How does residential internet wiring work?

[Tergo247]

A couple things I haven't seen mentioned: category cable has a distance limit of 330'. This isn't a problem for most homes but maybe don't put your network router/switch on one side of the house. The other thing is to clear up the 100mb/1g thing, as this bit me when I did my deployment of ubiquity things. It is a fact that a 100mb CLIENT will not slow down an entire network. However, all infrastructure of a line has to be compatible or it will. I had a Poe injector to power an access point that brought that access point down to 100mb. Everything from the switch port to the cat6 to the access point itself was 1g compliant. The Poe injector became the bottleneck.

Good luck with your project, hit me up if you need advice.

 

[75gmck25]

I had similar problems several years back with my modem intermittently dropping signal and then returning to normal. I had a fairly short run from the demarc point on the outside of the house to my modem in the family room, so interior wiring was not causing a problem.

After 3 different cable guys tried to fix it, the final guy actually used a meter on the cable line to the house, and it dropped out when the meter was connected. That meant it was definitely their problem, since the signal dropped out before it ever reached my house. The fix was a new circuit card (or some other component) in the cable company's box that fed signal to multiple houses. The box transmitter worked sometimes, but intermittently failed to provide an adequate signal on the line that ran to my house.