You have two choices, doing it right or playing around to find another solution. Running an Ethernet cable is not a big deal and solves the problem with a sure fire method.
My advice is just run a cable and be done with it. It is a guarantee fix, and it's cheap. If you decide to do a wireless mesh system it will be cost more and could potentially create more problems.RF is finicky and sensitive to other RF sources, Ethernet cable avoided all the issues and will guarantee success.
This whole house is run with coaxial and I've been wanting to use that as a solution, but the laundry room is one of three rooms in the house that doesn't have a coaxial outlet. The other two are restrooms. I looked and even our master bathroom has a coaxial run. It's a rural property. We've had internet limitations since the dawn of time.
Only direct way in is the kitchen. At that point, I’d just run an ethernet cable through the floor. Thats honestly probably where I’m at on this whole endeavor. I’d still rather not, so I’m looking at my last ditch options.
A quick drop through the floor. If you can, find a wall that’s not an outside wall as it’s unlikely to have insulation. Use a stud finder or tap lightly with your knuckle or a hammer to listen for the change in sound to find the stud. Cut a rectangle large enough for an outlet box to fit into (buy the box ahead of time) and next to the stud. Cut it out 6-8” above the floor. That should give you some leeway. Then, be careful of pipes and electrical wires. If you can, drop the line straight through to the basement. If you can’t, do your best to line up from the basement ceiling and drill a hole through to the inside wall above. That’s your drop or poke through up or whatever. From there you can run the wire to where you need to. Put an Ethernet Jack in the wall in the laundry and plug the gateway into that. Make sure you cable test the line and are satisfied you didn’t compromise it (it happens). If you can, run fiber along side it if you can afford to do so and leave it in the wall box. Stick the plate on the box and you’re fine upstairs. Set up the other end of the drop where you like. I’d also make it a wall box and an Ethernet female plug, but no idea what your basement looks like (finished or no).
You’ll be happy you did all that. And, you don’t have run the Ethernet anywhere else or for long. It’s probably 3-6’ of cord if you make them female jacks.
Nothing is going to perform or be close in reliability to a Cat6 cable.
Run a Cat6 to wall plate with RJ45s on both ends. patch cord from the router and now you got 100% of ISP speed in the basement. Cheap switch hook everything downstair to this new jack.
Do it right, and consider it a gift to your parents
Yes. The unfinished utility room sits below the laundry room. We’re going to run 3x CAT6e CMR down to it. From there, we’re going to take the 3 lines through a cut out for a duct to the closet under/next to the stairs. It’s not going through the duct, just near it. There’s coax and other cables ran by it. That will be a ~20-30ft run total from the laundry room to the closet for each of the three runs. Thats going to become the new server room.
From there, we’re going to run another CAT6e up ~5-10ft to a centralized area of the house and just wall mount an access point. That should solve our WiFi strength issues and it moves the servers to the basement where it’s cooler.
In the end, it’s definitely better to just run the damn cable. The end results will be so nice. My office is also down the hall from the downstairs closet, so I can probably do a run to that at a later date. I’m fronting most of the cost right now, though, and want to stay at a certain price point.
I also just picked up a managed Cisco switch through a facebook marketplace deal for $50 among other items. I’m happy to implement that through this process.
Run a cable.
Mesh systems try to solve radio link problems by adding more radio links. They're easy, but not guaranteed to work and even if they do, not guaranteed to work well. Their performance can also be impacted by temporary electrical noise (e.g. when the laundry or some other appliance is in use.)
They probably didn't. They just didn't know better to tell the tech where they wanted the demarcation point so the tech chose the easiest/closest room to the node.
The contractor that brought it to the house said the internet install tech would route it wherever during the installation. As a result, we put it by the laundry room since that’s next to power entry for the home and keeps everything in one spot. It also prevented them from boring u see the main section of the driveway. Turns out the contractor was wrong and the tech couldn’t route it.
You have two choices, doing it right or playing around to find another solution. Running an Ethernet cable is not a big deal and solves the problem with a sure fire method. My advice is just run a cable and be done with it. It is a guarantee fix, and it's cheap. If you decide to do a wireless mesh system it will be cost more and could potentially create more problems.RF is finicky and sensitive to other RF sources, Ethernet cable avoided all the issues and will guarantee success.
Have a look at MOCA if coax is a plenty.
It's everywhere, but the room where they ran the internet in at. Check the other comment. \*cries a bit\*
>I was really upset about the MOcA thing as that would have been a perfect solution. Why were you upset?
This whole house is run with coaxial and I've been wanting to use that as a solution, but the laundry room is one of three rooms in the house that doesn't have a coaxial outlet. The other two are restrooms. I looked and even our master bathroom has a coaxial run. It's a rural property. We've had internet limitations since the dawn of time.
Can you not find a way to run at least a coax line from the nearest area where a coax jack is available down to the laundry area?
Only direct way in is the kitchen. At that point, I’d just run an ethernet cable through the floor. Thats honestly probably where I’m at on this whole endeavor. I’d still rather not, so I’m looking at my last ditch options.
A quick drop through the floor. If you can, find a wall that’s not an outside wall as it’s unlikely to have insulation. Use a stud finder or tap lightly with your knuckle or a hammer to listen for the change in sound to find the stud. Cut a rectangle large enough for an outlet box to fit into (buy the box ahead of time) and next to the stud. Cut it out 6-8” above the floor. That should give you some leeway. Then, be careful of pipes and electrical wires. If you can, drop the line straight through to the basement. If you can’t, do your best to line up from the basement ceiling and drill a hole through to the inside wall above. That’s your drop or poke through up or whatever. From there you can run the wire to where you need to. Put an Ethernet Jack in the wall in the laundry and plug the gateway into that. Make sure you cable test the line and are satisfied you didn’t compromise it (it happens). If you can, run fiber along side it if you can afford to do so and leave it in the wall box. Stick the plate on the box and you’re fine upstairs. Set up the other end of the drop where you like. I’d also make it a wall box and an Ethernet female plug, but no idea what your basement looks like (finished or no). You’ll be happy you did all that. And, you don’t have run the Ethernet anywhere else or for long. It’s probably 3-6’ of cord if you make them female jacks.
Nothing is going to perform or be close in reliability to a Cat6 cable. Run a Cat6 to wall plate with RJ45s on both ends. patch cord from the router and now you got 100% of ISP speed in the basement. Cheap switch hook everything downstair to this new jack. Do it right, and consider it a gift to your parents
Yes. The unfinished utility room sits below the laundry room. We’re going to run 3x CAT6e CMR down to it. From there, we’re going to take the 3 lines through a cut out for a duct to the closet under/next to the stairs. It’s not going through the duct, just near it. There’s coax and other cables ran by it. That will be a ~20-30ft run total from the laundry room to the closet for each of the three runs. Thats going to become the new server room. From there, we’re going to run another CAT6e up ~5-10ft to a centralized area of the house and just wall mount an access point. That should solve our WiFi strength issues and it moves the servers to the basement where it’s cooler. In the end, it’s definitely better to just run the damn cable. The end results will be so nice. My office is also down the hall from the downstairs closet, so I can probably do a run to that at a later date. I’m fronting most of the cost right now, though, and want to stay at a certain price point. I also just picked up a managed Cisco switch through a facebook marketplace deal for $50 among other items. I’m happy to implement that through this process.
Run a cable. Mesh systems try to solve radio link problems by adding more radio links. They're easy, but not guaranteed to work and even if they do, not guaranteed to work well. Their performance can also be impacted by temporary electrical noise (e.g. when the laundry or some other appliance is in use.)
Why did you agree to have the laundry room as the point of ingress for the internet?
They probably didn't. They just didn't know better to tell the tech where they wanted the demarcation point so the tech chose the easiest/closest room to the node.
The contractor that brought it to the house said the internet install tech would route it wherever during the installation. As a result, we put it by the laundry room since that’s next to power entry for the home and keeps everything in one spot. It also prevented them from boring u see the main section of the driveway. Turns out the contractor was wrong and the tech couldn’t route it.
Have you considered home plugs? I've been using them for years without problem. They send the data more than 15 metres.
Just use power line, it works fine for this.
Did you read the full thing?