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New home need direction (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/networking

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I will be moving into a new house in a few weeks. It's an older house (built in the 60s) and hasn't had much updates in terms of wiring. I want to be able to run a hardwire cable to each bedroom to maximize my Internet performance. My wife works from home and I'm hybrid, so I want to ensure we're not just flying on WiFi.

Are there any resources or how tos that can give me some information on where to start? What to look for? What to do first?

I'm struggling with figuring out what I should try to tackle. Should I just run an Ethernet line to the room that's an office and start there? Or is there some well thought out approach I can make?

I know this is probably vague, but any assistance would be appreciated.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

if there is any coax already ran, MOCA is pretty reliable and robust

[–] youreinthedrizzle 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Concur with this. Just did this to my parents house and set up MoCA so each room has an ethernet switch and an Eero access point hardwired (provided by the ISP - they work fine and I would rather use the ISP equipment when I can so they can get support when I'm not around). Works great and gets full gigabit speeds in each room over ethernet.

MoCA is really cool from a practical perspective. Just being able to use the wiring that already exists in most homes to get gigabit ethernet throughout the house is awesome.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

This is great. Will investigate.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

This is super cool. I've never heard of this until now. I'm 99% sure there are coax run through at least most of the rooms.