• teft@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If you own your house you could learn to pull cable and how to do punchdowns. It’s not a super difficult job. That way you could impress the lady of the house with your technical skills while also hiding the mess.

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      1 year ago

      In my experience, the part about hiding the mess is all she cared about, as long as “the internet still works.”

      But you will always look at that wall jack and feel great about it while always having the lowest latency and highest throughput you can possibly get, and that will always impress yourself!

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      1 year ago

      I’d be careful giving broad advice like this.

      In my country (Australia) it’s illegal to run cabling yourself unless you’re a registered cabler.

    • SomeRandomWords@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Honestly for newbies I always recommend inline couplers instead of punchdowns. Still meets electrical code in areas where you can’t run a cable through a wall (wiring only) and allows for the use of non-crimped cables so the barrier to entry is far lower. It’s not like most houses are at risk of hitting the length limits for Ethernet runs anyway.