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    New house. Repurposing phone Cat5e. Looking for advise.

    Yes, I think starting high is probably a good idea. Thank you for the idea regarding the soft edge as well. I know I am a bit all over the place. The comment about moving was just my internal dialog that it would have been easier if this had fallen in a different location. :) I am more...
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    New house. Repurposing phone Cat5e. Looking for advise.

    They appear to be 24 inch on center across most of the walls, but in that corner, there is just slightly more than a 17 inch gap. I am not thinking that moving the wires is going to be feasible, so working with what I have. I think that I am inclined to use 2x4s. How would you orient and...
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    New house. Repurposing phone Cat5e. Looking for advise.

    Perhaps I omitted an important detail. It does not fit in the opening. Since it is in the corner of the basement, the stud spacing is such that the cabinet cannot mount flush against the foundation. Thus, my question as to whether 2x4s horizontally or vertically within the frame is the next...
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    New house. Repurposing phone Cat5e. Looking for advise.

    I ended up ordering this wall mount bracket: https://www.monoprice.com/product?c_id=105&cp_id=10516&cs_id=1051602&p_id=8628&seq=1&format=2 I am debating how to mount it now. I believe that I will have to put some sort of wood between the studs. I assume the general preference for mounting...
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    New house. Repurposing phone Cat5e. Looking for advise.

    Yes. I had something very much like this in my previous home. It did the trick at the start, but when I started adding to it, it didn't grow very gracefully. Each addition was overpriced and not exactly what I wanted. I could go this way, but it would not be my preference. Your sentiments...
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    New house. Repurposing phone Cat5e. Looking for advise.

    Ok. I feel like a bit of an idiot. When I say rack in this context, I mean wall bracket for rack-mountable hardware, not a legit server rack. Please excuse my misuse of terminology.
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    New house. Repurposing phone Cat5e. Looking for advise.

    I have used the Tivo and the MoCA capabilities in two locations already. It definitely works well. The only reason I was talking about it was because someone else mentioned that MoCA might be useful for wiring to other locations. Not sure if that is true in my case, but I was trying to...
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    New house. Repurposing phone Cat5e. Looking for advise.

    Anyone with a rack recommendation or guidance? Or is everyone in the camp that I am making this into too big of a thing?
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    New house. Repurposing phone Cat5e. Looking for advise.

    It is all RG6. The one that is cut and the one that is connected to the small in-line amp appear to be a pair from an inactive DirecTV dish, so I don't think that cable will lead anywhere useful. As far as MOCA goes, I have a Tivo Roamio and 2 Tivo Minis that will be part of the setup. The...
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    New house. Repurposing phone Cat5e. Looking for advise.

    Thanks for the input. I already have some Leviton CAT5e blocks from before. I presume that is ok? I am not clear on what the better brands of patch panels would be. I saw in a video that I should go for 110, not universal, but that is as much as I know.
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    New house. Repurposing phone Cat5e. Looking for advise.

    Thank you both for your replies. The home was built in 2006, so I am somewhat optimistic that the cabling itself is fine. Who knows if they compromised it by using it for phone, but I am thinking nothing too horrible was done. We do have Panasonic cordless phones. They probably don't have...
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    New house. Repurposing phone Cat5e. Looking for advise.

    I recently moved into a new (to us) house that had pre-run CAT5e to most locations that I would want it, but it was used as phone wire. I would like to re-purpose this for gigabit Ethernet, as you've no doubt guessed. My wiring comes to a location in the corner of my basement, right next to my...
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    [Release 384/NG] Asuswrt-Merlin 384.5 is now available

    I'm presently on version 3.80.69_2 on a RT-AC1900P. I like to keep things current, but I have apparently missed a couple of versions. It seems like updating to 3.84 is potentially dicey at the moment. An internet outage or having to buy a new router would be a day-wrecker for most, but I...
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    Need recommendation on Access Point or Router for wife

    Thanks for the slightly off-topic advice. The job itself is pretty fantastic, just not in a great place. The rest of us are planning to follow, but the nature of the job was that she knew that she would have a very short time to move once hired. Not really an option for all of us to pick up...
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    Need recommendation on Access Point or Router for wife

    That is what I was thinking about the Double NAT. I would think isolation would be preferable. I wasn't planning on doing anything with VPN. Would it complicate remote desktop programs like Team Viewer? When you say to pick a LAN DHCP that isn't the same as the landlords, you are talking...
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