Mayayana wrote:
"Jonathan N. Little" wrote

| Also for folks who live in more densely packed domiciles like apartment
| buildings where SSIDs swarm like gnats...
|

And in older buildings. After plaster and lath,
before gypsum drywall, the popular method was
mortar on metal lath, especially around WW2 era.
It's basically a concrete wall with a sheet of
embedded steel.
Brick chimneys... cast iron toilet drain pipes...
multi-floor residences.... All problems that don't
exist in a modern ranch house or open floor
plan apt.

We live on 3 stories, with
the router on the first floor in a corner office.
My machine is on the second floor. I set up a
jack for laptops in the attic room. I think 100' of
cable was either $50 or $70 at Home Depot.

That sad thing is you can pickup a 1000ft spool for the same price. A
little biy of time and effort and wire the whole house, albeit much
easier at construction than afterwards.

(HD and Lowes are much cheaper for cables and
connectors if they carry them. At Staples, Best
Buy, or a computer store they're high-tech
equipment and the mark-up on cables is crazy.
At Home Depot/Lowes they're just electrical parts.)

Online even cheaper.


Of course, wiring situations vary. And many people
don't feel capable to run wires. So it *can* get
expensive. The nice thing about old houses is there
are plenty of places to snake a wire. I went across the
unfinished cellar ceiling and up beside the sewer drain/
stink pipe to reach the attic, using 10' plastic electrical
conduit that cost about $1 each and fit into each other,
end to end.

If you have a cellar or attic routing not too hard. Sticking to inside
walls also helps.


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Take care,

Jonathan
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