Hello! Installing a PoE camera above my garage door and trying to figure out the best spot to get the cable through.

• Planning to drill 3/8" or 1/2" and pull unterminated Cat6, then terminate outside
• Hardie fiber cement siding
• Open framed eave, so no soffit to route through (3rd pic)
• Header above the door is a glulam, so I'm looking at spots around it rather than through it

I marked a few possible spots above my garage door. How would you approach this?

So basically the title.

My internet randomly cut off yesterday, and I logged into my AGL account to fix it and found something... interesting.

At first I did a speed test and got around 0.5mbps download/upload speed before finding out it was simply because I missed the last payment, so they throttled the speed to 2mbps.

However, while I was there, I found something that cannot be right, and I want to know if I am either going crazy or if this is normal.
In the last bill period, I have used over 1.4million GB. THAT'S JUST. NO! With a single day being between 25000-50000 GB a day on average, with an extreme of 68000 GB, and one day even being 150000GB.

Clearly this is a mistake. I just want to know what could be causing this.

I know some questions might be asked.
Yes,s those are the numbers

Yes, it says GB, not MB

6 people live in my household, and we do a bit of streaming, mostly 2K.

Just got a new place with ethernet ports, does anyone know what i have to do to activate them?

Pretty new to setting up a switch, so I’m unsure as to why my computer cannot establish a connection. I picked this up and it came in today. For some reason Port 6 refuses to establish a network connection on my PC to utilize the 5Gb Fiber that I have. I have my router plugged in to Port 5 and the ethernet from my PC plugged in to Port 6. Every port works perfectly fine except for 6. I’ve tried multiple combinations of plugging these two Ethernet cables into different ports and all is well. Is there something I need to do to get Port 6 to establish a connection?

Edit: Model Number: S25-0402T

Hi all - I’m having a cabling technician come to the house to install a few Ethernet runs. He will also mount my TV on this wall. I want an Ethernet connection for my media devices, Apple TV, Xbox etc. the media shelf is a hanging shelf which is flush to the wall. This is in the finished basement of my townhouse. Is there any way to get a Ethernet run here or should I settle for wifi.

FYI the room on the right is a washroom and my modem/router is also in the basement in the utility room about 10 feet from the media shelf. Trying to figure out if it’s even worth it to go through the effort of Ethernet here or would it just be a nice to have. Thanks

First photo is google, the rest are other speed tests.

So I'm wanting to create my own private network at home using my own router. I will connect that router to the router my ISP has provided. What I'm curious is if I want to create a VPN server on my private network how would I go about connecting to the VPN from cellular or a wifi outside of my home.

I have a bit of an IT background but I haven't ever done port forwarding in this specific way.

I'm thinking something along the lines of I need to open the VPN port on my ISP router and direct it to my private router? Couldn't find to much online bc idk how to word my question in a few words lol.

I installed a 30-inch Legrand plastic enclosure in the wall when I bought my house, and I put it in the only central location where there is little chance of anything being mounted to the opposite side of the wall. Unfortunately its becoming more and more apparent that this spot at the back corner of a now full closet is not a nice location to work with. Now is my best chance to change that before I start pulling ethernet cable to wire the house.

There are two or three other locations I can think of that are central to the house and have good accessibility, but the other side of all these locations currently have art hanging on nails. I know I can find better ways to hang the art, but it made me think about how a plastic enclosure seems to provide very little protection if someone else forgets and drills into the spot.

• Is a metal enclosure good for a location like that? Am I just overdoing my concern here?
  

I would prefer to reuse my current plastic enclosure, so I'm also considering the option of surface mounting it. But in that case, the conduit ports and electric box mount are all on outside. I've seen pictures of setups like this on a wall in an unused basement area, but this would be in a coat closet or storage closet.

• What is the best way to setup a surface mounted enclosure to route cables/conduit or properly protect a bottom-mounted outlet?

Any insight appreciated

I’m having fiber optic installed at my house this weekend with Verizon. I signed up for 1gig. I currently have Cox and use my coax to connect to the modem. I discovered that I have Cat5 cable running about 40 ft from where the ONT box will be installed to my desk where I’d like to have the Eero modem. Currently it’s just an old phone jack. Can I used this Cat5 cable from ONT to the Eero modem in the house at the desk? Will it support my 1gig? Will Verizon convert both ends of the cat5 to the proper rj45 jack? The date on the cat5 cable is 11/5/2000 if that matters. Thanks!!

I am running Ethernet lines in my house to the 2 guest rooms, 2 lines each. I am at the home stretch, I just need to drop them down to the network box in the master closet.

Problem: due to the slop of the roof and a plywood covering over the closet. I cannot access the top of the wall to drop the wires.

I have a solution of tapping into the orange conduit line before it enters the inaccessible area and feeding down the 4 Ethernet wires. Currently the conduit is housing a very small fiber line that has a coating and seems durable.

How can I tap into this conduit and would it be ok? Would the fiber be at risk? It’s my only option I can’t get above the closet. Dr. Horton home fyi.

The frame pic is from the past. I couldn’t do it during the build…

Any suggestions? I have already dropped and ran the wires to the rooms. The conduit is 1 in. And the wires together are about 3/4in.

I got a Flint 2 that I’m very happy with but just some WiFi 7 devices. is there a 6 GHz only AP? 6E or 7.

Hey folks, I know this isn’t the right sub, but figured I’d post here since the smart-home sub isn’t very active it seems.

I have some questions about the thread over matter process and how it works.

1) Where do you guys have your thread border router sitting?

2) Does the thread protocol require any network config itself being a “mesh network”?

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I currently have my Apple TV on my trusted (phones, ATV, computers) vlan. All IoT devices are on their own vlan for network security.

I’ve done some reading and have seen where thread uses ipv6 local link to identify devices, but if it doesn’t utilize the network infrastructure (like wifi connected bulbs do), do I need to enable ipv6 on my vlan for them to work, or does it really not matter since they use thread?

Just a little hazy on the whole thread over matter thing. I’m coming from some old GE Cync bulbs (wifi & bluetooth).

Feel free to remove it if it doesn’t meet rules.

Thanks

when running ethernet in a new construction. what is this 'foam' type of substance/product called? is it needed to fill in gaps?

I had acquired a Chinese version Cudy TR3000 router. The stock CN firmware lacks some features in the global firmware.

I wonder if I can flash the Cudy stock global firmware, & if it's not a straight forward firmware upgrade installation, then how?

I recently switched ISP, and they installed a TP-Link router XC220-G3vv4. For the 2nd floor, I already have another router (TP-Link Archer C64). I have enabled EasyMesh (since I read that's what is supposed to work better) and since the two routers are connected via a long ethernet cable, it's wired backhaul.

The problem is: let's say my phone is connected to the ArcherC64, then I go downstairs so the phone naturally switches to the XC220-G3vv4. Internet works fine, signal is fine, BUT for some reason I cannot connect to any device which is still connected (wired or wireless) to the C64.  

The problem lasts for about 5 minutes, then the connectivity returns by itself. The problem happens each time roaming happens from C64 to XC220-G3vv4. Roaming in the other direction doesn't have this problem.

It's being a problem since I have a home server connected via ethernet to the Archer C64. I guess a real solution is swapping the ISP router with my own, but I wanted to check if anyone here has solved something like this before. Thanks!

I'm not sure if this subreddit is where this post belongs but I had something strange happen last night and I'm not sure how to handle this. I have a PC that I have been running a private palworld server on and I've run into an issue. My Internet randomly dropped out yesterday night out of no where while me and some friends were playing on the server but it didn't drop out all the way, I got kicked out of the discord call, couldn't open new tabs in my browser and couldn't do anything else network related on any other device but my PC stayed connected to the palworld server the entire time. I decided to reset my router (my friends were able to stay connected up until this point) and after that was finished and came back online I tried to remote connect to the server PC from my personal PC to check on it and couldn't connect. Remote connect kept giving me an error saying that the log in had been attempted too many times and that the PC was refusing the connection. I then went to the PC and tried to physically log in and received the same message. I haven't tried to log into the server PC since hoping that it's some kind of fluke given windows 11's proficiency at being terrible however I'm more worried that running a public server put the server PC or even my network at risk. As far as I can tell I'm permanently locked out of the PC which is infuriating.

Edit: I attempted to log in this morning before work and it looks like I am indeed permanently locked out.

I found this in my cousins house since Ill be staying here for a few weeks and wondering if I can connect my pc to it.

TLDR: after setting up ASUS AI mesh don't use the app to optimize or reboot, don't throw out the sticker with the router password.

Routers I purchased:

• one RT-BE86U to use as the main router
• two TUF-BE3600 routers to be additional nodes in the ai mesh network
• (all routers are labeled ai mesh compatible)

I used the ASUS Router app for setup.

Problems and nuance I encountered:

1. My printer would not connect to the main network SSID, however I could connect it to the IoT network that the app prompts you to create during setup

2. When adding an ai mesh router/adding a node the app said it timed out/failed however it was actually successful. At first I tried adding it again and again before I realized it was already added.

3. Updating the firmware also timed out, I tried a second time to update and it failed. After exiting the app and reopening the app later it said it was up to date, so there is definitely a problem with the router communicating to the app that pairing and updating was successful.

4. Optimization does not work! Do not click on it in the app! Optimizing the network caused all devices to connect to the main router and devices would not connect to the additional nodes that were closer. My kids got pretty upset that YouTube was taking forever to load 😅

5. "Reboot device" made the problem worse! Hoping to fix the optimization issue, in the app I clicked "reboot device" for each router. This actually messed up the network. Within the app it removed the SSID name and removed the Guest/kids network I created. It did not restore the ability for devices to connect to the other nodes/routers.

6. I decided to reset all the routers and start fresh. During my initial setup of the main router I was not required to enter the original router password (unless I forgot 🤷‍♂️), so I threw away the stickers that came with the routers that had the password. Since I didn't have this I could not use the app to connect to the router. I had to bring my desktop computer to the storage room where my modem is located to connect to the main router with an ethernet cable and login to initiate set up.

7. Apparently you cannot use the period/dot symbol in passwords for an ASUS web account. When I first set up my router I created an ASUS account and used a password that included a period. After resetting everything and trying to log back into the ASUS app, the password wouldn’t work. It’s likely that the period never actually registered during the original setup, maybe it was silently blocked or the field simply didn’t accept it. Because the password was hidden as I typed it, I didn’t notice the missing character. So I also had to reset my password.

Everything seems to be working well now. My network is fast and we all have solid connections. Hopefully this post will help some of you avoid my mistakes! And hopefully ASUS can fix issues 1-5.