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Originally Posted by kaddy
Anyone know a good installer (+price) that could run Ethernet cable to a few rooms to the unfinished basement. House was built in 2002.
Thanks!
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Just to clarify, are you looking to just do the unfinished basement, or would you like to do some "finished" rooms upstairs as well?
As Rathji mentioned, if you're just doing the basement, you should be able to do it yourself. I put a bunch of ethernet jacks in my basement as we were developing it. I was also fortunate that my house came with ethernet in every room on the main and second floor already, so I didn't have to do any fishing behind drywall.
For casual web browsing with the laptops, I use wifi. But for my Slingbox, PS3, etc. I like to have those wired in for the extra speed. As well as my main media server PC.
ANother benefit of having extra ethernet jacks throughout your house is that you can easily plug a wireless access point (basically a router in AP mode, so it doesn't route) anywhere in your home for better signal strength. Otherwise your wifi is usually originating from your main router, which is likely in the basement. My parents have a problem with this as they can't stream BBC on the second floor - the horror! It is on my list of technical issues to fix for them.
