Hello everyone!
I hope you are all doing well!
A brief description of my issue:
My router is located in the living room. To get the best possible internet connection on my PC, which is in the bedroom, I use a 20-meter (65 feet) Ethernet cable that runs across the entire apartment. Of course, this does not look good and is also dangerous (tripping hazard).
Therefore, I want to route the Ethernet cable along the baseboards. This looks better because the cable is no longer visible, and there is no longer any risk of someone tripping over it.
Laying the cable is not a problem, but I have a different question.
I would like the Ethernet cable to retract automatically along the baseboard in the bedroom when it is not plugged in anywhere. Similar to how a vacuum cleaner’s power cord retracts.
I hope you can help me with this, and I wish you a nice day.
Best regards
I hope you are all doing well!
A brief description of my issue:
My router is located in the living room. To get the best possible internet connection on my PC, which is in the bedroom, I use a 20-meter (65 feet) Ethernet cable that runs across the entire apartment. Of course, this does not look good and is also dangerous (tripping hazard).
Therefore, I want to route the Ethernet cable along the baseboards. This looks better because the cable is no longer visible, and there is no longer any risk of someone tripping over it.
Laying the cable is not a problem, but I have a different question.
I would like the Ethernet cable to retract automatically along the baseboard in the bedroom when it is not plugged in anywhere. Similar to how a vacuum cleaner’s power cord retracts.
I hope you can help me with this, and I wish you a nice day.
Best regards
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Bieber081516 May 2018 12:02Powerline!
Bieber0815 schrieb:
Powerline!That is exactly the opposite of interference-free AND fast. Over longer distances, the speed usually drops significantly (unfortunately).
M4dman schrieb:
By the way, these access points are absolutely amazing... we have several of them installed on the floor at our company. I’ve never seen such a reliable and maintenance-free Wi-Fi network. Really great devices. That’s why I’m pointing this out. These devices are rock-solid. Running Ethernet cables concealed in the walls to a convenient location, and powering the devices via PoE, also helps gain approval from the household’s interior design team 😉
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Bieber081516 May 2018 14:39Domski schrieb:
That is actually the opposite of both trouble-free AND fast. Over longer distances, the speed usually drops significantly (unfortunately). 20 m (65 feet) is not long. To meet the requirement of "best possible internet," the connection probably only needs to be as fast as a typical internet connection ("DSL").
If professional online gaming is involved, the PC should better be close to the router. But then I'm out ... ;-).
Bieber0815 schrieb:
20 meters (65 feet) is not very long. And to meet the requirement of "best possible internet," the connection probably only needs to be as fast as a standard internet connection ("DSL").
If professional online gaming is involved, the PC should be connected directly to the router. But then I’m out ... ;-).20 meters (65 feet) of electrical wiring is quickly reached, even if the outlets are physically quite close together. A small example from my old rental apartment:
Devolo adapters with a gross speed of 500 Mbit in the hallway (router) and 2 in the living room (TV and desk), hallway and living room each on separate circuits, initially on different phases, later on the same phase. Switching the living room connection to the same phase brought about 20 Mbit gross more.
Estimated cable lengths:
Router - apartment distribution box: just under 10 meters (30 feet)
Router - TV: about 12 meters (40 feet)
Router - desk: 30 meters (100 feet)
The connection between TV and router was very good at around 250 Mbit. At the desk, speeds were just under 70–80 Mbit, sometimes only 20 Mbit. After experimenting, I found that one outlet in front of the desk had the satellite antenna cable crossing the path of the power cable, and at the outlet before the antenna cable, the powerline adapter suddenly showed a stable 150 Mbit. In cable length, the powerline route was shortened by about 7 meters (23 feet), which I then bridged with a temporary Ethernet cable.
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Bieber081516 May 2018 22:00It really depends on each individual use case... In an apartment with somewhat questionable electrical wiring, I used Devolo adapters at the PC and conducted two DSL speed tests (the two most reliable results among the first five Google hits), which just about reached the speed promised by the provider ("up to"). Before that, I had installed a 25-meter (82 feet) LAN cable—not because the apartment was that large, but because the route along the baseboard and over doors was quite long ;-).
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