Ok, need advice - how to wire Ethernet painlessly.

[SamSpade]

I have an idea - to thread of few cables through the house - which I can do a LITTLE - and put a router at the end, to get at least better bandwidth to a couple spots.

Is there a trick to lacing Ethernet cables WITHOUT ripping up the ceiling (which is sheetrock)?

 

[GURPS]

that depends on which way the floor joists go, fish through the ceiling following the joist

could you just follow the walls at the ceiling ? Pin the cable in the corner

then drill a small 1/4 hole through the floor through the ceiling

 

[SamSpade]

that depends on which way the floor joists go, fish through the ceiling following the joist

could you just follow the walls at the ceiling ? Pin the cable in the corner

then drill a small 1/4 hole through the floor through the ceiling

That is the part I can't figure and I am thinking maybe there's a trick. I have a finished ceiling and I can get above it from the utility room.
But I don't know how to take a cable and make it go thirty feet down the line. I was thinking maybe tie one end to a carpenter rule and poke it down, but it's not long enough. The second part is, ok, make a hole in the drywall - but how do I tell the cable, hey over here, drop over here?

I don't know of a trick that will let me fish it through the drywall without pulling it all off.

 

[OccamsRazor]

They make wire fishing tools to do what you want. The problem lies with what GURPS stated above. If you are fishing the wire parallel to the joists then it should be relatively easy. If its perpendicular, it will get difficult quick!

 

[SamSpade]

I just took another look - it's going to be a LOT harder the way I want. The part of the ceiling I was fishing through is LOWER than the final location - so it WILL have to go through joists. THAT isn't going to work. Nuts. I should have looked at that in the beginning.

 

[GURPS]

That is the part I can't figure and I am thinking maybe there's a trick. I have a finished ceiling and I can get above it from the utility room.

Amazon.com : fiberglass wire pull rods

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[Grumpy]

I just took another look - it's going to be a LOT harder the way I want. The part of the ceiling I was fishing through is LOWER than the final location - so it WILL have to go through joists. THAT isn't going to work. Nuts. I should have looked at that in the beginning.

Change where the cable comes into the house and have it enter near where you want to put your router.

 

[SamSpade]

Change where the cable comes into the house and have it enter near where you want to put your router.

That would probably be just as hard. My initial plan was to snake a cable right off the cable modem to either my wife's computer (across the house) OR have it attach to another router across the house and let he attach by wifi.

I think if I can find a solution my wife is comfortable with - I'm going to go with the second, but it's not going to make the entire distance. I can get pretty close - 6 or 7 feet.

 

[PeoplesElbow]

Is an upstairs wall above a downstairs wall? Flexible drill bit to make a hole down into the downstairs wall, go to basement or crawlspace then up to where you want the jack. I recently ran cat6e from my living room to all of my bedrooms. Used a wire fish and some magnets, ran about 200ft of wire in an hour.