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
Can you route them under the floorboards or through the ceiling space?
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.
If I have to, I always drill near the bottom, behind the baseboard (if my translation is not completely off). I hide the hole behind it and when the next wallpaper change is necessary I make a slit to the normal height and install an outlet. As a short term solution you can use the cover as cable duct until you are ready to do it properly. Keep in mind to always make straight cuts so you always know where your cables are going.
chip the wall for an appropriate depth, install conduits and run the cables through them. Then apply suitable mortar and paint.
Painful and dirty work but that is the only proper way.
If you can go up in to an attic or down to a basement or crawl spapce directly above or below that floor, that would be the easiest.
If not, drill the walls, put in metal or plastic conduit or other allowable raceway where it is minimally obtrusive to the room ifpossible. Pull bulk calble throught the conduits make sure conduits or other raceway will accomodate all the wiring you need, along with bend radiuses. Look for 40% +/- fill after the cabling is in.
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.
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.
My dad would always run cords through the HVAC ductwork. Not sure if that’s up to code, but it worked for our purposes.
If you have an attic or crawl space, you could run the cables through that. Or if you have crown molding, hide the cables behind that.
You run a wire through the instalation hoses. Then you tie the LAN cable to the wire, pull it through and crimp it. You need to keep it under 20m or so. You can buy the pull through cable/wire yourself or buy it. The lan crimp tool can be bought for around €10. For LAN cable buy standard UTP cable.
I’ve seen some really nice conduit run along the baseboard area, if you do it right!
If WiFi worked before, there’s no reason it won’t work with a new ISP. It may be that the router provided by the ISP is crappier than your prior one, just buy your own router or AP
They make em wireless now they calling it WiFi or wirelessfireless or something idk
