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Getting cable internet into another room

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I just got a new computer and put it in a room where there's no cable thingy in the wall. Is there any reasonably easy way to do it myself (stretching a cord from another room into that room is not an option)?
 
A nice, new, expensive wireless broadband router is your friend. SMC, Linksys, and Netgear all make some fine routers.

Type in "router" in a search throughout the forums, especially Hot Deals and Networking, for more info.
 
you're opposed to the idea of drilling through floorboards and snakeing a coax cable to where you need it, then crimping on the ends? If not, you might want to give it a try. Of course, apartment or house would be useful to know.
 
House. I think I'll just call the guys from shaw in instead... and make them give me another modem too...

Thanks anyway. ^^
 
you can also just run CAT5 along the baseboards and use clips, not as nice as going thru walls but it'll get the job done and cheaply🙂
 
Originally posted by: clicknext
House. I think I'll just call the guys from shaw in instead... and make them give me another modem too...

Thanks anyway. ^^
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I doubt shaw will give you another cable modem for free... they might let you rent another one for an additional monthly fee, but you'll end up saving more money by getting a wireless router instead (which enables you to add more computers in the future)...

If you dont wanna fish a CAT5 cable to the other room, wireless is your best bet...

 
I think for an extra cable modem it's $10CND a month... but a wireless router is at least $200 which would pay for almost 2 years of renting... and would a wireless router deteriorate speed? There would also be some more latency, right? I'm planning to play some fps, and of course low ping matters a lot.
 
Not sure about pings but a regular car5 router can be had for 30-60 bucks and then you can just run cat 5.

I ran cat 5 in my basement and it was pretty cheap and the cards are cheap as well. I am looking into a wireless access point for the laptop though.
 
As opposed to the signal in cable which travels at , um, oh yea, light speed. I would think the question is bandwith more that speed.
 
Originally posted by: Jellomancer
The radio signal of a wireless system travels at light speed.
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A lot of things travel at light speed.. but that's not the issue here.
 
Originally posted by: kt
Originally posted by: Jellomancer
The radio signal of a wireless system travels at light speed.
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A lot of things travel at light speed.. but that's not the issue here.
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Uh... light travels at light speed. Radio waves do not. If that were the case, we wouldn't need optical cable running trans-Atlantic and we would have wireless routers that run at speeds faster than ethernet or firewire.

Radio wave does not travel at 186,000 miles per second.

nik
 
The Speed Of Electricity
© Copyright 1999, Jim Loy

We are told, by physicists, that electricity travels the same exact speed, through a wire, that light travels through a vacuum (the famous speed c). There are two problems with that, aren't there?

Electricity is the flow of electrons. Electrons have mass. Relativity says that things with mass cannot travel at the speed c. Only things with no mass (zero rest mass) can (and must) travel at c.
Even light cannot travel at c, when it is travelling through other substances. Light slows down, to travel through glass, water, or air. So, how can electrons travel at c, through copper?
Well, it turns out that physicists are right; electricity does travel at c. Also, electrons do not travel anywhere near c, within a wire. Electricity travels at c, while electrons do not.

Look at the picture, above left. When an electron enters one end of the wire, an electron leaves the other end of the wire. This effect takes place at the speed of light (c). But, they were not the same electron. A different electron exited the wire. And that clears up my two objections, above.
 
More about the Electromagnetic Spectrum
As it was explained in the Electromagnetic Spectrum - Level 1 of Imagine the Universe!, electromagnetic radiation can be described in terms of a stream of photons, each traveling in a wave-like pattern, moving at the speed of light and carrying some amount of energy. It was pointed out that the only difference between radio waves, visible light, and gamma-rays is the energy of the photons.
 
I don't know but the explanation isn't speed. It has got to be bandwidth related, the amount of data that the device can do per unite of time, or the amount of data it's getting in. It would be like a fat pipe and a thin pipe. If you want to get as much water out of a thin one you gotta up the rate of flow by increasing the pressure. Since in computer devices there's a limit on the voltage and the velocities are all the same, c, the only variable is the pipe width.
 
Interference; FCC regulations; error correction and retransmission times (due to greater interference); encryption; etc.

Propagation delay is a non-factor for your household LAN and wireless transmission is still unreliable over long distances *cough*Cingular*cough*.
 
Every metal cable has a velocity factor. UTP is ~66%, good coax is ~76%, excellent coax is ~84%

Fiber (at least multimode fiber) can be slower than copper.

FWIW

Scott
 
That velosict factor has got to be a resistance factor in disguise, wouldn't it, seeing as how the laws of physics are laws?
 
Originally posted by: clicknext
House. I think I'll just call the guys from shaw in instead... and make them give me another modem too...

Thanks anyway. ^^
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Even if you 'make' Shaw give you a new modem, wouldn't you still need co-ax run into the room where the modem is?

 
Originally posted by: clicknext
would a wireless router deteriorate speed? There would also be some more latency, right? I'm planning to play some fps, and of course low ping matters a lot.
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Personally, for me, pings are no higher over the internet between using a wireless router or using cat5 (i have a cable modem). For tranferring files between computers on the LAN, though, the cat5 definitely goes faster.

Mike
 
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