No more WiFi: How to wire your house for Internet 

No button to turn off WiFi? Watch this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SJFAk4EGLXg.html

The reason I'm watching this video is so my wife won't punch me in the face for having so many cables loose in the house. Thanks bro

This is great knowledge. Now to get a house...

Things I learned watching this video: 1. How to hardwire a house for internet without WiFi 2. Bob is my uncle

I take umbrage at the term:" Bob's your uncle". My name is Bob and I have 10 nephews and nieces and I don't need any more, thank you.

You don't have to turn off the wifi in order to use an Ethernet connection, fyi for anyone watching that still wants to use wifi for their phones and tablets. This video is brilliantly educational however.

Speaking very soft. Why does he remind of Bob Ross?

Cat-6 can support 10Gbps, not just 1Gbps. Cat-7 is not an official standard but is also rated for 10Gbps - however it can achieve 40 Gbps to even 100 Gbps at shorter distances. That being said, most places use Cat-5e still and Cat-6 will be future-proof enough in SOHO environments for some time now

when I wired my home for TV, I also included Ethernet wiring.... thank goodness I did! its really handy!

Even if for whatever you only have 1 device, never plug a device straight into the modem. There should be an intermediary between the modem and devices, like a router. Most router provide some level of DOS protection and firewall, while a modem does not.

If you’re going to run your cable in the air duct, not recommend IMO make sure you get one that is rated for it. As in plenum rated.

But, did anyone notice Godzilla outside the house?

I want to add a few important notes to installing ethernet cables. 1., remember that each individual ethernet cable should not be longer than 328 ft or 100 metres. Be careful when planning your route for the cables. It may be only 10 m between the source and the target location, but maybe due to cosmetic reasons, you route the cable along the door frame, up behind the cupboard, etc.. it can end up very long indeed. 2. It will be rare but remember that the shortest is no less than 60cm. 3. Be aware of speakers due to the magnetic field. Now most home electrical appliances are shielded. But cheaper ones have poor shielding properties due to obvious reasons, cost of manufacturing. Magnetism destroys digital data signals. As a side note, NEVER place your external HD or USB sticks on top or near speakers. Also, low-quality power supplies emit magnetic fields due to poor shielding. 4. When daisy chaining switches, the amount of data bandwidth is shared by the number of connections at each level. I mean each switch in the chain is a level. 5. As in the example in the video, the sitting room, even if the first connection source is 1 GB connection, is then shared by 4 devices. Now, if all 4 are watching a 4K video, the experience may get choppy or stuttering. 6. Although this video is about replacing WiFi with ethernet, just to mention some reasons for the degradation of WiFi signal apart from poor equipment. Beware of any lattice structure in metal between your router and your device. Such lattice will act as a sponge, soaking up or rather interfering with the WiFi signal, e.g. concrete wall with metal reinforcement, or a simple metal ladder. 7. As pointed out in the video, all the switches rely on a power adapter. In my experience over 40 years, most of these are made in China. If anything goes wrong with the switches, it will most likely be the power adapter. Most, if not all users, will never switch off their network switch. So, the power adapter would have been on for days, if not hours, or months. Due to the cheap price of the switch, the power adapter will not last forever. Oh, one more thing, these power adapters can get pretty hot. So, don't keep them in a jam-packed space or have things piled on top of or around them. Do check on them and make sure that they are not so hot that can burn your fingers. If they are too hot, switch it off.

I just ran Ethernet and Telephone jacks all over the house using wall-plates, Looks really nice and no cables are exposed, the Only downside is it requires a lot of working crawling around the attic and installing faceplates, But the end result is worth it if you are able to. Nice video, Was trying to find a video for my friend who is unable to do what I did, Thanks!

bruh this is like bob ross in 2020 keep up the good work

Thanks, Scotty!! You convinced my husband that this would be better than wifi. Guess a guy needs to hear it from another guy...the wife...its just another honey do on a list to be ignored! Love your videos!

I appreciate the time and effort that you put into this video and going into deep description for the people who aren’t IT savvy. I myself am an IT and definitely was thinking the whole time I was watching it that if I wasn’t an IT I would appreciate the details. I tried a mesh system and that works OK, but the goal is always to have Ethernet ran throughout my house. I definitely like this method of passing off to various switches, but I did have a question. Does passing off to multiple switches degrade the speed performance?

Never heard "Bob's your uncle" before. Nice saying. Will have to use it and see if I get any "huh?". Really, your videos are very easy to follow, even if I don't always understand everything fully.

Great introductory explanation! I wanted to add that if you have Coaxial cable wiring already in the house, you can send your internet data over the Coaxial wiring using a MoCA adapter. I've had mixed success with this. For some reason, some of the Coaxial cables work with the MoCA adapter and some don't. It may just be that some Coaxial outlets in my house are defective.

We have 150 mbp/s internet, but its wifi. I usually get around 20 mbp/s. Thats why I am planning on getting ethernet cables. Helpful video!

Excellent advice. Clearly stated, not like so many other geeky videos. Merci beaucoup.

Cat6 actually does support 10Gb/s up to about 55m Cat6a supports 10Gb/s up to about 100m

It’s nice to see somebody bring up the subject of health risks of wireless communication. It’s always such a quiet topic.

Maaan who’s disliking this? Very helpful and clear tutorial bro this helped me alot

Am I missing a joke or is this dude unsarcastically saying we should use an Ethernet cables to connect our phones to internet? Great explanation btw. I just found that detail ridiculous.

Great video!!! For those that don't see a need for ethernet cables, you obviously don't live with gamers and streamers. I have 1000 Mbps fiber and still have the need for ethernet cables if I don't want to listen to WW3 break out because somebody died in Call of Duty or somebody's RU-vid show is lagging. Heaven forbid that I need to do some work of my own on the house computer you'd think it was the end of days around my house. I recently moved my router to the main floor and upgraded to Cat 8 cables, which helped some, but hardwiring my computer has done wonders for me. Now thanks to your amazing video, I'm going to get an ethernet switch for my gamer with rage issues and there should be peace and harmony in the house.

Cat5e does 1gbps where as Cat6 cable can do 10gbps speeds up to 50-55 meters.

Best evidence I've come across yet on why I should use WiFi with a router and extender if necessary.

If I want my 650k house to look like shit I’ll run my cable like this. I was hoping to learn how to actually wire through the walls and have an actual Ethernet plug in my wall.

I am a retired IT Specialist working in the public sector developing business applications such as finance and accounting, management information systems but temporarily did systems work maintaining an IBM mainframe computer (VM/ESA OS). As far as networking, I was and now sort of a novice in terms of the nuts and bolt of the trade (I always looked at systems people as mechanics that knew something about computers). However, one boring winter about ten years old I decided to embark to wire cable up my entire house with CAT6 cable, the most advanced technology at the time. I wanted the fit-and-finish to be perfect with wall jacks placed the the most ideal locations as possible (living room, dining room, the three bedrooms, location of the printer. Living in a one story house has enabled me to route the cable anywhere I wanted to EXCEPT the outside walls where I did not feel comfortable about tangling with the house insulation. After some research and no experience installing the connectors, I decided to use large patch cables because they are so cheap and with a wide variety of colors the cables can be color coded in case someone does something stupid in the attic and chose cable with solid copper wires which are more durable for behind the walls applications. Once the placement of a jack was decided and the wall cutout for the jack (an oscillating cutting too works great for that application) was performed, I drilled a small hole in the ceiling directly above the jack location next to the wall pushed a utility marker flag (used to identify utility lines in the ground) such that could easily seen in the attic and shows exactly where to drill a hole down though the top plate. After that it was a matter of feeding the cable down to the jack opening. I used a special cable gun for fastening cables down. All cables headed to the "computer room" which what was called by the builder a "sitting room" connected to the master bedroom. I used a wall plate for eight connections. Basically the modem is connected to a router with one input and four outputs and one of the outputs from the router is connected to a managed NETWEAR "Fast Internet" switch with eight outputs that I got off Amazon for $20 with a rebate. Even with the recent so-called "fast" DSL service upgrade, there is no way I could reach the capacity of the switch. The patch cables coming from jacks have stranded wire and color of the cables corresponds to the color of the cable behind the wall (except for the living room where white was chosen for aesthetic purposes). I did label each jack identifying its use and a warning not to paint over the jack for some future owner of the house. The multi-cable jack in the "computer room" as the destination of the cable for easy identification (like "LR" for living room and "FBR" for front bedroom) as well as the cable itself. The small holes in the ceiling were patched up later. Note that before installing a cable, I used an Ethernet cable tester (which is very inexpensive purchase on Amazon) to verify the that cable worked from end-to-end and tested after installation. The extra length of cable in the attic was loosely spooled and hung somewhere out out he way. Also, this project was possible because I have a one story house, I was ten years younger at that time, and implementing utility markers to locate the hold that needed to be drilled the plates above the jacks. I suppose that I started the project not necessarily to prevent bombardment of electromagnet radiation but for fast and reliable service, especially for video applications like Netflix. Since installation I had a router die and replaced and a really cool CenturyLink router that replaced my old DLINK router that I purchased instead of renting one when my service was upgraded. For someone with a one story house and easy access to the attic it is a very doable job us. It is just that it is necessary to be careful up there because you have to watch every step you make.

Never met anyone that used wired internet for their smartphone...

Wow, Scottie! Excellent topic and instructional. You're a great guy for making these videos and teaching us all.

Just a heads up, cat6 can transmit data at 10gbps up to 40m (sometimes father), and cat6a can transmit 10gbps up to 100m (which is the maximum distance that copper category can be run without special equipment)

We are remodeling a house. When we bought it, the internet company didn't offer 5g. Now they have run fiber optics through 2 sides of my yard and now my house in this literally 4 city block unincorporated town is more radiated than my house half a block from a 5g tower where I live now! Everyone has 2 antennae and I can see everyone's wifi coming into my house. I can feel and hear it. I'm so pissed. We were already planning on hardwiring every new room and the front porch. Now I guess we will have to do some shielding as well since I noticed our master bedroom faces the smart meter from my neighbor. My only adjacent neighbor. You are funny. I will definitely be getting a bigger screen just to watch you!!

Great video. “Bob’s your uncle” LOL”

This was EXACTLY what I was looking for. You made this make sense to a carburetor guy. Bravo!

I think he's trying tell me that my uncle is Bob. But how did he know???

All you experts have missed the point, he is giving BASIC info AND he is talking about existing buildings. How many of you experts have networked a building in France that has stood through a revolution and two world wars?

Clear and descriptive , Very nice Scottie , I am in process of ether netting my farm house ,Now !

"And Bob's your uncle" 😂 I gotta start using that one lol

I am in the perfect stage here in 2024 building a house that has been roughed in as far as framing to run cat 7 cables Jack's damn near all over the place thank you very much!

I have a professional EMF reader and have found on many devices that even if you turn the WiFi off, the device is still emitting the same level of radiation output as when it was on. For example I got a new modem from my internet provider and regardless of whether I switched it off manually or in the software, it emitted the same radiation. I disassembled the unit to try and unwire the antenna but looks like it was soldered into the board. I still use the old modem, same brand but emits nothing when Wifi switched off. I also bought an expensive Samsung TV that was blaring radiation when it was switched off in the solfware. I had to open up the TV rear to disconnect the Wifi module and then it became silent. So be careful, you may think that because you switch off the Wifi that it is no longer there but you have to check with a meter to be sure.

bro....that digital crib looks amazing, we need to party there!

Never delete this. It helped me understand my confusion

I have to say routing those cables Wil be one fun project

aaaaaand Bob's your uncle. Getting ready to wire up my own home. I'm getting a little tired of random wifi drop offs.

A video that is at least 25 years too late. I was running ethernet to every room in the house 25 years ago. How did I manage that without a hand holding video? We had common sense and initiative back then. If only it was that simple as your hand holding video suggests. My UK home was built in the early 1700's from stone. Even the interior walls and ground floor is stone. The only wood I have is the roof, doors and upper floors. Drilling a hole in the wall is a task in itself. Wifi doesnt go thru stone walls too well. My router lives in the roof space. Cables run down into the rooms

CAT6A is rated for 10GPbs over 100 meters.

cat 5e supports gigabit. 6 supports 10gig for shorter runs and 1 for longer runs, cat 6a fully supports 10gig. cat 7 supports higher speeds and or longer distances.

Great video! Powerline Ethernet is also a great option to running cables all over the place. It only works however if the house wiring is not too old. I've used it many times in both residential and business settings.

Only problem I have with this is I am no one’s uncle??? Why does he keep saying that

Nicely done Scottie, I feel much better about taking on this project.

Best video for starting out I've seen. Thank you. I used to design and build cables - your explanations are spot on. Well done. Good tips too.

Brilliant! Thanks so much, I feel like I was reborn!

I had a feeling you were Canadian. But when you said "And Bob's your uncle" that confirmed it.

I bought 2 5 port boxes for about $19 us. I feel safer now instead of wifi. Plus it's way faster. Best thing I bought in a while.

You have saved me, I was about to buy CAT6A cables for my ongoing project but I'm buying Cat7 instead.

Note: I generally don't advise people to use ethernet-over-power line adapters for 2 reasons: lower speed usually, and noisy power lines (vs. the twisted pair/shielded signals in ethernet cables). Of course, that may be needed for rental situations if you can't drill holes. Then again, you can always get creative with your ethernet cable routing! I certainly do...

Att said it would cost $150 for reroute install coming from the back of the house. This video helped thanks. Oh I wasn’t thinking till you said why not watch your videos. I just sub

I appreciate the godzilla 😂

My spouse insisted on seeing zero wiring so when I installed a surroundsound system in my living room, I hid all the wires behind crown molding and then punched a hole in the drywall and ran the wire vertically down the inside of the wall,installed the speaker outlet box so everything will flush, no wires hanging out. This would apply the same way if you were running Ethernet, instead of hiding them behind wire covers. Just make sure you have a schematic of your house wiring so you don’t drill into existing wiring. It was a win-win for me as I got my surroundsound system for movies, and she got crown molding.

No one Scottie: Bobs your uncle!

If you are worried about radiation, it’s nothing to worry about. I am a Ham radio operator. And as such I have learned of all the RF, radiation, that exists, that goes through your body at any given moment. What I mean is that every frequency for your local police, fire, EMS services go through your body 24/7. Radio waves don’t stop where you home walls begin. Not to mention RF from businesses using radios, video monitors, very low frequency submarine communication. As a ham a can talk from 1.8Mhz all the way to 10Ghz. What I am saying is that anything you can pick up on a radio (including AM and FM stations) is going through your body all the time. So worrying about WiFi radiation is a tiny concern compared to all the RF that is actually going through you every second of the day. Not to mention your neighbors WiFi. My advice to you is not to worry about WiFi radiation. The WiFi signal looses energy for every inch it travels. You would have to live with WiFi antenna on your person for a few hundred years before it Might do you harm. Not to mention, your TV and all your monitors put out radiation too.

Simplest explanation ever. Thank you.

i love my ethernet cable!

Thanks for a great video. This is a good start for starters who want to get away with WiFi. However, who who would walking around with a phone or tablet with an Ethernet cable tagging along? We still need WiFi.

That ... was ... brilliant!! Thankyou Scottie so much; I've already bought your Wi indeed T Shirt and aim to keep spreading the word, as it were, about the negative impact of Wi Fi on health. I've just got my QLink through as well, already noticing a difference 🙂 . Your videos are so clear, well produced, and well thought out ... and easy to understand, Thankyou again.

When I get a custom-built home, this is included in my todo list. ✅✅✅

Scott ross Edit: I only watched this video because my computer kept disconnecting from WiFi and I assumed it wouldn’t happen if I used Ethernet. Ima try this, thanks for making this video!

This is how I wired the condo I was living it while I was in college 9:37, which looked like trash. I thought this was going to be best practices for running the cables through the walls and installing keystones/wall plates. If you actually don't want your spouse to punch you in the face you invest in tools and take the time to make the runs through the walls. #disappointment

As a presenter you are really good. Like professional kind of good. The video itself could use some editing and better directing. 10/10 for everything else.

I hope you folllow this excellent series on some connectivity stuff eg print fron any device or even centralized storage etc ......watching out for future gold !

Watching this vid, I feel like I just woke up in 1995. WiFi for the win.

Really helpful. Thank you Scottie

Highly informative. Thank you. But, if like me, you use home security devices, such as the Ring products, you will still need some wifi capability since these products can only communicate via wifi. And you might need a strong wifi signal since most Ring products are installed outside the home. Thus, increasing the area the wifi signal needs to cover. Especially if you have something like the Ring Mailbox Sensor, which is installed in your mailbox. p.s. If you look at the Ring products, some will say wired. But they do not mean ethernet. They mean electrical. If a Ring product does not say wired, it generally runs on battery or solar panel + battery.

Dude, you're really pushing it! I've got my entire home quite wired as well but running cabling for your smartphone? Seriously?! I should have figured that you're one of those anti-WiFi people thinking their brain will get fried by radio waves. I'd advise you to review lots of the information in this video cause you're actually misinforming a bunch of people here!

As a lady/wife, I am tired and annoyed about people assuming that 'a spouse' / 'wife' would disapprove 'men' / 'husbands' doing 'manly' / 'tech' / 'tactical' things. You all need to keep in mind that there are some girld who love it when you guys do what you enjoy doing and some are interested.

I'm such a geek I really want ethernet. Just the idea of DIY... I'm gonna try and pay someone to do it for me lol

The solution is simple. POWERLINE Powerline passes Internet through homes electricity cables. So, u can connect your main devices with ethernet. For the wifi which is important for tablets and smartphones u can use wifi but at least now u can disable the 5G signal and use only the 2.4G which is less harmful. Personally I have turned off both signals from my modem and I have connect a second modem (as a bridge) for wifi which I turn on when guest come over or when I need wifi for my smartphone or tablet. ALSO don't forget that u can use your laptop (or desktop if it has wifi) as a HOTSPOT. There are a lot of ways to avoid wifi signal passes through your body in a daily basis and still have a very good and fast internet.

Awesome video very well said and displayed. I saw Godzilla nice touch...and Bobs your Uncle!

J'adore ta chaîne mec. Tu parles de tout ce qui a avoir avec la merde dont je veux me débarasser. No wi-fi. No cellphone. No interferences. No data collecting. No big brother bullshit. I LOVE it

Great job with this video and Bob's your Uncle.

"Bob's Your Uncle!!!" Gotta love it:)

My house hasn’t been wired. Come on over!

DEVOLO.. the wonderful device that injects your Ethernet (LAN) signal in your electrical house wiring and you can pick it up anywhere within your house. I even have my 4 Sonos devices connected and they work like a charm.

If you are doing this to avoid radio waves health risks then i really hope you arent going outside into that UV radiatio.

For some reason you remind me of Dr Jacoby from Twin Peaks, although he had like red and blue glasses. You should start wearing those in your videos, it would make my day

This is still amature style runs. Go through the dry wall. Put boxes in each room. I ran mine professional.

Right now I have wifi. I will research your other videos to see how to switch to ethernet. As a person who knows NOTHING about this, the questions that I am searching for are: 1) how does ethernet pick up signals from the internet? is it through the phone line? 2) once I know where the signal is coming from, then I connect that to the D-Link boxes I think... and 3) once I have that I can wire the rest of the spaces for ethernet. Sorry if I sound stupid about this, but I haven't looked at or thought about this for a long time, taking wifi for granted, and then trying to be in a healthier and less fried situation. LOL. "No more WiFried" should be a T-shirt!

Simple, concise and informative. Thank you!

Would be nice to have a less than 4-5 minute video about ethernet with Smart phone or tablets! Guessing it may be as simple as an adapter. Nice video, I figured it was basically switches and running cable neatly. I have ethernet stretched across house for my wife lol but she doesn't mind because we're both health conscious. EDIT: I see at the end of the video you cover that material and mention you've already done the video... haha love the shirts

a lot of the stuff in this video is just plain incorrect information but others have already explained the errors. The thing is he seems to know about the specifications and standards for category cabling so why not look up proper ways to install category cabling. otherwise, the information is well presented and he seems a good-natured guy.

Thanks Scottie , I received useful information

Yesssss thanks so much! I work from home and sometimes the wifi is finicky but with the Ethernet connection to the router I’ve experienced way less issues. So I’m looking for a Ethernet setup for several devices.

We’re all being bombarded with radio waves all the time lol

Wow thank you so much!! WiFi gives me heart palpitations at night. I try to turn it off at night. We just moved and didn’t have internet for a week and I slept so well during this time! We rent so I didn’t want to spend a ton of money getting hardwired. So excited to find out this is something I can do on my own!! Thanks so much.

This guy is the Bob Ross of connecting your house to the ethernet.

Great video...I also live in France... supperb thanks

Who uses smartphone with cables? I think you miss the whole point of smartphone.

Very smoothing voice I feel safe lol. Great tips thank you good sir!