Hey, quick question, my router is in the next room. It's really close by. Can I just drill a hole in the wall and connect it from there, versus having it going underneath the house?
>>1005133
To run my Ethernet cable
>>1005133
Check with your landlord to see if it's allowed. Physically speaking, it should work fine.
If you own the house, you could fucking burn it down and no one would give a shit
>>1005133
No. It's well known that dry wall and wood causes electrofermagnetic interferettence in cables run through them. The effect is not great on telephone wires which run at low frequencies, but your video games will lag because of the high frequency signal getting slowed down.
Why the fuck did you think you had to make a new thread to ask this question?
>>1005138
>No. It's well known that dry wall and wood causes electrofermagnetic interferettence in cables run through them.
>>1005138
Yes it's perfectly possible, but you should know that by doing this there will be a hole in the wall that stretches to the other side.
>>1005147
That's fine, but I was also wondering, when I drill the wall, would there be a potential to cause a fire because of friction with the insulation that's inside the wall? From what I hear it is non-flammable usually, but I am still worried.
>>1005149
dip your entire drill in water before you drill the hole.
you know, just to be safe.
>>1005149
What is wrong with you OP?
>>1005151
Cover the wall with water too
>>1005149
>>1005151
dont forget to cover the roof structure and shingles
>>1005151
cover the garden with water too, just to be safe
>>1005149
Your biggest concern should be pipes and cables and you can buy detectors for both of these.
>>1005151
cover your mother with water too, just in case shes frolicking by
>>1005133
be careful drilling holes in the corner of walls
thats usually the place where electric cables are
hitting cables inside walls is a pain in the ass to fix
>>1005133
Get two RJ45 jack plates, and patch them together inside of the wall.
I did something similar.
>second floor
>phone jack wall plate, nobody uses home phone anymore
>replace phone jack with rj45 jack
>fish wire through where the phone cable was, into basement
>all the way across the ceiling of the unfinished basment to other side of house
>fished up into wall where there was is the coax cable wall plate for the cable internet
>replaced the wall jack with a ethernet + coax plate
So now I have a direct connection to the modem.
It didnt even cost that much money.
Zoom
>>1005149
You could probably use a hole saw to make some perfect 2" holes, and then put desk grommets in the to keep it tidy. Desk grommets are dirt cheap on Amazon.
>>1005149
Just spray the wall with a fire extinguisher before you drill
have you asked your wall how it would feel about that?
>>1005187
Serious question from not OP (who from his posts may or may not be on drugs)
How do you thread wires through walls like post related? Seems pretty fucken hard because my hand can't fit into the hole and I can't reach that far.
>>1005138
IS THAT AVE
>>1005343
In his pic he meant the plates are directly opposing each other. If you took them off you could see through to the other room. If you consider that more or less obnoxious than a cat5 sized hole is up to taste.
You get a wire fish drill which is an augur on. A really long rod with a chain to pull it to the right angle. It's an art and you could totally put a bunch of holes in the wrong place. Then you run a fish rod through the wall
>>1005343
Like I said, I was lucky enough to have good placement of the 2 plates to use.
I used the preexisting holes drilled for the phone cable, I ripped the cable out and used a cheap wire fishing tape to get it up. Shining a flash light through the top hole made it manageable.
http://www.harborfreight.com/50-ft-fish-tape-38156.html
The coax was a very short run and since the basement is unfinished I could see up into the wall where it placed and did it by hand.
>>1005348
Sounds like a bitch but at least it makes more sense then trying to thread an Ethernet cord through a house. I'm a scientist and know fuck all about these things but want to be semi-self sufficient. thanks anons for sharing your knowledge. your knowledge.
First, is much easier to make a hole in drywall than in the finished floor. If in the future the cable has to be removed, is easy to patch the drywall but good luck with hardwood.
Second, the bottom plate of the wall is minimum 3 inches, so the hole I recommend to be about 4 inches from floor and 4 inches from corner.
Third, you don't need a drill to make a hole, use something sharp and hard (like a small shitty knife) and make the hole in the drywall. Normally drywall thickness is 1/2 or 5/8". You can use a drill but don't go deeper than drywall, no reason. Use a flashlight to inspect the hole to make sure you din't hit some wood or other things. If is clear, go to the other room and make hole the same way.
Fourth, take something hard, like tie-wire or so, and carefully guide it to the other hole and tape the net cable to the guiding wire.
>>1005133
>how-run-wires-walls
>step 1: drill hole in corner of floor
>step 2: pull wire through floor of completely different house.
>>1005149
Is your name Billy? The most retarded guy I've ever met who doesn't actually have any mental disabilities is a guy named billy, and this is some shit he'd say.
>>1005343
You're welcome.
Drill a small hole into the drywall. Use something like a staightened coat hanger attached to a drill and drill thru to the other side of the wall. If you don't hit anything important, the coat hanger will just mosey on thru the 2nd drywall.
>>1005133
Do you really need too ask this question? just drill a fucking hole and pull the cable through.
>>1005138
We run Cat6 through wood, dry wall, insulation without piping when dry conditions in construction. You need to learn new info.
>>1006300
he was joshing OP
>>1006300
You're probably the guy on the crew that gets fucked with the most, and you probably have no idea why.
>>1006732
Shut up and get my wire puller from the truck.
>>1006744
Is that how your boss talks to you? Makes sense
>>1005151
Stand in a bucket of water, to be sure
>>1005343
Either a tube or a wire fish
>>1005149
You can buy plenum rated cat6 for running in wall cavities.
It's either non flammable or burns without releasing toxins. I forget which.
>>1005138
Bullshit in the real world.
>>1008525
It's okay, provided you put it in using a wall-stretcher.
>>1005133
Is it a load-bearing wall?
Use ethernet over powerlines if you are worried about the walls or wifi.
>>1006300
Well yeah, obviously you can use cat 6, it has the inductive reluctance sheilding. But cat 5 through drywall will make your internet slower than dialup.
>>1005347
Nahh, he doesn't know how to make the magic pixies chooch on the interwebs.
>>1005343
straighten a coat hanger or any piece of wire and attach cable with electrical tape.
this thread is either full of baiters or the stupidest people on earth.
>>1005138
Yeah...
I learned the hardway about Drywall bottlenecks. Had to buy a whole new printer and racing wheel.
>>1005182
>frolicking
>>1005353
Cut a hole to fit a single gang box on one side and the use a long kitchen knife to trace the outline of the hole onto the back of the drywall on the opposite wall. Then cut along the line and you'll have two back to back boxes
>>1005133
I've had mine run under the house for 3 years and its been working fine.
>>1005134
thats what i do
>>1005133
What's up with that pic?
Dude is in a different room - look at the wood grain and unpainted shoe molding.
How do you fuck up drilling a hole that badly to warrant a redo?!
>>1005133
its fine as long as you dont hit a pipe or wire while drilling. i would take up the floor board first to make sure
