IT/Networking Question

[jaihawk]

When we built our house four years ago, we had them wire Cat-6 to all of the rooms. In our storage room, where the Wi-Fi router from Allo is, everything is hooked into a Network Switch and then distributed throughout the house.

In my basement, I have the network jack plugged into our Firestick, so it's essentially hard wired. My PS5 is then connected wirelessly, which isn't getting the best signal strength. I tried a simple 1-3 ethernet splitter, but that didn't seem to work. Could I do a 5 port powered switch in the basement? Would I suffer any degradation of internet strength in doing so?

Allo's routers just don't seem very strong.

 

[Jim14510]

Have an eero mesh with three routers. Never have problems

 

[ChocaEgg]

When we built our house four years ago, we had them wire Cat-6 to all of the rooms. In our storage room, where the Wi-Fi router from Allo is, everything is hooked into a Network Switch and then distributed throughout the house.

In my basement, I have the network jack plugged into our Firestick, so it's essentially hard wired. My PS5 is then connected wirelessly, which isn't getting the best signal strength. I tried a simple 1-3 ethernet splitter, but that didn't seem to work. Could I do a 5 port powered switch in the basement? Would I suffer any degradation of internet strength in doing so?

Allo's routers just don't seem very strong.

Using a switch in the basement should be fine.

 

[LoudHogRider]

Using a switch in the basement should be fine.

This. I have them running in several locations in my house - gigabit everywhere.

 

[TooTall]

When we built our house four years ago, we had them wire Cat-6 to all of the rooms. In our storage room, where the Wi-Fi router from Allo is, everything is hooked into a Network Switch and then distributed throughout the house.

In my basement, I have the network jack plugged into our Firestick, so it's essentially hard wired. My PS5 is then connected wirelessly, which isn't getting the best signal strength. I tried a simple 1-3 ethernet splitter, but that didn't seem to work. Could I do a 5 port powered switch in the basement? Would I suffer any degradation of internet strength in doing so?

Allo's routers just don't seem very strong.

Do you also have tv from Allo, with set top boxes?
If so, the problem I have seen with some friends/neighbors is Allo has the wifi power they use for the set top boxes absolutely cranked to the max.
One of my friends was like you had cat cable everywhere, so he forced Allo to use cat6 for their set top boxes rather than the wireless and all his personal wifi problems vanished instantly.
There tv set top box wifi signal was literally using all the wireless airtime.
It gets even worse if your neighbors all use Allo tv, I used a wifi analyzer and could see houses Allo set top wifi 3-4 houses away easily.
Allo has fast internet but their implementation for tv sucks ass.

 

[jaihawk]

Do you also have tv from Allo, with set top boxes?
If so, the problem I have seen with some friends/neighbors is Allo has the wifi power they use for the set top boxes absolutely cranked to the max.
One of my friends was like you had cat cable everywhere, so he forced Allo to use cat6 for their set top boxes rather than the wireless and all his personal wifi problems vanished instantly.
There tv set top box wifi signal was literally using all the wireless airtime.
It gets even worse if your neighbors all use Allo tv, I used a wifi analyzer and could see houses Allo set top wifi 3-4 houses away easily.
Allo has fast internet but their implementation for tv sucks ass.

No, we use YouTube TV through our FireSticks.

 

[jaihawk]

Have an eero mesh with three routers. Never have problems

Explain this to me like I'm 5 years old. Is this something that you can do with Allo as well? Like I said, it seems like their router is weak...

 

[redzoner]

Explain this to me like I'm 5 years old. Is this something that you can do with Allo as well? Like I said, it seems like their router is weak...

They have pretty strong routers. I run my whole house off of a single router but I made sure to have it in the center of my house.

Are you using the 5G channel for your fire sticks? (Do they support it?)

I have Roku sticks and they all use the 5G wifi so they can do the higher throughput and beam forming.

I think they also have some edge devices if you internet isn't able to cover your whole area.

 

[jaihawk]

They have pretty strong routers. I run my whole house off of a single router but I made sure to have it in the center of my house.

Are you using the 5G channel for your fire sticks? (Do they support it?)

I have Roku sticks and they all use the 5G wifi so they can do the higher throughput and beam forming.

I think they also have some edge devices if you internet isn't able to cover your whole area.

For our FireSticks, we actually have them plugged into the ethernet jack in the wall. They make an adapter that lets you do that so you're not reliant on WiFi for them.

 

[Jim14510]

Explain this to me like I'm 5 years old. Is this something that you can do with Allo as well? Like I said, it seems like their router is weak...

I have no idea what Allo is.

Eero you get 3 routers for like $300. Can get more. Easy to set up. Plug in first, plug in, set up password and such 2nd and 3rd join. Have an app that let's you group devices like by kid. Set hours of the day that they'll turn off. Very easy.

 

[Jim14510]

For our FireSticks, we actually have them plugged into the ethernet jack in the wall. They make an adapter that lets you do that so you're not reliant on WiFi for them.

If you're hard wired and having problems it has to be modem or service.

I can have 3 tvs going along with computers, phones and tablets and my modem is like 100 GB. My service is 250 GB. One TV is hard wired.

I have had a new modem to replace the old for about 3 months now because sons gaming on computer isn't fast enough for his liking. Obviously I care a lot about that since it's still in the box. I have to call Cox to get it set up.