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Disclaimer: I live in Europe, so my house's walls are made of bricks and mortar, no plasterboard to easily cut / patch up.

I have a room that is generally cooler than the rest of my home and it's also far away from my bedroom, so I setup my home lab there. Until now, I managed with WiFi, but I switched operators due to soaring prices and I got screwed since the download / upload speed on this one is kinda shitty. Hence, I want to pass LAN cables from my home lab to my home office, which would mean going through two rooms or, correspondingly, two doors. Since it's my property, I thought of cutting a couple of centimeters from the door frame and then lead the cables through a skirting board and then through the space cut up from the door frame. What do you think? Any other idea?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

If you have coaxial cable already in the house, use MoCA (Multimedia over Coax) adapters.

Something like these:

https://www.amazon.com/goCoax-Adapter-Ethernet-Bandwidth-existing/dp/B09RB1QYR9/

Will give you essentially a 2.5Gb pipe between all devices for Ethernet traffic. At the entrypoint of the COAX to your house, place a MOCA filter on the incoming coax line, and this will ensure your network traffic does not leave the house over coax lines:

https://www.amazon.com/Filter-MoCA-Cable-coaxial-networks/dp/B00KO5KHSQ