Home Networking in Your Apartment Made Easy
For most people, home networking is as simple as connecting their modem to their Wi-Fi router, and then following some basic router setup instructions. Then, all the devices in their home can access the Internet via the Wi-Fi network that they set up. Hurrah! End of story. 🎉
However, such a simple setup may not always be ideal. This was the case with me recently since the quarantine began and I moved to a new apartment. I purchased Google Fiber’s Webpass internet and although the classic Wi-Fi setup I described above worked for a while, I quickly started to feel frustrated by the limitations of Wi-Fi, and desired the full capabilities of the gigabit internet that I am paying for. This was exacerbated by the packet loss I experienced while I was gaming, one of the remaining enablers on my sanity in this day and age.
So… I decided to get my hands dirty one night and after a grueling session of experimentation, I succeeded in a setup that allowed me to use the ethernet ports in my room while we had a wireless access point as well.
Looking back, this is actually a fairly simple setup, but without much prior networking knowledge, what I saw when I opened my telecommunications closet (I didn’t even know what this was called previously 😅) can only be described as a monstrosity.
