
The difference between 2gig and 1gig per month is $20. The 2gig plan is $105/month, with 5$ knocked off for automatic billing.
Yes, it seems like file transfers to/from my NAS (a drobo 5N) can take a while. My PCs just use whatever was on the motherboard, so I’m not sure if that’s a limitation or something else in the signal path, although I believe all my switches are 1Gig.
I hear you.... Because my previous Dell laptop only offered a 100 Mbps network port and was painfully slow at transferring large media files to my Synology NAS I began storing all my media files on external (NTFS formatted) USB HDD's connected to my NAS instead.
