• Midnight Wolf
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    327 months ago

    *Excluding running ethernet cables to every room through the attic, down the walls to wall jacks. Also the cost of the jacks, and the various switches needed for several rooms. And the contractor to do it all.

    But hey for like $600 I have cat6a in basically every room so

      • @PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
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        27 months ago

        Not everyone is comfortable drilling walls and installing plates, stripping wires, etc. and CAT cables aren’t like simple copper electrical wires.

        And not everyone wants to have cables running along their floorboard and up their stairs

    • @Zess@lemmy.world
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      97 months ago

      And then you still need a wireless router to get Internet on your phone unless you use data at home like a crazy person.