How to network my house?

andymac

andymac

andymac

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In my house i currently use wireless to get singnals about, but it is a little hit and miss as my house is mostly brick and breeze block which limits speeds.

So, I have the main BT socket by the front door. I then have an extension telephone cable hidden in the plaster up the stairs to the spare room where main PC and modem/wireless router is. In the bedroom nextdoor to the router I have a PS3 with a cable popped thorugh the wall to the router. And in the lounge downstairs I have a PS3 as a media player, and a Wii both on wireless.

What is the best way for me to get a better signal to my PC, 2x PS3s and my Wii without ripping my house up?

And would I really benefit from putting the router by the BT master socket and running CAT 5 to the upstairs PC and PS3? This is just about possible as I have an integral garage to the house which would allow me to run the cable with minimal mess, but the run would be maybe 45 metres as it have to go up and outside wall, then across the loft etc.

My broadband is onyl 3.2-3.8Mbps depending on time of day as I'm 3.5 km away from exchange, have no cable and BT don;t plan to upgrade the neighbourhood to faster service.
 
Put the router at the master socket and post the before and after stats of your line. If its only half a meg, it might not be worth the hassle. If its 2 meg, it would be...
 
I did mine when I was trying to get a TV cable into the kitchen and upstairs soon after buying the house.

Bite the bullet and get your drill out, and get some skirting boards lifted. My terrace has the stairway in the middle of the house and a full height cellar. So living room drill to cellar, pinned up the wall of the cellar steps. Drilled through above the cellar door to the kitchen. Drilled through the top of the cellar steps roof area to underneath top of the 1st floor landing. Under the carpet of the landing and into the bedroom.

[competitor]sold kits with 20m cable, y pieces and little fake wall sockets (cable comes up out of the carpet, and is pinned against the wall) are usually about £20 ish.

Havent done the 2nd floor bedroom yet. Will need to split the cable again and either pin it up the stairway wall - cable too long then I'd say, or drill through the ceiling again, which would end up in a better position.
 
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