On Dec 22, 2009, at 9:30 PM, Scott Jones wrote: > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Dave Smith <[email protected]> > wrote: >> I know this is somewhat off topic, but then again, what isn't on >> Plug? >> >> I live in a 3-story house with all three floors finished. The house >> is >> about 5 years old. Some of the rooms have cat-5 wiring, but others >> don't. One such room is the office on the middle story, where I want >> to run some cat-5 (there are so many Wi-Fi networks in the vicinity >> that my bandwidth stinks). I have cat-5 in the attic, which >> originated >> in the basement, that runs to other rooms on the same floor. So my >> question: Is it possible to run a cable into a room on the middle >> floor without totally trashing the drywall? I just don't see it, and >> my Google fu has apparently waned. > > Dave: > > The question is really one of access, i.e., whether you have regions > where you can pass the wire between studs or joists. The termination > in the wall is no problem with those blind boxes that you can anchor > wherever needed. > > I saw the guys on This Old House using a wacky REALLY LONG drill one > day to bore access holes through wall framing footers to run plumbing. > I think you could accomplish the same thing and just pass your wiring > through such a hole, > > I have one room in my basement which was never correctly or adequately > wired for power or ethernet. My difficulty is the lack of access via > the ceiling and walls, so I know this is a challenge but it's not > impossible.
Good questions. The room of interest has a finished bedroom above it, with no cat-5, and a finished basement room below it, with no cat-5. I can get cat-5 in the attic, but that's two floors up, and I reckon it would be pretty easy to drop cable into the upstairs room, but then getting it down another floor would be tricky, since there's a sub-floor, right? The odd thing is that I'm sure there *used* to be cat-5 in the room of interest, but I think it got removed when the previous owners knocked out a wall in the room to make another door. --Dave /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
