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I now have gig internet at home but cannot realise its full potential because I dont have ethernet run through the house.
The house is quite large and l-shaped with the internet connection terminating on one side of the house, and my office being on the other. It is a modern house, approx 10 years old so drywall throughout.
I am therefore considering running ethernet cable into the loft, placing a switch and then running other ethernet drops into the rooms I want wired ethernet. However, I have no grasp on how big an undertaking this would be!
Looking on youtube etc it appears relatively straightforward but most of the videos are american and I dont know if UK houses are significantly different in construction.
I have run AV wires behind drywall plenty of times before but only within a single room, so this is a much bigger undertaking.
How difficult is this likely to be?
Does the cavity run continuously from attic to ground or will there be floorboards etc within?
Do I simply need a cable fish, drywall saw and stud finder?
I already have the fastest powerline adapters available and they sync at >1Gb but only provide 350Mb of usable bandwidth. Mesh wifi isnt reliable enough without an ethernet backbone and I have a NAS array that I want to locate in the attic so I dont hear it.
Thanks for any suggestions.
The house is quite large and l-shaped with the internet connection terminating on one side of the house, and my office being on the other. It is a modern house, approx 10 years old so drywall throughout.
I am therefore considering running ethernet cable into the loft, placing a switch and then running other ethernet drops into the rooms I want wired ethernet. However, I have no grasp on how big an undertaking this would be!
Looking on youtube etc it appears relatively straightforward but most of the videos are american and I dont know if UK houses are significantly different in construction.
I have run AV wires behind drywall plenty of times before but only within a single room, so this is a much bigger undertaking.
How difficult is this likely to be?
Does the cavity run continuously from attic to ground or will there be floorboards etc within?
Do I simply need a cable fish, drywall saw and stud finder?
I already have the fastest powerline adapters available and they sync at >1Gb but only provide 350Mb of usable bandwidth. Mesh wifi isnt reliable enough without an ethernet backbone and I have a NAS array that I want to locate in the attic so I dont hear it.
Thanks for any suggestions.