> Most houses build in the last decade or two use at least cat5 for phone lines. Just refit the outlet, plug in a switch where they all connect and, boom, wired network. Place a few strategically located wireless APs, adjust the signal strenght, and you have great coverage all over.
My parents' previous house was 2011-ish had the phone lines run over Cat5, but they still daisy chained jacks so it wasn't easy to convert to ethernet use.
That's not the only place I've seen that stupidity too.
> Edit: An alternative is to get a wifi extender that supports 5Ghz and 2.4Ghz and (this is the important part) allows you to use one of those as the back haul. You give up one of the frequencies, but you don't halve your bandwidth.
The nicer "mesh" kits in some cases even have three radios per base where the third is dedicated to backhaul.
My parents' previous house was 2011-ish had the phone lines run over Cat5, but they still daisy chained jacks so it wasn't easy to convert to ethernet use.
That's not the only place I've seen that stupidity too.
> Edit: An alternative is to get a wifi extender that supports 5Ghz and 2.4Ghz and (this is the important part) allows you to use one of those as the back haul. You give up one of the frequencies, but you don't halve your bandwidth.
The nicer "mesh" kits in some cases even have three radios per base where the third is dedicated to backhaul.