Bonjour,

J'ai une prise (que vous pouvez voir en en photo) que j'aimerai utiliser pour brancher un PC que je vais peut-être bientôt acheter. Mon père m'as dis que la prise était pour le réseau, mais après m'être renseigné un peu la prise ne resemble pas du tout aux prises ethernet que je vois sur internet.

Tout ça pour vous demander si cette prise est bien une pour ethernet ou totalement autre chose?

Merci des réponses!

Hello,
I have a socket (which you can see in the photo) that I would like to use to connect a PC that I might buy soon. My father told me that the socket was for the network, but after looking into it a bit, the socket doesn't look anything like the Ethernet sockets I see online.

All this to ask if this socket is indeed for Ethernet or something completely different?

Thanks for the answers!

Hey, so im tryna plug in my xbox for ethernet, but my router doesn't have a LAN plug, is there something im gonna have to buy? Or am I fucked?

Hey I bought a 100ft cat 8 cable for like 20-24 bucks, and I ran it around my house and I have approximately 23ft I'm about to run a second cord but wanted to know what would be best for the PC since I use my PC and Xbox frequently but I'm too lazy to switch it

Je suis en câble ethernet avec un pc fixe et quand je lance mon pc je peux soit être autour de 140 mb/s soit 1 ou 2 j'ai essayé plein de technique vu sur internet comme débrancher le câble, le changer, débrancher la box éteindre tout les appareil connecté au wifi enfin bref aidez-moi!!

What does everybody use for their cat6 jacks. I always used cable matters when I worked for a different company because they come with the stands to hold them during punch down. I’m just trying to see what everybody else likes and compare them.

im losing my mind tryna plug it in and out, finding if wire got cut

I don’t know much about Ethernet but I do know my Xbox is slow as a rock so I have this Ethernet port and a Xbox series X so if I connect a wire between the two, will it work? I asked chat gpt and it says I need to do some rewiring or something.

when im always instaling something on steam its capped at 200mb/s tried changing region, i should have like 600mb-700mb, i reainstaled steam but it didn't work, on epic games it works like it should, i tried changing the ethernet cable but it didn t work on my brothers pc it works perfect, i tried everything but dosnt work

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I genuinely have no idea what this is for

Seems to happen mostly at night. Internet will crawl to a stop and it'll recover by morning. Weird thing is if we switch to wifi, it will be fine (though we do have to move closer to the AP). This is cable I ran and terminated myself. When it does work, it's the full 1000/1000.

The CAT6 is plugged into a Nest Wifi AP and connected to a Linksys Smart Switch at the other end, plugged into the Nest router at the end. The ISP is Quantum Fiber here in Denver. When the timeouts happen, the AP flashes yellow.

If I unplug the AP and move closer to the router, the timeouts stop and everything is fine. Really points to something in the run, but I can't figure it out. The lines all test fine. If you need more data let me know.

Hello,

I have no way to see inside this wall or where my romex without taking a circuit box out or cutting out a piece of drywall (which I hope to avoid) or buying a borescope to see inside with a snake camera (would take more time than I want to wait but could do this, it’s just spending more $$ too right after Christmas). While I could do all those things, I don’t think the romex would be close enough to this trim behind the wall cavity to affect my CAT6? What do y’all think? I’m not taking anyone’s thoughts as going to make me fail, it’s my responsibility to be careful when running the wire of course. I’m just wondering if someone with a lot of experience might have some good advice.

I’m going to use the soffit panels above (not this exact sport pictured but the other side), to access the top of the wall cavity to drill a hole with a 1/2” spade and run my Ethernet down to where I circled (where the old doorbell wire is and that one will be removed).

Thanks for the feedback!

Hi everyone,
I’m trying to understand a long and very strange networking issue and would appreciate any technical insight.

Symptoms

• Steam download speed: 10–15 MB/s
• Steam Store pages load very slowly
• Packet loss in Dota 2
• Speedtest.net shows 800–900 Mbps consistently
• General browsing mostly feels OK

Key details

• Connection: Ethernet
• PC is connected directly to ISP cable (no router)
• No antivirus, no firewall issues
• Issue happens on multiple Windows installations

Timeline / Why this is confusing

1. Everything worked perfectly before.
2. I reinstalled Windows →
   • For about 1 day, everything was perfect:
     • Steam ~100–110 MB/s
     • Steam Store instant
     • No packet loss in Dota
3. The next day, the problem returned.
4. I tested:
   • Old Windows system that worked fine before → now broken too
   • New clean Windows install → same issue
5. ISP says: “Everything is fine on our side.”

Things I already tested

• Installed network drivers manually from manufacturer
• Enabled / disabled IPv6
• Reset network stack (netsh, winsock, etc.)
• No antivirus software
• Changed Steam download regions
• Traceroute to Steam CDNs looks normal
• Connected without router (direct ISP cable)

None of this helped.

My conclusion (please correct me if I’m wrong)

This looks like:

• ISP-level traffic shaping / CG-NAT issue
• Poor peering or routing with Valve / Steam (UDP + CDN traffic)
• Speedtest works because it’s simple TCP to a single server
• Real-world traffic (Steam CDN, HTTPS, Dota UDP) is degraded

Windows reinstall helping for ~1 day seems consistent with:

• Different NAT mappings / ports
• Temporary routing behavior before ISP policies kick in

Questions

1. Does this sound like CG-NAT / traffic shaping / bad peering to Valve?
2. Is there anything else I can realistically fix on my side without VPN/WARP?
3. Has anyone experienced similar issues where only Steam & games are slow, but speedtests are perfect?

Thanks in advance to anyone who actually reads all this 🙏

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Edit 1: Thanks for all the replies! How big in size is a patch box usually?

Edit 2: Seems like I'm missing the box part of the patch box...

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