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.
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.
You can run the cable along the skirting board
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.
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.
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.
I’ve seen some really nice conduit run along the baseboard area, if you do it right!
Two options, if the house is “double brick” (IE brick wall that has an airspace between, them) drill a hole, and use plates to hide it again.
If its an old thick stone type building, then Google Chasing Brick Wall. The tools are not expensive, but it is messy and requires filling and repair. but its all you can do.
You can chase a double brick home if you want, but its a bit pointless.
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Wait you have double brick with airspace as a dividing wall? This is interesting, where?
Up through the ceiling or down through the floor. Alternatively, surface mount on a tacking strip or hidden in molding. Surface mount and molding hidden is good for a couple cables but not for whole trunks. If you’ve got trunk-like wire bundles you’re stuck with the better of ceiling or under the floor (where is there enough space to run the cables you need? You’re still going to have to drill through brick if going under the floor (or be really mindful of wire length). Ceilings usually have a means of going OVER the brick walls but you may not like the drop wires in the rooms you want a wired connection. It’d be a GREAT start for access points though…
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
Have you considered snakeing the cables through your heating vents? Good cat5 or 6 cable will tolerate the temperature in the vents?
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.
Why not just using the tubes of the electrical system? Use fiber optic if you are afraid of EMI
