My home network worked fine until I discovered how broken it was

I thought I had my home network nailed, with client devices that matched the broadcaster, an ISP plan that was sufficient for my needs, and hard-wired the few devices I had that needed Ethernet. My apartment had both coaxial and, according to the listing, Ethernet cabling through the walls, and the wall jacks were all for 8P8C instead of the smaller phone jacks, so I assumed those connections had been done correctly and would provide the connections I needed. I've had issues after running new CAT6 cables because it snagged the nails on the carpet stays and broke a conductor, firmware issues on routers making the WAN - LAN connection limited to half the Gigabit it should have been, and overburdened Wi-Fi routers with too many smart devices connected at once, to mention a few more that I didn't mention earlier.

Author: Joe Rice-Jones

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