Board:   [fsxNet] fsx General
Subject: Little thing to geek out over: Ethernet wiring
From:    Nightfox (21:1/137)
Date:    Sat Nov 07, 2026 00:40

My wife and I recently moved to a new apartment to be more in between where we both work (she had a longer commute, which is now shorter). Sometimes I like to geek out over little things..  This is the first apartment I've ever seen that's wired with ethernet ports in each room, and I think that's handy for setting up computers & such in other rooms - and it's also more reliable for things like streaming devices compared to using wifi.

That wasn't a major factor in choosing this apartment; we simply liked this apartment better than the others we saw. I was surprised to see an apartment wired for ethernet; most houses aren't even wired for ethernet (though maybe newly built houses are these days; I just haven't seen many with ethernet).

The ethernet ports all go to a panel in the master bedroom closet, which is also where our fiber internet terminal is. I set up our router to hang on the wall in there (with a couple of push pins), connected to the fiber internet terminal and to the ethernet ports there. That way, the router is neatly hidden away in the closet, and I don't need to have a long ethernet cable strewn across the apartment to connect my computers like I did in our previous apartment. And our streaming devices for TV can simply plug into the ethernet port in the wall too. I just like how it makes for a neater network setup.

Nightfox
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