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Hi, my basement was renovated and I made sure to have ethernet wired in, however the person talked with my dad and ended up running one cable from the router which is upstairs to the basement and then subsequent cables from one outlet to the other. I found this out after the fact and thought that wouldn't work but after some research I now know it definitely won't work as ethernet connections are peer to peer (the original thought was to have rj45 keystones and splice the 2 cables together and then do the same thing for all the other keystones/outlets). So I've been looking for solutions (there's no way to run new cables, been told the current one's have been stapled in) and nothing works. There's no space to put switches or anything of the sorts and reviews online say the Ethernet t-splitters are bad to use. I came to the conclusion that I need a switch integrated into an outlet, I've seen some POE wall switch/splitter (supports gigabit) but they only split to the rj45 jack on the front of the outlet, are there any available that split to the front connector and have a secondary split within the outlet? I'm not really sure what to do in this situation so any help is appreciated! Thanks in advance!

gotcha, that's what i though but wasn't sure. Thanks for the help! much appreciated

Hi, i have a cat6 cable running from my downstairs router to my room upstairs, a bit ago 2 repeaters on my block from my isp went out so we had them come out and fix it. At that point i noticed that no matter what my speeds on my desktop in my room topped out at 90mbps, i plugged an Ethernet cable directly to the modem and checked the speeds and they were at the full 500mbps. I checked this a few more times and the results were always the same so i deduced that its my cable causing this drop but its been running fine for a few years, also the cable is being run through my vent reaching my room (yes its sketch but its the only way i could get wired into my room). Now my question is this: is it possible that a damaged Ethernet cable can cap the speeds of the internet connection its providing? thanks in advance!

I dont even think this can happen unless the second router is in bridge/extender mode but make sure the second router is in bridge/extender/access point mode. Also when i was running 2 routers i had a significant drop as well initially, i found that running the channel selection on auto was the problem as both seemed to be on same channels interfering with each other. I recommend you place the channel selection on manual for the routers and fiddle around changing the channels and testing the speeds to find which channels work best for each router in each area. Mine ended up liking 1 and 2 for the main router while using 6 and 7 for the extender (these channels don't matter because everything is relative to my situation and not yours). And if that doesn't work id just replace it like how @Electronics Wizardy said. Good luck!

I've been constantly looking and switching for a distro to replace windows and yet i keep going back, i've used ubuntu, manjaro, and dabbled with mint. I like what manjaro offers and is but just cant get the dpi scaling to properly work/match the bliss that windows provides when it comes to screen scaling. I'm running a lenovo yoga 2 pro i7 model which has a "quad hd" display whcih i understand to be 2k resolution. This screen has plaged me from switching and running basic programs without messing with resolution settings. My question is what is the best distro that makes hidpi screens bearable, doesnt has a weird trackpad accelerated snap on effect, and in general is simple and light to use -Thanks!

Thanks for the advice and help, i got it to work. For some reason every program i tried to make to bootable usb failed to do it properly only when i got the latest rufus version and imaged it in dd mode did it work. thanks again for the help!

Im trying to run it off of a laptop and it does that when i try to run the liveusb, i select the usb as the boot device and then the grub thing happens, im running a lenovo yoga 2 pro with an i7 and 8gb of ram

Hi, i previously had installed ubuntu as a dual boot with windows 10 on my lenovo yoga 2 pro (i7, 8gb ram, 256gb ssd). But i eventually decided to get rid of it after some file issues and just not being happy/interested in the distro. So i booted into windows deleted the linux partitions and changed the boot sequence, but i think my genius (sarcasm) ass took the stupid way out as the Ubuntu option is still in the boot menu when i went to change the boot sequence and when i go to boot from a usb. Now when i try to boot manjaro from a bootable usb it says "error: unknown file system, entering rescue disk..., grub rescue>" which i also read up on and comes up like this as an issue when uninstalling an os when dual booting it with windows 10. NOW the question is does anyone know a way to fix the grub bootloader to allow it to boot a usb/ know a way to completely remove the grub loader option so it doesn't show up on the boot menu which is what i think i need to do so that it can boot live manjaro usb again. (i also already tried doing "ls, ls (hd0)/" to find the partition with linux but since the partitions are deleted it doesn't work and i have no clue where grub is sitting, also i tried resetting the mbr in cmd and that did not work as well) Sorry for the long backstory but i figured it was needed to understand tldr: to uninstall a dual boot with ubuntu i just deleted the partitions, now ubuntu is still an option on my boot menu and when i try to run a bootable linux usb it says unknown filesystem, please help thanks