Hey everyone!
Looking for advice, so, I’ll keep this short.
I want to run an ethernet cable from my living room (from the router) to the bedroom directly above. Unfortunately drilling holes in the walls isn’t an option as It is a rented house.
I currently use home plugs which work okay, but I don’t get the speeds I need.
Is it feasable to cut an ethernet cable sized hole in a wall outlet, and run the ethernet cable to the outlet directly above, in which I would also cut a cable sized hole for it to fit through? It seems like it would be straight forward, but I don’t want to get electrocuted haha. And I’m aware their will be a much better way to do this.
Any advice?
Thanks
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There are outlets for this.
Do you rent the whole house or are the landlords also living there? If you occupy the whole space you may want to look into Moca, you get the Ethernet from your router the adapter changes the signal to coax, you feed it back into the wall and you have another adapter where you the Ethernet (the bedroom). You do need coax outlets in both places and you may need specific moca splitters and it may not work well if you’re also using the coax for satellite but it’s been great for me (we gave up coax tv a while ago so all the coax cables throughout the house are used to convert internet to Ethernet on the other side of the house and the spare bedroom. It’s worked very reliably). I ask if you rent the whole house because if you feed your internet into the house coax, your landlord could also potentially pick up that signal through the coax on their side.
Do you have an old router kicking around? If you do, it’s possible it may be reconfigured: Asus calls it a Media Bridge, where it becomes a wired switch with a wireless connection to a router. I did this for an old laptop whose wifi card died, and the user is thrilled with the speeds being ~3x what they were. No holes or fishing cable through walls required.
Talk to your landlord he might give you the ok to add a wire up to the room
Thanks for all the suggestions.
Do you think there is any chance an ethernet cable could become live by being next to electrical wiring? I’m assuming it’s all insulated right?
Talk to your landlord. If my tenant came to me with this, I’d absolutely say ok providing I had veto power over the contractor and ultimate say over the design of the network(ie where the patch panel for the drops are). Adding Ethernet connectivity to a house in 2023 imho adds value.
you can run the wires beside each other it’s not going to make any difference for you. but it’s not always a direct shot from on plug to another…not usually anyway. Joist supports ,floor supports, insulation and lord knows what else could get in the way. if you say you don’t want to get electrocuted, then you are probably guaranteed to zap yourself