running ethernet wiring thru walls

[wpshooter]

I have several computers downstairs and I want to put another one upstairs (No, I do NOT want to use wireless).

Does anyone know how I would go about getting an ethernet cable into the upstairs wall and then FINDING it somehow (after I would attempt to snake it down thru the wall) and to get it to come out of a fairly small hole in the downstairs wall ? What tools would I need to do this ?

Is this something that I should try myself or is this something that only a professional with the correct tools should try ?

Thanks.

 

[montag451]

Easiest way is a straight line where you cant get to it....
Trace the wire along the floor around the sides of the room/halls.
If you don't want to drill, then lay it all the way to where you want it to go - otherwise,
Get a pipe/stud detector, drill and pop the wire from the floor upstairs, to the ceiling downstairs.
There is no magic
There is no easy way - except get someone else to do it.

 

[Wik]

what kind of material is the wall? What kind of ceiling downstairs? There would be several ways to go about this, depending on your situation.

For example, if the wall upstairs is just a simple interior drywall, and the basement was a unfinished downsairs with open ceiling, I would cut a hole next to a stud for my wall plate, then drill down from there with a long bit at about 3/8"

 

[Nirach]

Get a Powerdrill and a masonry drill bit, and some polyfiller. Lay it under the carpet at the edges and drill the aopropriate walls. Check there are no water pipes, cables and so on, and you should be a shoe in. If you don't want to drill. Cable cleets, a hammer a long piece of cat five, a crimping tool and a few RJ45 plugs.