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fly said:
What's the easiest way to do that? And if I don't really care about protecting the whole circuit with a GFCI (and have to buy two), I can just put it on the outside box, correct?
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Jehannum said:
Yes, you can stick it on the end of the circuit and it would protect only that outlet.

I don't know what code says about a GFCI outside, but if you were to run a new circuit straight outside, you'd probably have to have the GFCI there, so logic dictates that it should be allowed.
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assuming the end of the circuit is where he wants his outdoor outlet physically.
 
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Domon said:
you're complicating it for fly.
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No, you're complicating it for no reason.

There is literally no reason why he couldn't hook the GFCI to a pigtailed box, if he doesn't want to protect anything else on the circuit but the outdoor outlet. It can go in like any other outlet, as long as he's aware of the consequences.
 
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Jehannum said:
No, you're complicating it for no reason.

There is literally no reason why he couldn't hook the GFCI to a pigtailed box, if he doesn't want to protect anything else on the circuit but the outdoor outlet. It can go in like any other outlet, as long as he's aware of the consequences.
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That was kinda what I was getting at. I can just hang it off the other outlet.
 
Lots of times I see the stuff you guys are going to have access to that I’ll be missing out on and I get pissed for a half a second, because then I realize a lot of you will be under water of having homeless people with college degrees getting unwanted pregnancies, and can’t afford to feed themselves let alone a family, etc etc…

yeah, fuck that.
 
But the window thing is awesome. Up here in the PNW, when Bill Gates’ house was being built, we were hearing about that and changeable picture frames back then.
 
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cc: computer thread

I forget what all I've said in here vs. just on fb, but I ended up doing powerline internet which mostly worked OK for me, except it meant any time Jason tried to run his welder, it was choking out my internet and I was losing my connection.

my internet comes into my house via coax, so we did a test run of running a long ass connected bit of coax from that initial entry point to the modem, with the modem upstairs, and then connecting the modem to my work PC via Ethernet. it worked, but while my speeds were still in the "fast" range, it was significantly lower than when everything was in the basement.

the numbers on the length of coax we have seems to match with the coax coming in from the internet company, I'm not sure what the length of added cable is but it's probably less than 100ft (edit: it's about 50 ft), but it's also definitely an old beat up cheap length that a friend of ours just cut himself ages ago for running cable TV to an old apartment. do y'all think that the speed losses could just be bc of the ostensibly cheap/crappy coax, or would I expect to see a big loss anyway bc of the length?

for reference, I was originally getting about 200+ down and now I'm maxing about 40. still plenty of internet to get stuff done, but I'm just annoyed bc it COULD be better lol
 
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without the 50’ ratty cable do you get the speeds you pay for?


How many times is the line split?


Might be better to run a 50’ Ethernet cable than extend the coax.

Shitty cable combined with low signal strength because your line is split a bunch will cause lower speeds.

Amazon Basics RJ45 Cat-6 Ethernet Patch Internet Cable - 50 Feet (15.2 Meters) Amazon product ASIN B0134QJH4G
 
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