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![]() We have ATT Uverse. I want to have them install Ethernet access in the walls. They said iit would be a 99 dollar technician charge and the $45 per wall Jack. I'm sure there would be an extra charge to have the two lines run upstairs but the Indian man on the phone was unable to tell me what it was. Anybody have any experience with that? I don't want to pay the 99 for the guy to come out and have him tell me an extra $200 or something
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if you insist on going wired, is the home wired for phone? if so is there a phone jack in the locations you want ethernet availible? if so how old is the home and do you know how it was wired for communications?
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![]() Buy a $50 Wifi router and call it done.
Or if you insist on hard wired - get a couple of ethernet-powerline adaptors. They turn your existing power wiring in your home into network wiring.
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![]() Hard wired cat5/6e is WAY better than wireless for something like Uverse. The prices that you have been quoted actually very good for a run like that. Did they quote you to do wall drops that they have to fish through the wall or are they going to do baseboard through the floor? Either way you could not find a company to pull that small amount of cable for that price. It just wouldn't be worth it to them.
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I agree with you on the pricing btw...only thing I would have issue with is the "truck roll" charge if you are having 4 wires pulled...even including that tho, its not a bad price
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![]() florence...question about the install for the friend...he still had to have the Uverse device at every tv correct? just used twisted pair to deliver the bandwidth to that box? he wasnt able to directly connect the tv to the ethernet jack and watch tv that way was he?
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![]() So op...whats the intended use of the ethernet jacks???
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![]() Hot setup, if a two story house, or house with basement, is to have 1 hard wire in each floor. Use the wireless router at one level and a wireless access point at the other level. You'll just about never have any wireless throughput issues this way.
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![]() shouldnt even need the wire on each floor...most decent ap/repeaters can handle multiple hops, if you are using decent equipment, using the standard (residential) ISP provided wireless solution as a starting point may leave a lot to be desired tho
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![]() Also spreads the bandwith usage over multiple wireless points. Add up the number of wireless devices you'll be using against the bandwith of any/all routers. Remember also, that wireless steps its speed up/down based on signal strength. Can't miss these steps if you want premium performance. All routers, switches, etc. really have 2 specs, the radio specs and the backbone specs as well.
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Yeah unless you got some thick ass walls or traveling a long distance you shouldn't need an additional WAP.
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Valid point. I guess it depends on how many devices he really plans on using at the same time.
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![]() Ok background on why I want this. The wireless access/modem is downstairs. I was going to just move it to my room upstairs but it has like 3 different connections into the wall and I don't have all of those in my room. I just built a gaming PC at a cost of like $1200 not counting monitor, keyboard, and mouse. With all of this money invested in my gaming rig it's very important to me that it has the best internet connection possible as I do play a variety of competive games (shooters, rts, etc). It would be a shame for me to have this beastly computer and then have my gaming hampered by the wireless. Networking your home also raises property value so I feel like it would be a good investment.
I just remember a while back I was going to have cable run upstairs in a place I was renting and when the tech got there he said it would be an extra $150 to fish the wire upstairs. If I'm doing 2 upstairs and the guy gets here and wants to charge an additional $300 that would be a problem.
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![]() Moving the computer is obviously not an option or I would have already done that.
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