Disclaimer: I live in Europe, so my house’s walls are made of bricks and mortar, no plasterboard to easily cut / patch up.
I have a room that is generally cooler than the rest of my home and it’s also far away from my bedroom, so I setup my home lab there. Until now, I managed with WiFi, but I switched operators due to soaring prices and I got screwed since the download / upload speed on this one is kinda shitty. Hence, I want to pass LAN cables from my home lab to my home office, which would mean going through two rooms or, correspondingly, two doors. Since it’s my property, I thought of cutting a couple of centimeters from the door frame and then lead the cables through a skirting board and then through the space cut up from the door frame. What do you think? Any other idea?
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I fail to see how a LAN connection would help you if the bottleneck is the ISP
If I read this correctly, an ethernet cable will not increase your down/up speed from your ISP.
But going to hardwired will reduce the loss that comes with wifi. If you have already slow Internet, finding any way to maintain it without degradation can be worthwhile.
I’m all for Ethernet when it comes to stability, but wifi is very fast and unless OP is transferring large files, Ethernet is not worth drilling through brick for. I also think it’s not worth looking at external conduit for.
It’s also possible OP is using ISP provided wifi which isn’t as good as the old stuff, or is simply on the wrong channel in a congested area.
You can run the cable along the skirting board
Get an electrician to see the job. They’ll be able to give you estimates for various options, chasing in interior walls, doing a run outside, or possibly in ceiling cavity. They aren’t that expensive.
Can you route them under the floorboards or through the ceiling space?
You could try power line ethernet adaptors instead of cutting up your house with cable.
Also, there’s no right way to do it exactly it depends on your local building codes. For me, if I run cables though any walls it null and voids my insurance policy as it breaks building codes to have anyone other than an electrician do it. YMMV depending on where you live.
Mm you can always pass an Ethernet cable through the corridors and cover it on the wall with a “channel” or something . I passed it from first floor downto the basement through a window of the backyard around30 meter minimal loses barely visible
Go up and then come down? What is the ceiling made of?
Drill a hole, cable is only about 6-7mm in diameter.
unused coax? use moca adapters
Brick house here. Initially I only used WiFi and powerline, but the powerline had to jump to another ring circuit. I got about 150 MBps so not too bad as it was faster than my ISP.
I drilled a hole about 2m high in my living room wall to outside. On the inside I put a single junction box to mount my WAP to. I used a scutch chisel to cut a channel down to ankle level and put a double box there. I put a conduit pipe between the two boxes and fastened it to the brick with all round band. I used outdoors LAN cable from the double socket through the conduit to the WAP and then 3 cables going outside and then up through the roof into the loft. I used modular euro sockets; I would recommend them.
Drilling and chiselling brick and then plastering and painting took a long time and was hard messy work. I could have used some plastic trunking stuck to the wall but I think that’s quite ugly. I don’t care about the cables attached to the outside of the house; I already had multiple external cables.
If I was more skilled in building work and more patient, I would have run cables under the floors and under the stairs.
I go thru the floor but my house is made of wood and drywall.
I’ve used IP-over-AC in the past and it worked well for me. There will be some data loss but it’s a lot less of a hassle to setup. If you own your home though, I’d probably just run the Ethernet cables. If you don’t want to drill holes, run the cables along trim and use coax staples to attach them to the wall or trim.
If you can’t do it correctly, maybe something like monoprice slim run cables tucked under baseboards? I see you’re in the eu so monoprice isn’t an option but I’d bet there are other places to get slim Ethernet cables. They’re like a spaghetti noodle in thiccness
Just renovating an apartment. We are redoing all the 30 years old pipes and electrical. So I ran CAT7 cables in PVC pipe from rooms to rooms underneath the floor tiles. Hopefully we can move in before Christmas.
