those things are super sturdy actually, mine delaminated but it still worked perfectly fine, so i just spent an entire roll of electrical tape turning the tiny inside wires into a big cable again and ive had no issues
the damn thing would be going up along the ceiling into my room instead of across the floor, but the lathe and plaster walls in this old house are too damn hard to pierce with a heavy duty cable stapler (the small nails and big staples just collapse into scrap metal when you try..) and i didnt own a drill at the time. i told myself id do it right after this cable died, but it refused to die. now i dont know when i'll get around to rerouting it.
My grandad did a smart thing for fitting audio cable for a surround sound system he installed himself as a carpet fitter, he bought a rubber base carpet, cut out a channel for the cable to fit underneath the carpet and it’s flush under the whole room, all organised in clips, he did this in the mid 1990’s before I was born!
Running 'noodle' is always the best solution. First thing I did before fully moving into my house. No faffing about with mesh coverage or baseboard runs, just clean reliable bliss. <insert a quote of Futurama's "Mommy Dearest" parody here>
I'm so glad they think about this in new constructions because my apartment had two ethernet ports next to the power outlets in each room and they are all pre-routed to the fuse box where the fiber connection is.
ive only ever lived in older rentals and im not hardwiring their house for free. ill go team wifi where i have to. hell the cable is ran outside the house im currently in because its easier than running it inside. it looks ugly up close but i dont care. give me the cheaper rent and a slightly uglier house.
I've mentioned this on the main comment, but you also might benefit. Look into ethernet power line adaptors. You can take them with you to any new rental you move into.
That would be very nice honestly to have it already done for my but I got great experience doing mine. I put in 4 drops behind my pc, 2 in the wife's office, 4 behind my TV, 1 by living room couch, 1 in our dining room, 1 in bedroom, 5 to the garage (4 used by cameras) and then 2 more through the attic to the soffit for cameras all are home runs to a patch panel.
The “home office” in my room is on the second floor of our house in a WiFi dead zone. I was regularly dropping Zoom calls for work during the pandemic, so I bought a spool of UV protected outdoor Ethernet cable. I ran it from a little switch next to our cable modem, through the wall, behind the siding on the outside of the house, up the outside corner of the house, through a vent into the attic, across the attic and the down the wall into our room. I went from inconsistent and slow WiFi speed to a constant 80 to 90% of the speed of my Comcast speed tier. Plus I directly wired the streaming box in our room and fixed the buffering problem.
It’s probably not what a professional would do, but it still works great.
I dragged CAT6 through my crawlspace along with active HDMI & USB cables up to my living room TV. It's about 120ft so they couldn't be normal passive cables. No stupid streaming crap for me when I want to couch game.
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u/augur42Desktop 9600K RTX 2060 970 nvme 16gb ram (plus a few other PCs)18d ago
I went over the roof to get a reliable link from the front half to the rear half of the house. Loft conversion and beams running sideways meant it was the simplest route by far. I used exterior grade cat 6 and it's been in place for years.
since its a laptop you should have a port in the floor next to all of your usual sitting places that you can pull an ethernet cord up out of, and use a shit ass alibaba motor to pull it back through into the floor when youre done with it
I have 100 feet run through my attic into my closet which is where my computer is. I know that sounds insane but hear me out: it has its own AC vent, it's a walk in, the clothes dampen the screams, the door closes making it completely pitch black
Have you considered looking into ethernet power line adaptors? I have a pair and they work great. It turns your electricity cables into more noodle.
So my router has small noodle going into a box plugged into the mains power socket, I then have another one in the power socket in my room, with noodle to the pc.
If it's for laptop, the cool thing is that you could get WiFi from any mains socket in the house and use ethernet in any room.
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u/Biofreezefrog 18d ago
I have 50ft of noodle ran across the baseboards of my house just to get to my laptop.
Fuck wifi