Ethernet and Wifi

[WifeStoreWill]

I’m not getting the download speeds I should get and the Jews at Verizon will only help you if you’re renting their equipment, which I’m not.

I need someone who can come test all my wiring and shit, look at all my equipment and actually figure out what, if anything is wrong, and maybe install an Ethernet port or two in the office which is annoyingly one of the only rooms that doesn’t have one.

Who do I call to do this? I don’t even know what kind of professional does home networking shit.

 

[Professor Rape]

With the weekly windows 10 updates, I've had to have my OS reinstalled TWICE due to compatibility issues. Now, $200 geek squad dollars later, I've eliminated that mess but I get this pop-up scam, when I take the computer out of sleep mode, that has a window that won't close and audio of some limey twunt telling me that my computer's been infected by a virus from a malicious porn site and that I need to call the number on the screen because all of my personal info including Passwords for banking, social media sites, credit cards, etc... etc... have been compromised.

Most asshats would shit themselves hearing this blaring from their computer speakers, as the very official looking screen blinks an 1-888 number and implores you to call it to work with their "windows professionals" to eliminate this infection.

If this happens to you, do the following:

Hold Control, alt, delete simultaneously.

Choose "task manager" from the resulting menu, and close your browser.

It disappears. I'm not sure if it'll happen again, but for Christ's sake... DON'T call the number and play ball with these mongrel terrorists. The only infection your computer has is some fucker slipped in that pop up in the form of a familiar email with a link you (and I) mistakenly clicked.

Go to "remove program" in your control panel and look for one of these. Delete it, problem solved. THANKS FOR YOUR USELESS SECURITY UPDATES WINDOWS 10!!!!!!

 

[Racist Google Intern]

There's a company that can give you some insight on your software, ask them.
edit: They're called insight software

 

[WifeStoreWill]

Nice asking for advice on a dead radio show forum, stupid

 

[JoshFromMichigan]

Tell customer service that you're not getting any service at all and they will send someone out. When the guy gets there, tell him you are having speed issues. Otherwise, ask the IT guy at work if he knows someone who does home networks.

 

[FranksWirecutters]

I’m not getting the download speeds I should get and the Jews at Verizon will only help you if you’re renting their equipment, which I’m not.

I need someone who can come test all my wiring and shit, look at all my equipment and actually figure out what, if anything is wrong, and maybe install an Ethernet port or two in the office which is annoyingly one of the only rooms that doesn’t have one.

Who do I call to do this? I don’t even know what kind of professional does home networking shit.

Send @whippinghuskies your address.

Seriously though, most people don't know this. If you put a standard electrical plug on a cat-5 (or greater) cable and plug it into each of your devices and then into the wall it clears up most problem.

 

[WifeStoreWill]

Tell customer service that you're not getting any service at all and they will send someone out. When the guy gets there, tell him you are having speed issues. Otherwise, ask the IT guy at work if he knows someone who does home networks.

Anyone they send here won’t do shit as soon as they see I’m using my own router. I tried.

 

[Brooke Shields]

Anyone they send here won’t do shit as soon as they see I’m using my own router. I tried.

Rent their shit rip-off router for a month and then see if it's any better & if they can help if not.
Also post your modem/router. Is it a modem or router or both? You could be fucking up if you have a both one AND a router - but thatd be a wifi thing and you havent mentioned that speed

small companies that install cameras will do wiring jobs, don't know how much it will cost. You can buy a bundle of wire if you have an open basement and then try to put it up a wall yourself but that's a big IF considering you're of the intelligence to look here for internet issues and asking if someone can "test all my wiring and shit", there's really only the coax that goes to the modem, then an ethernet to the router(unless you have a 2in1 which is the standard now) then it'd be any hard-run wire to test but if it's bad everywhere the wire isnt the issue

 

[Turk February]

Try unplugging your internet for 30 seconds and plugging it back in

 

[JoeBrotheChildSpitGuzzler]

I’m not getting the download speeds I should get and the Jews at Verizon will only help you if you’re renting their equipment, which I’m not.

I need someone who can come test all my wiring and shit, look at all my equipment and actually figure out what, if anything is wrong, and maybe install an Ethernet port or two in the office which is annoyingly one of the only rooms that doesn’t have one.

Who do I call to do this? I don’t even know what kind of professional does home networking shit.

Better call that faggot ken sanders when he's doing his Cable Doctor show

 

[aRTie02150]

Try unplugging your internet for 30 seconds and plugging it back in

This usually works.

 

[WifeStoreWill]

Rent their shit rip-off router for a month and then see if it's any better & if they can help if not.
Also post your modem/router. Is it a modem or router or both? You could be fucking up if you have a both one AND a router - but thatd be a wifi thing and you havent mentioned that speed

small companies that install cameras will do wiring jobs, don't know how much it will cost. You can buy a bundle of wire if you have an open basement and then try to put it up a wall yourself but that's a big IF considering you're of the intelligence to look here for internet issues and asking if someone can "test all my wiring and shit", there's really only the coax that goes to the modem, then an ethernet to the router(unless you have a 2in1 which is the standard now) then it'd be any hard-run wire to test but if it's bad everywhere the wire isnt the issue

Ok so I’ll try and describe what the setup is but I’ll use the wrong terminology for shit so don’t focus too much on what I’m calling something.

My house is a row house with no basement so I’m not going to try doing any wiring myself.

I’ve got Fios service. There’s a big metal box outside of the house that I assume is where the shit comes from. There’s wires in there I can take a picture tomorrow if it’s important.

The house is wired for Ethernet in most rooms except the bedroom that we use as the office, which is annoying. This is probably 10-15 years old at this point, done by previous owners. All the Ethernet cables come together in a big plastic box on the wall in the garage. There is also an Ethernet cable and coax cable that comes in there from the box outside. This is the “source” of internet and tv service for the house.

Currently I have that Ethernet cable plugged into thevWAN port on my router, an Asus rt-ac68u. Its years old but should still be plenty good enough to handle what I’m doing, as far as I know. The Ethernet cables that come from each room into the garage are plugged into the router, or into a switch and then the router because it didn’t have enough ports.

Doing a speed test from anything plugged into the Ethernet shows 200-250 Mbps when I’m paying for a 400 500 Mbps plan and would like to increase to gigabit.

Also on each floor of the house I’ve got an RP-ac1900 plugged into the Ethernet and acting as WiFi access point. WiFi signal is fine in most places.

So what I’d want to find out, I assume, is

1. Is that Ethernet cable that connects the garage to the box outside still good? Is it limiting the speed somehow? How can I test that?

2. Do I need a new router? Or new access points?

3. How hard/expensive would it be to wire that room that has no Ethernet?

 

[Brooke Shields]

This is only from the little knowledge I have, I don't work for any ISP.
I don't understand a Row House, no one is sharing your outside box right? Just in the back or what?

There is also an Ethernet cable and coax cable that comes in there from the box outside. This is the “source” of internet and tv service for the house.

At that point I'm assuming the coax you can see inside is only for TV stuff.
I'm wondering how big your outside box is, cause FIOS boxes *inside* I've seen are kinda big like 1.5ft long 2ft+ tall, and have Fios written on them somewhere. I've seen those things with burn marks on them, like they fucked up somehow from weather or a discharge, whatever(and yeah inside not exposed to stuff)

You could get any kind of ethernet wire tester

I'd be interested in the outside wire going inside. Is it not actually exposed to outside weather or anything?

I dunno, so
1.) can you use the above to test that main ethernet cable from your fios? Do you even see an offwhite "Fios" looking box. which is technically supplying internet?
2.)i don't know about your multiple APs. If they're good for working with eachother. I'd figure they should if you set them to AP mode, a device should just switch to the better connection as you walk, but this stuff can be shitty/glitchy so if a main gripe is wifi it may have to do with these.
Thing i first mentioned, if you had a modem giving out wifi AND a router giving out different wifi you'd run into problems, but your APs are all giving out the same connection option right? Just 1 possible wifi name

3.)someone's going to fuck you, though I dont understand what a row house really is if you have a garage


My main assumption is you're never getting what you're "paying for" speed wise, and they have all the motive not to help someone in your scenario.
And I'm of the conspiratory mind that even if ISPs were competent enough to give you what you're paying for that they would throttle it since you're not a +renting router customer.

Fun side note: I'd been paying a measly $35 for internet somehow just streaming on a laptop and playing video games, years later my girlfriend moves in and it randomly goes up to $65 then 2 months later $105. I swear it's because she wants to leave the TV on streaming something for the dog and it's a unknown agreement about my data usage. Their deals only exist to fuck over the customer since there's no alternative

 

[WifeStoreWill]

This is only from the little knowledge I have, I don't work for any ISP.
I don't understand a Row House, no one is sharing your outside box right? Just in the back or what?
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At that point I'm assuming the coax you can see inside is only for TV stuff.
I'm wondering how big your outside box is, cause FIOS boxes *inside* I've seen are kinda big like 1.5ft long 2ft+ tall, and have Fios written on them somewhere. I've seen those things with burn marks on them, like they fucked up somehow from weather or a discharge, whatever(and yeah inside not exposed to stuff)

You could get any kind of ethernet wire tester
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I'd be interested in the outside wire going inside. Is it not actually exposed to outside weather or anything?

I dunno, so
1.) can you use the above to test that main ethernet cable from your fios? Do you even see an offwhite "Fios" looking box. which is technically supplying internet?
2.)i don't know about your multiple APs. If they're good for working with eachother. I'd figure they should if you set them to AP mode, a device should just switch to the better connection as you walk, but this stuff can be shitty/glitchy so if a main gripe is wifi it may have to do with these.
Thing i first mentioned, if you had a modem giving out wifi AND a router giving out different wifi you'd run into problems, but your APs are all giving out the same connection option right? Just 1 possible wifi name

3.)someone's going to fuck you, though I dont understand what a row house really is if you have a garage


My main assumption is you're never getting what you're "paying for" speed wise, and they have all the motive not to help someone in your scenario.
And I'm of the conspiratory mind that even if ISPs were competent enough to give you what you're paying for that they would throttle it since you're not a +renting router customer.

Fun side note: I'd been paying a measly $35 for internet somehow just streaming on a laptop and playing video games, years later my girlfriend moves in and it randomly goes up to $65 then 2 months later $105. I swear it's because she wants to leave the TV on streaming something for the dog and it's an unknown agreement about my data usage. Their deals only exist to fuck over the customer since there's no alternative

1. I’ll have to go look at the box outside tomorrow and see if I can find where the Ethernet starts. I think the small Fios box you’re talking about is the power supply/battery backup for the big thing outside. They’re directly opposite the same wall for me. There’s no Ethernet wires outside exposed to rain and stuff.

This isn’t my picture but I think this is same/similar to what I have outside:

2. I do have 2 different WiFi’s. One 2.4 ghz and one 5ghz

3. A rowhouse is exactly what you have pictured there. You can have a garage in the back, which we do.

 

[WifeStoreWill]

Your Ethernet may only be wired for 100Mbps and not anything higher, especially if it was done 15 years ago. Take one of the wall plates off the wall and see how many wires are hooked up to each Ethernet jack. If not all 8, then you’re not going to get full gigabit. Also read the markings along the cables to see if they’re Cat 5e or higher. If that’s the case and not all of the wires are hooked to the jacks, all you need to do is make the additional connections at each end of every cable and that should solve your issue.

You could also buy an additional access point, set the WiFi name for the 2.4 and 5GHz to the same as the existing network, and put it in the closest room to where you have the issue. If you only have one wireless AP (your router) then you won’t get good coverage in rooms far away.

I’m getting 200-250 so it’s not that

 

[porquedealer]

I’m getting 200-250 so it’s not that

For the bedroom just use powerline adapters, they are decent enough that you shouldn't have any issues unless you are doing a lot of copying of files across the network.

test speed directly plugged into the router ethernet with a laptop and patch lead. is it still 200-250mb/s?
if its the same its your ISP or router.

If you get faster then test the cabling however its unlikely to be that if ALL ethernet ports are reporting same speed.
are the wall ports that are directly patched into the router the same speed as the others going through the switch?

99.9% of the time its one of these things:
router/switch has 100mb/s ports or is fucked.
ISP are fucking jews.

Buy/borrow a used router and swap it in to confirm the asus is ok or not.

to test wall ports, copy files over ethernet from router end to another computer at the other end. large 10gb file or so so you can see the sustained network speeds.

 

[DiarrheaDick]

Honestly, you really should just suck it up and pay for Verizon's equipment if you can't manage this shit yourself. Don't waste your money on a cable tester either, nothing would be working if that was the problem. Also, don't bug your IT guy at work with this issue unless you want him to actively avoid you going forward.

When you say you're getting ~200mb using Ethernet, are you plugged directly into your Asus router, or the line directly from your FiOS box outside? You want to bypass as much of your own shit (including wiring in the house) so you can start with square one and just work your way down the line. I've never fucked with FiOS myself, so maybe go into your router settings and find the WAN address before plugging it directly into a computer of some kind. There's more setup required if it's a static address. Or just look up some computer places to do it. You're more than likely going to have to open your wallet at some point.

 

[Child..]

...$200 Geek squad dollars later.

 

[RoTheHo69]

Did you spit some rhymez to it?

Peace.

 

[Brooke Shields]

Also did you clarify, is it mostly wireless devices you care about (but your APs are getting their feed from a line in the wall?)

There's some APs that are meant to run together, meshing or something, so your device will "seemlessly" switch to a closer one when walking around and the connection becomes below the threshold.
Yours might not be for that. Like your device might be connecting to an AP that isn't the closest or best signal, but just because it was the last one it connected to, and it's not going to swap since for all it knows there's only 1 AP