Home Wired Networking

Pulling cable simply isn't an option in many houses, particularly in Europe. It really isn't very unusual here to live in a >400 year old house. If you don't have conduits or accessible cavity spaces, it can cost thousands of dollars to pull cable. I'd have to replaster and repaint practically every room in my house. A mix of Powerline and WiFi is a far more practical proposition, even if it's occasionally unreliable.

Is running an Ethernet cable not an option?

Cool! I have the same issue with unused coax cables between every room, and was planning on replacing them with ethernet cables. In my case it's feasible without breaking down any walls. Does this work even with splitters?

My house is over 100 years old with fairly thick walls, knob and tube wiring, and a lot of neighboring 2.4Ghz access points. I ended up going under the house and running cat6, which was no small feat considering how tight the crawlspace is.Of course, the cat6 cable I used subsequently got recalled, and so the manufacturer had to pay for a contractor to rerun it. They said that it was the type of job they wouldn't have even quoted for any price originally because it was so gnarly.I hav

Dont forget about powerline-to-ethernet adapters, esp if you only have a small number of devices or dont need full gigabit bandwidth. experience varies, but if the two endpoints are on the same breaker, you can get > 100mbps, and if it has to cross breakers, you can (potentially) still get over 1mbs, which is enough for streaming and basic surfing. Much easier than running wire or messing with drywall if you're not handiman-inclined.

Just run ethernet to a neighbor?

Could powerline networking not work for this?

The newer G.hn powerline stuff is pretty great. I initially tried to run an ethernet cable from an AP in my second-floor office to the router in the basement, but it had to go through what used to be an exterior wall so it ended up being impossible (without making big holes which I wasn't willing to do). I tried Ethernet over coax but never got that to work either. Then I got a pair of G.hn adapters and they've fit the bill perfectly. Absolutely rock solid (literally had more issues wi

Powerline is your friend when you can’t lay new cables.

I decided to buy a long Ethernet wire and run it down the stairs. I trip over it sometimes,Why not use Powerline Ethernet? In most houses, it's typically fast and reliable and requires no extra wires. E.g. the data rate between my desk and router is currently 784 Mbit/s.