Home Networking Rant

All I see many on this forum looking for answers for their home networking issues. Over time I have learned allot from research and forums like this. I have Gigabit through Comcast and fortunate that the northeast does not have data caps and my node is not saturated. I feel that the age of Covid and remote work and learning as put more strain on our home network and ISP. Not everyone here has a nominal grasp of networks, wifi ethernet etc, or they would not be here in the first place. Many here are encountering the limits of their home networks weather it be an internal issue or ISP. There are tradeoffs for the home user from renting or not renting your modem to the set it and forget it (15 minute setup out of the box) to the command line SSH home network. I feel for the "Non Technical" person who has to call a relative every time their network has an issue. I could come up with types of the typical home user and rank them from 1-5 or 1-10 with how reliant they are of others when things don't work but what would that do? To make the most of your home network parents (Bill payers) is to keep as much off your WIFI unless there is no option. A hardwired connection (as old school as that sounds today) is still the best way. If your kids laptops and gaming devices, TV's, streaming boxes have ethernet connections hardwire them. This would help with issues such as remote learning and VPN's for mom and dad working from home and use the most of the bandwidth you are paying for. Find an electrician (or do it yourself) and run some CAT 6 through your home to various locations that have hard wired devices mentioned above. Keeping more things off your wifi is like having more cars off the freeway, it makes for an easier way to travel from point A to B. This frees up the freeway for the devices that have to exist here. Best to all :) via /r/HomeNetworking https://ift.tt/343DJJK