chandlermaxwell

Let me know if this is a thread better suited for the troubleshooting subforum. I am a very beginner networking DIYer so forgive me if I use the incorrect terminology. I recently moved into a new house and have COX internet service. They ran a small modem box inside my house and mounted it on the wall of my small network closet to connect the internet from the utility box to the house. From there I have the single wire from the modem running into a NetGear unmanaged 8 port switch, with the first out port going to a Nighthawk AX6000 router for Wi-Fi and the remaining ports are filled with the cables to run to the various hard wired RJ45 ports throughout the house. I used a Fluke Tone Generator and Probe kit to figure out which wire goes to each port throughout the house and labeled them accordingly. The issue that I am having is that the wired ethernet connection will randomly stop working. For example, in my home office, I had my workstation plugged into the wall outlet and one day the internet was working fine, and the very next day, it couldn't connect to internet via the ethernet cable. This has happened on 3 different wall outlets throughout the house. Any ideas? I'll snap some pics of the equipment and cables this evening to add to this post for reference.

They do have a supported list of modems that will work with it. Pretty much anything that was Docsis 3.0 or better was compatible. They did tell me that the internet service I'd be getting to my house will be coming off of a fiber optic connection at the utility box located in the front yard. I may have made that a little unclear in my original post. Sorry about that.

Thanks! That's a good point about being stuck with their hardware potentially. I am dealing with Cox Cable, so I'll have to reach out to them and see what is actually provided.

My internet service provider has the option to rent a modem/router from them, but based off of my experience with their hardware in the past the performance is lackluster at the price, and the range on the unit is enough for maybe a 1 to 2 bedroom apartment. I will definitely want WiFi throughout the house, but I plan on having the big users of internet hardwired to the wall (gaming console, TV, work computer, home security system, etc.) The only items that will regularly be using the WiFi connection will be laptops and cell phones. I could probably justify spending $300-$400 if the hardware was going to last and not become outdated in the next year or two.

I'm a new member here to the forums and not very well versed in networking setups. I'll go ahead and apologize in advance if this topic has already been covered somewhere else in the forum. I am moving into a new house and we have a new internet plan that is up to 500 mbps coming in off of a fiber optic line. My questions generally are related to what is going to be the bottleneck and what sort of speeds should I realistically buy hardware for to harness the max amount of the speed I'm paying for, such as: If I get a modem that will handle XXXmbps speed and then connect a router that's capable of 1gbps to that modem, is that 500mbps that is flowing through the modem and router now going to be split across all the connected devices? (example: 5 devices connected to router and now each one would be capped at a theoretical 100mbps) I'm worried that if I go out and buy the latest and greatest super modem and router setup that most of the potential of the setup will be wasted along with the money I paid for it over a more tame system. Thanks in advance!

I'm working as a graduate assistant this semester and was tasked with helping figure out how to get a process more automated within my department. I am an accounting major so my computer programming experience is next to zero. I am trying to figure out the best way to have email notifications sent to folks when files are added from to a network folder. We are using PDF fillable forms and they get one process completed in one network folder by an employee and then get copied over to another network folder for the next person to complete their portion. It's at that point that I'd like the system to send an email notification maybe every hour or something if there have been additions to the folder. I don't really care about email notifications for file deletion. The problem I've run into so far with solutions I've found online is that my organization uses Gmail for our email services and every batch file I've found requires the usage of Outlook or some other type of SMTP type email set up. Thanks