How to wire into another room

[TheGentry]

So my router is in my living room it's fibre so I can't change the position of it (I think)

I want to wire through to my study, I knw I can just wire a cable through but I don't want there to be about a meter of wire at the end of when I wire is there anyway to make it look nice or any ideas

I've gone over power lines but as I game even the smallest of delays is still a delay to me

 

[a1ex2001]

So my router is in my living room it's fibre so I can't change the position of it (I think)

I want to wire through to my study, I knw I can just wire a cable through but I don't want there to be about a meter of wire at the end of when I wire is there anyway to make it look nice or any ideas

I've gone over power lines but as I game even the smallest of delays is still a delay to me

If you want it to look nice you have a few choices but all will involve some form of redecorating and mess making. Think chasing out channels,plastering and painting.

All other options will look naff, lots of people will say trunking is fine but in reality it is an ugly compromise.

If you power line kit works stick with it the effect on Ping is tiny test it if you don't believe me!

 

[IceShock]

Well, we only have one telephone socket that's downstairs in the dining room, and we have 3 computers upstairs and I wanted them all wired to the router, so the way Iv done it is a Cat5e (Don't get a cheap Cat5 cable, go cat5e or cat6 for future proofing especially if your going to knock plaster out and embed a cable), I got a 20 metre cat5e cable from the phone socket, ran it under the edge of the carpet down the hall (its a thick carpet you would never know its there),

Then it goes up the stairs and under the door into this room to my router, and then from the router it links all 3 computers with standard eithernet RJ45 cables. easy peasy, no knocking walls out to thread it through or replastering etc, just simply tucked under the edge of the carpet and no one would know its there.

Then my router has 3 computers connected like I said and my plasma tv also connected, and everything else like the playstation and skybox are wireless so no need to bother with cables for them.


And the reason I didn't just have my router downstairs next to the telephone socket, is because I want my equipment wired, and if my router was down there, id have to get three long RJ45 cables to connect each pc to the router and theres more of a chance you would notice three cables under a carpet apposed to one

 

[Tealc]

Ping from my pc to my raspberry pi on the other end of my power line network is less than 3ms and is stable. Its very neat and seems to work well. I'd run a cable for a long term solution though.

 

[APM]

cut it to size and crimp a new jack on the end to the length you require or finish it in a box on the wall with a face-plate.

 

[Steveocee]

A bit of excess either end isn't life threatening. You can either coil up the cable or cut it to length and crimp another end on.

I used self adhesive conduit from screwfix along my skirting boards to house the cable and you can barely even tell it's there.

Alternatively you can go outside from the router and into the study that way? More hassle though if there is an internal route.

 

[SiriusB]

And the reason I didn't just have my router downstairs next to the telephone socket, is because I want my equipment wired, and if my router was down there, id have to get three long RJ45 cables to connect each pc to the router and theres more of a chance you would notice three cables under a carpet apposed to one

You could still run a single cable and have a switch upstairs. Even a small 8 port would double your capacity.

Alternatively you can go outside from the router and into the study that way? More hassle though if there is an internal route.

I go outside with a cable from my router. Out the hallway, up the wall and into the attic where my main switch and server lives. There is a second cable that goes outside from the hallway into the front room, behind the telly for the Sky HD box.

If you already have cables outside (Sky, telephone, alarm whatever) then it probably doesn't look out of place. Though some people are funny about stuff on the front of their house!

I would recommend using outdoor rated cable. Standard CAT5 or 6 will quickly degrade outdoors.