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Cable that is all walled up

For any room that lacks a closet, bring the cable into the room from the chase at a corner. If the cable enters the room through the ceiling from the chase above, bring the cable down the seam of the walls that create the corner (and paint the cable to match the wall). Then run the cable along the baseboard to the computer. If the cable enters the room through the floor from the chase below, run the cable along the baseboard to the computer.

Tip Here are a couple of other schemes to consider if all your computers are on the same floor:

  • If your computers are on the second floor, run the cable across the attic floor (or crawlspace above the second floor). Then you can drop the cable down a corner to each computer.
  • If your computers are on the first floor, run the cable across the basement ceiling (or crawlspace). Then you can snake the cable up to each computer.
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In this tutorial:

  1. Installing Ethernet Cable
  2. Ready, Set, Run
  3. Ethernet cable has many aliases
  4. Concerning the concentrator
  5. Deciding Where to Put the Concentrator
  6. Concentrators are environmentally fussy
  7. Concentrators are innately powerless
  8. Distance Depends on What You Choose to Measure
  9. Handling Cable Correctly
  10. Connecting two patch cables
  11. Making your own patch cables
  12. The Chase Is On: Running the Cable
  13. Cabling within a room
  14. Cabling between adjacent rooms
  15. Cabling between nonadjacent rooms on the same floor
  16. Keeping your drill holes in the closet
  17. Cable that's all walled up
  18. Cabling between Floors
  19. Adding cable faceplates
  20. Using floor cable covers
  21. Curing Your Network's Growing Pains
  22. Don't add another router
  23. Getting into the Zone