Running Ethernet Cable through Walls?
Long story short, I want to run an ethernet cable from the living room upstairs where my cable modem and router are, to the finished basement directly below where my gaming PC is set up. Does anyone about have knowledge of these things? How much of a headache am I looking at, and should I just say screw it and pay someone to run the cable?
Running Ethernet Cable through Walls?
Do you have an interior wall in the same place above and below?
Interior is important because no insulation. Cut a small rectangle upstairs about the size and location of a 1-gang old work box. Use a 1/2? auger drill and extension to drill through the hole at a slight angle through the bottom plate of the wall.
Directly below that spot downstairs, cut another hole for a 1-gang old work box. Fish a weighted string down the wall and catch it in the basement cutout. Use that to fish your wire.
If you can do that, worst case you put a wall outlet on each hole and run patch cables to and from.
ETA: to run through duct work, get ?Plenum? rated cable.