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It’s just more precise work to do it right. Idiot working upstairs at my parent’s house untwisted 3" before terminating jacks. And that’s why those jacks only get 100Mbs. I’m going to have to re-terminate all of them, and have been saying that for nearly 30 years now! Thank God they didn’t terminate all the jacks so I’ve got a shot at doing those right. The ones that were terminated correctly will iperf 700-900Mbs, so that’s pretty good considering there was no gigabit standard when the wire was installed and was the only 400Mhz rated wire on the market that cost us 2x as much, but was a great investment. If 2.5Gb/5Gb runs over it, that will be pretty awesome. We put 2x ethernet and 2x coax in each room and still have areas that were underserved. 2x of each on each wall and ceiling is the only way to go.

You mean Jose or Jesus…I haven’t seen a white dude at a residential construction site in almost a decade now (sad to say)…

Most electricians still do not know how to terminate in 2023–and this is after seeing what type of garbage work they did in 1995 at my parent’s home–NOTHING has changed in nearly 30 years. I would have them run the wiring and do my own termination. Use the money saved on termination to double up on wires in case one is damaged when being run.

Pretty interesting and covers a lot of things I’ve never thought of before–thank you for posting!

lol! I was going to say still run it to bathrooms for APs and smart things that are appearing in the bathroom (mirrors, bt speakers, etc).

I would pass on the smurf tube–that stuff sucks unless you have an existing pull line.

smurf tube is useless ime–use 2" pvc or nothing at all.

This, plus do 2x coax drops per location. Basically as many coax as your have ethernet. The uses of that wire keep expanding. Some pre-terminated fibre would be nice too as it’s pretty cheap these days.

Easiest or best? Best–install keystones and a proper jack. Easiest–put an outlet cover over it and screw it into the sheetrock (I’ve seen this done for holes in walls too)

One way to help you think about vlan segmentation is to think about how it would look if they were actual physically separate networks (which is essentially what a vlan is–a virtual lan). If it doesn’t make sense when you think of it this way, it won’t make sense as a vlan.

And also keep in mind that IP segmentation is possible on the same lan, which keeps things on different networks while on the same physical lan. This can work in effect like vlans as well.

In general, I disable ipv6 so it only grabs ipv4. I would try that. They may have enabled something that will not issue an ipv4 if an ipv6 is issued.

Generally, no. You’ll create a packet storm and the switch will disable a port or your network will crash from all the repeated traffic.

LAGG is possible with some to increase bandwidth, but not more than what the isp provides.

Possibly, but more than likely not. Easy test would be to connect two systems and run simultaneous speed tests on both. If each one maxes out, then yes, you can get more bandwidth this way.