[ale] OT: Ethernet over power line

[Chris Fowler]

Ugh. Ethernet over powerline sucks! It is also a radiator. 

I just ran CAT-5e from my office on the 2nd floor to my garage on the first. 

Start from garage. 

1. Go up to exterior wall to bedroom exterior wall. 
2. Crap! I'm under the window and I can't feed it up to the other side of the stud because of the garage door! 
3. Cut sheet rock covering 4 studs that are nailed together. 
4. Use dremel construction tool to notch out those studs. 
5. Run CAT-5e in the notch and to the other side of the studs in bedroom wall. 
6. Run CAT-5e up that exterior wall to attic. 
7. Run it across attic and down exterior wall of office. 
8. Cut hold in wall for box 
9. Terminate with keystones 
10. Put computer on each end and test with iperf. I have a full gigabit to the garage. 

Google on sheetrock repair. 
Keep your cuts small. 
Buy a bag of 90 minute joint compound at home depot. That gives you plenty of time. 
Fix your cuts. Sand, and paint. 
Admire your work. 

Don't be a lamer and use Ethernet over powerline. Get this job done and you'll have confidence to do more. 
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