Networking / Beginners

Cabling between nonadjacent rooms on the same floor

If your computers are on the same floor but aren't in adjacent rooms, you need to do a bit more work. The most direct and efficient cabling route is a chase along your home's beams. Most houses have beams between floors that run straight through the house, either from front to back, side to side, or both. You can usually expect a clear chase from one end to the other.

The logical way to access the chase is to drill a hole in the ceiling or floor (depending on whether the chase is above or below the level you're working on).

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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