wow. what a project. glad it's worth it. Speed it good. now you just have to hope a mouse doesnt climb between the walls and chew up the wires. With all that cable, that would be a *huge* pain.
Look for old gas lighting / servant's bell ducts. In this house they ran the first generation electric lighting cable through them (which is why the fuse box in the old kitchen was made of wood with a glass front, it was originally the box containing the little bells and indicators for the servants.)
If there are picture rails or decorative ledges they're quite good for hiding cable; I think that's where a lot of the lighting cable is on the upper floor of the flat below. I've got quite a lot of speaker cable concealed that way.
At the moment I'm still trying to decide how permanent a network I want; I have three PCs, two desktop and a laptop, but the laptop sits next to the main desktop PC and the other desktop is on the other side of this room. I've got everything on a 10/100 router (with a wireless card for use when I want to use the laptop elsewhere), and am in the throes of trying to persuade the network to talk to an old Xerox laser, which has used the fourth socket on the router.
Eventually I may decide to run cable through to the living room where I keep my home cinema gear and put the other PC there, adding a digital TV receiver card and recording onto hard disk. The other possibility is I'll use the second PC as a dedicated OCR machine, don't want to decide for now since both options would involve spending money I don't currently have on things like a sheet-feed scanner.
well the wired network now extends to three of the four half floors in the flat, so going into the living room or kitchen wouldn't be that hard and might be worth doing at some point as it'll always be better than wireless, but I want to try the power-line Ethernet out again on the same floor to see if it works better. There's very little dado or picture rail left here - most cables go under the carpet!
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So, when are you coming out again? Miss you!
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Looks like Las Vegas in March...
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If there are picture rails or decorative ledges they're quite good for hiding cable; I think that's where a lot of the lighting cable is on the upper floor of the flat below. I've got quite a lot of speaker cable concealed that way.
At the moment I'm still trying to decide how permanent a network I want; I have three PCs, two desktop and a laptop, but the laptop sits next to the main desktop PC and the other desktop is on the other side of this room. I've got everything on a 10/100 router (with a wireless card for use when I want to use the laptop elsewhere), and am in the throes of trying to persuade the network to talk to an old Xerox laser, which has used the fourth socket on the router.
Eventually I may decide to run cable through to the living room where I keep my home cinema gear and put the other PC there, adding a digital TV receiver card and recording onto hard disk. The other possibility is I'll use the second PC as a dedicated OCR machine, don't want to decide for now since both options would involve spending money I don't currently have on things like a sheet-feed scanner.
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