help what's the best way to get cable to another room

[holden j caufield]

Hi currently my cable wire runs to the living room, it provide tv and internet to my ddwrt router. I want to run a good a game server and host some sites for my friends, so I don't want the extra latency from running a wifi bridge. Plus the microwave sometimes makes my wifi bridge go funky.

How do I run the wire between 2 rooms without making it look ugly?

 

[Phoenix86]

Do you plan on putting holes in the wall/ceiling?

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Are you willing to go through the wall? If not, you're looking at getting a length of cable and trying to make it as inconspicuous as possible, probably by taking it up to the ceiling and around into the next room. The only way you'll make it look "not ugly" is going through the wall, and you'll need to know where the electric wiring is in there so you can avoid interference.

 

[Exterous]

Are the two rooms close together? If there is carpet there is usually space to hide a cable tucked underneath the bottom of the baseboard and the cable is almost always hidden by the carpet. It can help to pull up the edge of the carpet. If its hardwood there is sometimes a gap behind the baseboard where the drywall doesn't go all the way to the floor that can fit a coax cable

Do you own or rent? If you own there are always wall cavities

 

[BurnItDwn]

Are the two rooms close together? If there is carpet there is usually space to hide a cable tucked underneath the bottom of the baseboard and the cable is almost always hidden by the carpet. It can help to pull up the edge of the carpet. If its hardwood there is sometimes a gap behind the baseboard where the drywall doesn't go all the way to the floor that can fit a coax cable

Do you own or rent? If you own there are always wall cavities

Another option is if you own and you are on a crawl or basement foundation, you can always go through the floor and then run the cables between the floor joists ....

 

[Phoenix86]

The proper way to do it would be to run a patch cable from the router to:

http://www.amazon.com/Dual-Ethernet-...5910352&sr=8-6

I'd get at least a dual plate so you can run a second line later if you want.

Then, you run your cable from that, up the wall, across the attic, and down the wall into your room (I'm vastly simplifying this) to one of these:

http://www.amazon.com/Single-Port-Ca...5910306&sr=8-2

Then a patch cable from that to your computer.

The cheaper/easier way is to run a single cable from the router to your room and pin it against the floor/wall/ceiling.

It shouldn't matter but the total line length for either method is 330'.