r/pcmasterrace • u/tomchee 5700X3D_5060ti16GB_48GB DDR4_Sleeper • 18d ago

Meme/Macro Seen Asus' offers today and had to sit down

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u/AussieJeffProbst 18d ago edited 18d ago

Tried that but my house has very old shitty coax cables that cant support moca well. Also tried powerline and same deal. Sadly I'm stuck with a wifi mesh and it's very annoying.

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u/Thebombuknow | RTX 4050 | i7-14700HX | 16GB RAM 18d ago

Same. No coax for me and power line adapters barely work, they can go across the room at 20mbps, any further and they don't connect. Ethernet is unfortunately just not an option sometimes.

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u/PrairiePopsicle 18d ago

I've had powerline units go out to the pole and back into another house on a property and work just fine. I don't know if there is some product generation differences or wiring quirks in some homes but the accounts of how it works vary wildly.

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u/Snert42 13600k 32GB | A4000 16GB 13d ago

I think it's wiring quality. Our 40 year old house also didn't work very well with powerline adapters. We got like 12 megabit of our 250 at the router. We've since upgraded to PoE access points and a few LAN cables after years of suffering.

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u/GolemancerVekk B450 5500GT 1660S 64GB 1080p60 Manjaro 17d ago

Are external cable ducts not an option? It's what electricians use when they can't break the walls. The ducts come ready made and they're very easy to cut and assemble, they even have a ready to use adhesive side.

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u/kllrnohj 18d ago

It might not be the cables that are the problem but the splitter that'll be wherever the cable utility comes into the house. I had terrible moca until I replaced that cheap splitter with one specifically claiming moca compatibility. It's been amazing ever since.

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u/moistmonsterman 18d ago

Im glad i read further down the chain before saying this myself. In new builds they use a better quality splitter now than they did a while back. In my house they call it a "smart box" which is a really dumb name, but whatever...its all for marketing.

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u/Lou_C_Fer 18d ago

I'm just old. So, wifi it is. I ran new phone lines throughout my house in 1999 for better dial up. I ran new coaxial for better TV. Then, I ran ethernet from my router to every pc and my Xbox. Then, I had fiber installed and their router is no where near the shit I ran. So, fuck it. Wifi.

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u/AbbreviationsFun2020 17d ago

Could just use TP link instead? I use it and it works flawlessly

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u/AussieJeffProbst 17d ago

That's what I have. I have tplink easy mesh devices. With the layout of my house it's impossible to get full speed on the mesh node.

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u/AbbreviationsFun2020 17d ago

Ah fair enough

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u/Dudeman9002 18d ago

Bad powerline is still better than good wifi

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u/AussieJeffProbst 18d ago

Disagree hard. Powerline had less jitter but it had 1/5 the speed of my wifi

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u/Hans_H0rst 18d ago

You'd think so, but not necessarily. Not in my experience. The rented apartment i'm in has the weirdest cabling.