I was hoping someone could help me find the best way to network 2 computers in my townhome. My previous home had an unfinished basement so runing the cabling was not a problem. Now that I live in a townhome, I'm not sure how to run the wires. The two rooms are directly across from each other in the hall with a bathroom in between them. I was thinking of running the cable under the carpet but I don't want to creat a bump and I'm unsure about cutting the carpet. Can anyone help me out?
2006-11-28 21:15:36 · 4 answers · asked by Roy M 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
Depends how fussy you are. Take a cat 5 cable and run it across. Use the corners between ceiling or floor and walls. A cable in a corner won't be very obvious and for ethernet you can run 100m lengths without problems.
If you really want to hide it you can lift up the carpet edge and put the cable underneath round the edges. You might have an underlay layer, which has a small gap before the wall starts. You can cut the underlay if not. Just run the cable down the gap and put the carpet back on top. The underlay is generally 5mm or so thick so you won't notice the bump and you are only cutting something you can't see.
2006-11-29 00:40:42 · answer #1 · answered by max_lan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Either use homeplug networking or buy a USB 4 port adapter, remove one of the USB devices from the laptop, plug in the adapter into the vacant slot and your USB device into the adapter, you will still have 3 vacant USB ports for a Wifi adapter HTH David
2016-05-23 01:25:02 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you should go in for a wireless connection
2006-11-28 21:25:36 · answer #3 · answered by Raza 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
use ethernet cables
2006-11-28 21:35:55 · answer #4 · answered by mane 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋