Networking - Moving away from WiFi

vaughan mason - 2021-05-16

As soon as the threat of lockdown began appearing last year, I knew that working from home and the wifi network was not going to work. Don’t get me wrong, I have a mesh wifi installation that works for the majority of use cases but I also have a fast line that I want to use fully for work. In order to get the full benefit, I learnt a few networking fundamentals that I would like to discuss. Added complex because I live in South Africa with load shedding, the network needs to be up as much as possible.

Simplistic home network design

This is a simplistic design of what might be in your home.

• You get your internet connection from you Internet Service Provider
• The signal is received by your home router
• You may have a separate wifi router
• Switch is used to break the signal into multiple parts

Network Cable

If you did not have any wifi and you only had router, you would need to connect a cable from the router to your machine. This cable is called an Ethernet Cable. You can by these cable ready made or you can make them yourself.

How to make a network cable

You can follow the instruction here on how to make an ethernet cable

A straight through cable is constructed like this:

Basically you are ensuring that the wires are in the correct order on both sides.

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