wiring the house with eithernet cables

[remanz]

Moved into a bigger place with a few more rooms. wanted to make eithernet internet connection available for each room. The house is wired everywhere with the telephone lines and copper cable lines (TV). But once I picked a room to connect the cable modem. I am stuck in that room. Now my PS3/XBOX and other PCs in other rooms can't get "wired" Internet.

wondering how you guys approach wiring the home.

[Zzc2]

Long wires or go wireless N.
I use 1 long wire to go from upstairs to downstairs, then have a hub on each end of those to branch out from there

[Jar]

You could snake/pull the cable from the attic down to each room if you have 1, or from the basement up to each room. It took me about 4 hrs pulling wires in the home im currently at, built in 1954 has a attic. it wasnt that bad.

[thefunk]

Long wires or go wireless N.
I use 1 long wire to go from upstairs to downstairs, then have a hub on each end of those to branch out from there

I understand wireless N only works if all connections are N. If even one is only G then all connections are downgraded to G speeds.

Is that right ?

[Kicksome]

You could use powerline adapters. I have those in a few rooms. Faster than wireless - especially over long distance.

http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digita...2840032&sr=1-5

[MiRai]

You could use powerline adapters. I have those in a few rooms. Faster than wireless - especially over long distance.

http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digita...2840032&sr=1-5

I used this in the last place I lived in and it worked well. I was skeptical at first but I never experienced any
problems related directly to using that.

[remanz]

thanks guys.

I am gonna give the powerline network a try. Kinda too trouble some to fish cables in the wall and I don't have a basement to go across.
I hope the latency will be good. Bandwidths these days are all high.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Power wires are for sure way thicker (less resistence) then Cat 5 cable, and thus better .... and already in the wall .... might have some ground loop problems but I am sure they have worked that out. I guess they low pass filer out the 60/120 Hz or whatever it is power signal given that their signals are in the MHz range. Hummm nice idea.

[Cptan]

Powerline adapter method is neat and tidy. I am using it, and find it satisfactory.

Do note

1) home/electronic appliances may affect the signal integrity. e.g. during on/off, and result in lower bandwidth. Watching a live movie on SmartTV with my notebook powered on next to the adapter affects the downloading speed...

2) make sure you are running the pair of adapters on the same single phase AC line. This is normally not an issue as most of us live in a 'small' house that is not powered by 3 phase system

3) try to plug them directly onto the wall outlet, rather than on the power extension cord

Good luck

[mikekim]

Powerline adapter method is neat and tidy. I am using it, and find it satisfactory.

Do note

1) home/electronic appliances may affect the signal integrity. e.g. during on/off, and result in lower bandwidth. Watching a live movie on SmartTV with my notebook powered on next to the adapter affects the downloading speed...

2) make sure you are running the pair of adapters on the same single phase AC line. This is normally not an issue as most of us live in a 'small' house that is not powered by 3 phase system

3) try to plug them directly onto the wall outlet, rather than on the power extension cord

Good luck

I use them at home for connecting my Apple TV and Xbox to the internet using a wireless powerline (they are the older models that run at 85mbps) . it can be a bit slow on movie transfers back to my pc (i just tend to relocate the Apple TV upstairs when doing the copying)

cople of responses to the above:

#2) powerline adaptors won't run over different phases. i have prior experience with this, as in the past i have had to use them on larger houses that have different phases for different areas.

#3) you can use extension cords, but only if they don't have surge protections on them, as this conflicts with the operation of the units.