Experiences moving router to different location within house

[kissenger]

So basically I want to move our router from our living room to a room upstairs that I'm making into an office, and I want to also run a flat ethernet cable under the carpet from the new office to a bedroom on the other side of the house, so that that room also has a wired connection. What is the easiest and cleanest way of doing this?

Here's what I'm thinking: Get Virgin out to move the termination point from the front of the house on the ground floor, to the other side of the house on the first floor. Then, take up all the carpets and lay a flat ethernet cable all the way to the back bedroom. Then, put the carpets back down. Does anyone have any experience doing a job like this, and in particular with laying an ethernet cable under existing carpets that I'm going to need to put back down. I can see this potentially turning into a nightmare where I'll end up with bare floorboard and needing to put new carpets down!

Bearing that in mind, would I be better off with a good wireless router, or perhaps running an ethernet cable into the loft or even externally around the house?

 

[kissenger]

None of the rooms have pre-existing VM boxes unfortunately. Although VM apparently will move the box for a nominal fee of £25. I'm thinking my best bet is to move the box to the office, and a cable from there into the loft, coming back down near the bedroom at the back of the house where I need the second ethernet connection.