Go ahead and pull em in the wall! Don't be scared. Worst case the world is ending anyways

When I was 15, my dad purchased me a plaster saw (still have it) and handed me his drill.

Then told me to make it look neat, but "don't fuck up because your mother will kill us both".

I ran about 4 network points through the house.

Nothing like fear to produce a 100% perfect finish 😉

For me it was like

A tale as old as time. Before Ethernet cables we were running phone extension cables through the house to connect up the modem to the only phone jack.

I had to buy carpets to hide the cable under them when running across the floor. Only exposed parts go through the doorways, and the wife complains about them. Well, I am not complaining about our craptastic wifi anymore.

I did this for every device in my house. used flat ethernet cable and just fished it under the carpets. Was significantly cheaper than trying to make wireless reach the other side of the house.

I was staying with some friends and we were all Computer users and gamers, Ethernet cables sprawled across the floor to every room in the place, and when we got tired of tripping over it, we duct taped them down to the floor where they stayed until we moved out.

I can either spend $20 on the cable or you can pay $2000 for a professional to buy it and stick it in the wall.

Worth it every time.

You could just use 2 Ethernet Over Power adaptors (not to be confused with power over ethernet).

After all, it's not as if the powerlines aren't already installed at home and connect all power plugs with all other power plugs.

This isn't even new: I've been using this solution for about a decade, back when it could do a mere 20Mb/s (which was still way faster than my Internet connection could handle back then ;))

Unless having a 500Mb/s limit on bandwith is somehow unacceptable when you could have Gigabit ethernet. Then again, why not fibre all the way ;)

Why not get a powerline adapter at that point?

Are you...are you in the walls?

I had to run a Ethernet cable from the cable modem in the master bedroom to the office security gate and switch, which then connect to all the servers, desktops, and wifi routers.

All thanks to shitty coax wiring in condos and Crapcast.

Easy I have either cable but no family, my PC is happy too :)

It's either deal with the distance with a wireless network (which can't even reach my current bedroom in my house) or deal with concrete walls that also cuts down the Wi-Fi signal in my new bedroom.

Then again, my home's network is due for an upgrade because it's 17 years old, so I just need to convince my family to upgrade to CAT6 cabling and a faster Wi-Fi router.