On 7/15/2019 5:56 PM, tb wrote:
On 7/15/2019 at 2:59:53 PM John McGaw wrote:

On 7/15/2019 1:41 PM, tb wrote:
I am thinking about getting AT&T Fiber internet and do the setup
myself.

The fiberoptic wall plug is in the living room of my apartment. I
would like to keep my desktop PC and fiberoptic modem in my bedroom.
The PC has an Ethernet port but no Wi-Fi, so the connection modem/PC
would be via Ethernet cable, that's why I want to keep PC and modem
close to each other.

But I have to find a solution for the connection between the
fiberoptic plug in the living room and the modem in my bedroom.

The idea is to purchase a long Ethernet cable (about 50 ft) to do
that. Do I need to purchase a crossover or a patch Ethernet cable?

I see them both available online...


If you have a "fiberoptic wall plug" in one room and the "fiberoptic
modem" in another room in another room it seems as though you would
need a fiber between the two not a standard cable, crossed over not
not. Are you leaving something out? Most "fiber" providers include a
little magic box in the system that terminates their fiber and
converts the signals into standard Ethernet which then go to a
standard modem or modem/router/switch box. Do you have the box which
does the fiber-to-Ethernet conversion? If so, where is it located?

Well, I live in an apartment complex that was recently wired for fiber
internet. AT&T contractors did the wiring. The apartment management
sent out a memo saying that each unit is ready for fiberoptic internet.
All we need to do is to subscribe to one of AT&T's Fiber plans, hook up
the modem etc. that AT&T sends, go through the registration process,
and voilÃ*.

All I can tell you is that they installed a wall plug in the living
room of my apartment. It looks like one of those telephone wall plugs
for the good old landlines where you plug in the cable on one end and
the other end plugs in into the phone. Only this one would go from the
fiberoptic wall plug to the modem and it would be an Ethernet cable,
not a telephone cable.

Hope I have clarified the issue.


Path of least resistance (as I see and understand it): put the modem near
the wall plug and get wireless working. Buy a good wi-fi module for your
computer in the other room. This seems to be way easier and probably
cheaper since good pre-made Ethernet extension is not a cheap item while a
wi-fi module generally is. It will also save the considerable labor of
trying to route a cable from room to room where you are not free to drill
holes in rented walls willy-nilly.

Believe me, running cables in a residence can be horrible. A few years ago
I had to run one extra Ethernet cable from my AT&T modem to provide an
extra feed to the TV box upstairs (I had pre-wired my house for gigabit
Ethernet years before but the TV box would not willingly work when fed by a
switch from the existing Ethernet jack) so I had to run this single cable
perhaps 35 feet to get it where it needed to be behind the home theater
equipment and it took the best part of a day, not counting time to patch up
necessary fishing holes in walls and repainting. I have run literally miles
of cables during my career and this was one of the worst. Sometimes it is
best to just give in and do wi-fi. But if you are _really_ against using
wi-fi, there are always power line systems which will give connectivity in
difficult situations, albeit sometimes a bit slower.