Questions tagged [internet]
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How to do the most simple and least signal-loss coax-run for Cable TV/Internet (like Comcast)?
Long story short... I am selling my place and after dealing with lacking Cable TV/Internet signals and non-working coax outlets for years, I had all my water piping replaced and now many places ...
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Identifying relevance of phone / internet terminal wires
I have the following wire terminal in my crawlspace which I suspect is original to the 1950s home:
It has one (newer, add-on) cat5 cable which goes out to an exterior "Telephone Network ...
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Can I run a second exterior coaxial cable to replace a problematic one? [closed]
I just moved to an apartment and WiFi connection is poor. A tech came in, checked it, and said that "there is an issue with coaxial wiring from outside of the building and we need to fix that&...
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How do I complete a hardwire internet network in my home?
I had a new home built in 2017 and had it wired with cat5 cable to all the rooms.
The junction box for the cat5 & coaxial cable is in the garage where all the cat5 wires terminate. None of the ...
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How can I supply internet to the ethernet ports in my house? [closed]
I moved into a new rental about a month ago and had a local company setup our wifi with no problems. We are getting wifi via Google Fiber.
The house has ethernet ports in every room and I would like ...
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How can I make use of Cat 5e cabling in my home?
Recently moved into a late 2000s home.
There’s some Cat 5e cabling throughout the house that’s only being used for telephone outlets. I can see not all the twisted pairs are being used.
There’s also a ...
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How is an Xfinity coax jack activated?
I recently moved into a new flat that primarily accepted Xfinity, as it's considered LIHTC, so a lot of their residents are on the Internet Essentials plan.
I had opted to get my Xfinity router/modem ...
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Coax Cable Shorted in Home - Trying to Add MOCA (Cox cable/internet)
I've successfully added 3 MOCA adapters to my cox internet setup (cable tv + cable internet).
I identified the coax cables I want to use for hard wiring except 1 - which is shorted. By process of ...
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Home Voip GV service/Phones not working with Cat5e wiring
General networking. Landline telephone number using a digital voip google voice service box. I want the GV box and phone moved into the hall bedroom. I can’t get a dial tone on my landline ...
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Does this TV cable need to be rehung in a proper manner?
The company cable installer loosely hung cable on these tree branches to cross a public road rather than using poles or at least affixing the cable to the trees themselves.
Do I need to have them come ...
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Easiest way to connect fiber optic cable to my detached shop
I have a ISP ran fiber to my home with a cheap ISP provided modem. I run it to a wifi mesh for wifi and a router for ethernet connections. I want to run a fiber line to my shop and set a router and ...
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What would be the way to bring the internet to the house from the usb internet stick which is 350 meters away?
I'm not at all a professional in this domain, but I'll try to explain the problem as briefly as possible.
I'm trying to bring internet to the cottage. The only way that the internet provider offers me ...
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Best Practices for running data conduits through basement [closed]
I'm a new homeowner, having recently moved into a 1920's house. I'd like to run Ethernet conduits throughout the house. The basement runs the full length of the house and its ceiling already hosts ...
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Running fiber and rj45 through wall plate
Currently my fiber line just comes in through a hole in side of my living room wall. I would like to move that wire on the outside of the house to a hole that goes into the basement then run it to a ...
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Router in front of patch panel doesn't work, yet it works behind the panel [closed]
I have a strange situation here with my router and my patch panel.
After years of using it perfectly over WiFi I decided to connect it to the patch panel to wire my desktop. I observe 2 different ...