How to lay a 20m self-retracting LAN cable - tips?

Good day, Thank you for the tips! I have a Fritzbox 7590! 5 GHz WiFi is already running at my home. But I prefer a LAN cable on the PC.

I am thinking more about extending the LAN connection of the Fritzbox, which then slightly sticks out of the strip, so that I simply have a shorter LAN cable in the room. Do you know if the speed will be lost because of this?

I currently have a 100,000 connection, if then 70-90 thousand arrive, I would be quite satisfied.

That should work. As I said, you can also connect the cable to a socket and then use a short patch cable to your PC. If your WiFi range is currently problematic, try a 2.4 GHz network instead of 5 GHz.

Internet is not everything. If I have a NAS, I am very interested in whether I achieve 300, 400, or 900 Mbit.

LAN at home == 100Mbit or 1000MBit. There are no intermediate steps. Either it works or it doesn't.

Even if this is now pedantic: the statement is not true. Just measure the throughput of your lines. For example, with iperf.

Working student, lay installation cables from the switch to the bedroom with a socket each. If you don't want to see anything in the bedroom, put away the patch cable. I say, everything else is rubbish and you will regret it at some point otherwise.

Internet is not everything. If I have a NAS, I am very interested in whether I can achieve 300, 400, or 900 Mbit.



Even if this is now nitpicking: the statement is not correct.
Just measure the throughput of your lines. For example with iperf

If you start doing that, please also subtract the protocol overhead of HTTP, SMB, whatever ... ;-)

That goes too far for the user here. iperf measures the net data rate at Layer 3 and not the gross data rate on the medium (cable, wireless, fiber...). However, the speed of the medium is indicated on the box (and the port), which the normal user can then make sense of.

The 5GHz WiFi is significantly more susceptible to interference, 2.4GHz is unfortunately much more congested. Nevertheless, especially if your area is not too densely populated, it’s worth a try. If only speed matters, not latency, WiFi is a real option without any drawbacks. However, I would recommend the more user-friendly mesh variant from Ubiquiti, called Amplifi. Setup takes 5 minutes on your phone, you don’t need an extra device, and you can easily expand it.

You don't use mesh voluntarily. Why it is hyped as a miracle cure is absolutely incomprehensible to me. Especially since in this case it's not about range at all, but about bandwidth. He talks about 20m cable, i.e. correspondingly less as the crow flies. 5 GHz WLAN is the first reasonable attempt here, as long as it's not down to the last millisecond.

It's about the reception, which is not stable with the current setup. Mesh is not a miracle cure, but a method with a legitimate reason for existence. But surely you have much more experience, so I won't interfere with your opinion :)