Running RJ45 Network Cables inside walls ...and fixing Wi-Fi problems!

I've been having terrible problems with Wi-Fi in our new build house. The walls are mostly solid and the partitions all use metal studs, so it's like living in a Faraday cage. I've tried all sorts of wifi extenders but none of them have worked. I've also tried powerline ethernet but that was terrible too - probably due to multiple different ring mains. I'm giving up and installing a wired rj45 ethernet cable from the router to my computer, at the diagonally opposite corner of the house. Chasing and fishing cables is never fun but got there in the end. Did it help my internet connection problems? Too right it did!
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[@GosforthHandyman]

Excellent vid from John Ward here covering cable termination: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZnfXe6FnpKljfNk

[@Allnonym0u5]

Same speeds achieved at the other end of that cable run as with modem running at main location?

[@SolveEtCoagula93]

I love the honesty here - and have total empathy for the problems having spent many years running cables when working as a BT Engineer!

[@leovbernardo]

You were almost convincing me to do it at home until I saw the pop up "4 years later"!! Lol.. this is a freaking unpleasant job! Kudos to you for the courage

[@robertcampbell6042]

Instead of ending the cable with an RJ 45 plug uses an RJ 45 keystone in a wall plate. This will let you plug a patch cable of the correct length for any placement you choose. Changes are easy and the plug end is easily damaged. replacing a patch cable is a lot easier than re-ending the end of the wall cable and finding that it is too short.

[@NickBR57]

Good video showing all the issues I have come across in doing this. I like the idea of the large holes- never done that and it makes it so much easier to feel around. (Saw your earlier video on filling these too.) In my latest house I tried wireless solutions (mesh) like Ubiquiti but no good. In the end I got BT Whole Home and it works brilliantly on all floors once you place the discs properly (positioning software tool provided). Never thought I would use BT kit! I get 50Mbps in all rooms in the house now with no wiring.

[@georgeprout42]

I would have added another length of garden twine to the CAT5 that was pulled up. If additional cables are needed in the future then you already have a pull in place (and you can rinse and repeat)

[@stemmentor9700]

Agree I have habit of doing same as I never know what I need to run later. Save me headaches.

[@brentblack5025]

Im glad I read your comment. Thanks, and when I start drilling holes I will definitely be thinking of future runs.

[@shawnphillips1220]

You always want to leave a pull line in these trouble areas in case additional lines are needed in the future. Pull strings cheap and will save you time and the headache of doing it all over again

[@gpk6458]

Use washing line instead of twine. It's super strong and it's heavy, meaning it will drop straight down better. You can get it in 50m lengths. Drop it down, leaving most of the line at the top. Attach the cable to the top and pull both cable and line down. You can pull the washing line back up and repeat as many times as you need.

[@MarcusT86]

Great video mate. I never thought I’d see an ethernet cable so close to a bath!

[@raysmith1992]

I used to put in data connections and my office at home suffered from a similar problem so I fitted 2 sockets in my office which went to where my router is problem solved I fitted sockets into the wall and then used Cat5E patch cables. However since I have swapped to Sky Internet my Sky Q boxes have now become wireless routers due to Sky fitting a range extender box where the dead spot was. A wired connection will always be better than a wireless. Well done and if you had said at Makers Central I could have let you use some of my cable as I still have a box left 😂

[@EddyCarroll]

Lovely neat job Andy, very well explained and demonstrated as usual. Wired all the way for reliability. If you get it properly installed at the start, it very rarely goes bad. I’ve done a ton of these over the years for friends & family and you still gave me a couple of new ideas. I’d definitely have run a second cable for future proofing - splitters will drop your speed back to 100 mbps which might be okay for the Internet but is terrible for network drives. Plus you can use the second cable as a HDMI extender (with suitable encoders) which is often handy!

[@GosforthHandyman]

Cheers Eddy! Yeah, splitter performance can be quite varied depending on cable length and interference etc. Worst case I'd just add a switch. 👍👊

[@JohnKing-lw2sb]

Used the same technique in our house but fortunately we had an ensuite shower which had a box behind it that I could physically get into from the loft and then managed to poke the cable down next to the soil stack through to another box in the cupboard below which was in the lounge where the router was. I didn't drill a big hole like you did, I just drilled a small whole in the bottom of the box and fed a cable upwards that I could then use the soil stack access hatch to get my arm in and grab onto. Worked a treat.

[@Jaymanwong]

Watching the video of you feeding the cable through all these floors certainly make a lot of your fans said “ wish I was there to give you a hand “

[@GosforthHandyman]

Cheers - yeah, there was a lot of running around by myself! 👍😀

[@Bill.L.Carroll]

Tedious job, that one, however, it's now done! 👌 Good job, man. 👍

[@GosforthHandyman]

Cheers Bill! 👍👊

[@robinwheatley7789]

Nice tidy job Andy. Also like the Floyd album cover artwork!

[@kroozer5215]

Had the same issues, in the end i fed the CAT5 through the outside wall from one side of the house up the wall to the roof and across the loft, back outside on opposite house down the wall and into the room with the problems your having - I purchased one of those cheap kits off Amazon - did my own research on the wiring and fitting the plugs on the end of the CAT5, tested them all out on the cheap kit and it ll was good - got great internet now in a room we could not ever get in before.

[@winchy1995]

Was great watching this didn't think about the box section I will keep that in mind for the future. I could have done with knowing this in my last house. I now live in a bungalow so running cables to my room was so easy just going in the loft and dropping it into this room.

[@marclee-smith4386]

Loved this - thanks for sharing. Will be attempting this soon myself - some great tips!! Thanks!

[@thetruth5210]

That moment you want to be able help someone, but you are an ocean away... Great job with tools you had on hand though!

[@David-xu3yk]

I was waiting for the cable to run out downstairs as you pulled it through the last part Haha.

[@GosforthHandyman]

Ha ha! To be fair I didn't check how much was left in the box! 😂

[@johnfithian-franks8276]

Hi Andy, I was trying to use a dongle to connect but had the same problems as you had, went down the shed and found my old kit out and ran a cable from downstairs front room to upstairs back bedroom, (I only have a two-story house thankfully) and now enjoy my downloads without frustration.

[@Jules_Pew]

This is mega useful as I might have to do this when I move into my new house soon. I think it's wired up for TV, so might be able to use those cables or cable runs. Made it to Newcastle finally, so I might bump into you one day.

[@ajsnr1]

used to work installing networks in the army in mainly old buildings one tip I used to do was attach one of those small laser pointers to the fish wire so it was easier to locate in dark attics or crawl spaces

[@leesmart1971]

No boxing in my house to chase cables down so I went outside... External grade Cat5e (black) clipped every 600mm and 90° turns, with internal RJ45 sockets in surface-mounted boxes. One run from office at rear of house to lounge at the front. Second round to the garage on the opposite side of the house where I keep my NAS. Gigabit switch in the office links it all together. Previous owner ran so many cables on the outside that once I'd stripped them all off, my pair of cables didn't look half bad.

[@tomthumb2062]

Come on Andy, split screen with you feeding the wire and the other screen with the hole waiting for the wire would have really pushed this video to the dizzy heights it deserves. Or a wide shot of said hole waiting for the wire to come through and then you see the wire coming out through the bath plug hole or better still the toilet 🚽😀. Thanks for sharing mate 👏👏👍

[@MrWilsonGeek]

Great video fella it's good to see. always best to be hard wired. so may problems with WiFi , channel settings and EMI you will never get a great signal 👊

[@GregTMann]

A suggestion if you need more connections in the future would be a switch in the loft connected to the router downstairs then you only need run the connections from the loft to the top floor. If you have a gigabit switch and router you’ll be fine for sharing the single cable for internet access, which was around 30meg from the test you ran. You could also put a wireless AP in the loft to help your WiFi coverage for mobile devices.

[@RaceJan]

Concrete walls and floors made me go wired too, port switched gigabit ethernet throughout in the house. Nothing beats the speed and stability of wired LAN. For mobile internet access I use both my router and a remote repeater (depending on where I am at the time). Works like a charm :-)

[@GosforthHandyman]

I can now use my PC as an access point for the top floor too (when it's switched on) - works pretty well! Better than the normal wi-fi anyway. 👍😂

[@pkokkinis]

Crimp by hand...I love it!

[@stevenprince9907]

I really like your videos. I can and have learned so much off you. If i could go back in time (and l will not say how many years) id love to be your apprentice

[@videocity2508]

Thank you so much for this video it helped me do the same job as your self, Hughe thanks.

[@clarkfinlay78]

good job Andy shows it just takes time and lots of patiences, I think I would have conected each end to rj45 faceplate rather than using the crimping tool (or the lazy route and use a mesh wifi but wired will always be better for stablity)

[@MrChannelchannelchan]

Could always switch to that later and put a switch on one end.

[@Vintagesoundz14]

Tool-less RJ45 plugs are also very good i have used these as have never crimped the plugs myself and only ever conencted into the sockets & patch panels. you just line the wires up ntop of their terminals and then close down the lid on the plug which has built in blades to crimp the wires into the plug, they are a built bulkier than the normal plugs but very quick and easy to install. I installed a cctv system an dvr on our house and had to run all cables extenral and with minimal amount of cable on show as my mum hates seeing wires. The dvr is sat in the loft, it needed a wired network conenction to be able to acces the cameras on our phones, and does not have wifi built into the dvr or the option for a wifi dongle either. I ran a black external grade cat 5 cable up the outside of the house from the BT socket where the router is up into the loft through the soffit, this was cable tied to the BT phone cable and then also next to this cable where it went into the soffit is where i installed one of the cctv cameras so only a short amount of cable was on show, also did the same front and back for 2 more cameras so they were out of site and impossible for people to reach and damage them. Where the cable came into the bt socket I just cut out a bit of the socket back box for the cable to come through behind the socket front plate and terminated both ends with tool-less RJ45 plugs, i then also put a small switch in the loft and repurposed the trunking in the back bedroom that was for the old storage heater wiring to run a cat 5 cable from the switch in the loft to my bedroom as well as also run coax cables for the tv's meening i could do away with the rubish indoor aerials we had in the bedrooms. then in my bedroom bought a secondary acces point that is basically just a glorified router to run all my AV equpiment on wired networking and have wifi for all my wireless devices. So glad i did it all.

[@JerGoes]

I recently bought a house, during the 1st fix I also fitted cat5e cables to each of the bedrooms, instead of terminating the ethernet cables with RJ45s I opted for face plates with sockets and patch cables for each device. (those cheap tester kits do what you need them to do, there is no rocket science here, either the pins are wired correctly or they are not, spending a fortune on a Fluke kit isn't necessary for domestic use).

[@gfc62]

Another useful tool for pulling cable is a long section of beaded / ball chain (like on an old lamp but larger beads and longer, about 20’) A long #10 or #13 ball chain has enough weight to drop down a wall without snagging on insulation and does a great job of deflecting around small obstacles.

[@GosforthHandyman]

Yup - they're great too! 👍

[@raychambers3646]

Mr Gosforth one little tip I've used in the past is put short piece of chain on end of string ,this can act as a weight and be used in conjunction with telescopic magnet,might be useful to you.

[@christophershenton5917]

Very helpful. This job is now on my to do list :)

[@Bari_Khan_CEng_CMarEng]

I been so fortunate with my 900 Up and Down! I love it!

[@emptech]

People in the alarm business have been fishing wires through walls, etc for many years. They have developed many tools for doing this. Electricians are beginning to learn from alarm people how to route wires. It's funny how people have to re-invent the wheel. Way before we had those electronic inspection cameras, we had small periscopes that could look into a wall to find fire blocks, guide drill bits, etc. Jim

[@RYANMAKO]

Would have loved to see the part where you add the RJ45 heads to the cable. Thanks for sharing.

[@mikepeacock8385]

Did exactly this at my nephew's house at the weekend! Problem we had was no box section so had to fiddle the fish tape through the dot & dab gap which was variable to say the least. The sparky must have cursed the d&d idiots at second fix as we found backboxes protruding right through the skim coat and the gap between skim coat and sockets had been caulked! Got it working but the walls looked like white Swiss cheese by the time we finished pulling the cable. Wifi is ok, but sometimes you can't beat a nice bit of copper :)

[@GosforthHandyman]

Dot & dab can be great for hiding cables - but yeah sometimes you'll hit blockages in really weird places. Nice work! 👍

[@MrLamrod174]

my first thought is to go from the loft to the ground. Use gravity and some cable rods. Rods are flexible and have some weight to help them fall in a straight line, join some together to have around the height of a floor, then you always know that you should be able to access on each floor of your house should the thing get stuck!

[@frankslittleworkshop]

Nicely done Andy 👍. Another good video. You really really need to treat yourself to an endoscope... cheap as chips from Amazon (about £15), just plug it in to your phone.... it will save you hours of poking in the dark. I use my one for running wires in vehicles... go on.. treat yourself. Keep up the good work 😁

[@GosforthHandyman]

I've got one somewhere! 👍

[@cjhification]

Mine was a fiver from Ali

[@jakematic]

If we didn't have phones and tablets, I wouldn't even have WhyFi in the house I despise it that much. Just last autumn I ran 6 pairs of 40m fibre to a central switch. Is only 1Gbps now but the fibre can handle 10Gbps down the road. Was having massive ground current issues with all 8 switches - everything is rock solid now !

[@GosforthHandyman]

Sorted - wow! 10Gbps! That is properly future proofed! Awesome work! 👍👊

[@taylo256]

House builders take note install network cables during build. Keep up with technology. I know some do but should be standard these days, in only pennies in scheme of things.

[@GosforthHandyman]

Yup - totally agree. I'd have paid extra for it but not even an option. I've seen some smaller builders offer it. 👍

[@Pistol_Knight]

They only need to add a 2" plastic pipe in the boxing in for cable drops

[@taylo256]

Gosforth Handyman I know of some builders who do provide generally smaller ones. Just needs to become the norm.

[@raychambers3646]

They could just leave scrap cable for you to tie on to. Suprised no fire stopping between floors.

[@GosforthHandyman]

The plasterboard itself is the fire barrier. 👍

[@Rosscoff2000]

I always pull more twine through with the cable to ease any worries about the cable coming away from the pulling twine. It also means you have something in place to pull a future cable. Did you need the big holes at the bottom of the boxes? Could you have used just the ones at the tops?

[@wbcsneo]

Good little video fella, wifi is an artform for that sort of distance and would need a repeater/extender, homeplugs are always a pain over multi levels due to each ring mains level, you're lucky you have that ducting system, I'm currently trying to figure out how to get a hard wire, but I don't have any easy way LOL, although my homeplug system is working, I'd like to get the full speed from my internet into my office. Ideally for wifi to work in that location would be centre room to send wifi in every direction equally.

[@harryrandlesthethreelionsw5591]

Thanks Andy enjoyed the video and have liked. my workshop is at the end of my garden not connected to the main house any advise on running cable to my shop for wifi connection Many thanks

[@apsilonblue]

Nice job, running cable is always fun. Only thing is, never run 1 cable when you can run 4+. The cable doesn't cost much compared to the time you spend doing it. Even if you don't need them now you could've left a coil of cable at each floor and another in the attic etc long enough to reach any room on that floor and it's most of the job done for next time you want another point somewhere.

[@GosforthHandyman]

Would have been a lot of extra work and guarantee I'll never need more than this one. 👍

[@JL-rx6hl]

yeah surprised he only ran one

[@fotogfitzfoto412]

I learned long ago that when drawing a cable you can be well-served by tying on another draw cord. And a tip for getting a draw cord from one end of a conduit to the other ... tie one end to a plastic bag, stuff the bag into the conduit and blow it through using an air compressor. Needs about 1" (2.5mm) free clearance in the conduit.

[@GosforthHandyman]

Indeed! In industrial applications blown fibre is very common, where fibre optics are literally blown down ducting. 👍

[@fotogfitzfoto412]

Not to be confused with blown fibre (mineral wool) insulation ... which has greater connectivity issues and significantly higher latency than WiFi.

[@pigsheadpigshead4190]

Great video really enjoyed it 👍

[@GosforthHandyman]

Cheers bud! 👍

[@JurBols477]

In my house I can see 20+ wifi networks... 100% chance that one the neighbors decides to run it on MY channel! Oh well... a €20,- for reasonable krimp pliers and €17,50 for a cable tester (its a must!) did the job. Ones you get the hang of it... its a lot of fun making patch-cables. Running 4K tv/youtube only goes through old fashioned copper wire.

[@GosforthHandyman]

Yup - once you get started on crimping the ends on you can get quite fast at it. 👍😀

[@littlechestnutorchard]

My favorite guiding tool is 16x25 or 16x16 PVC Trunking lid, it never failed me once last 25 years, very flexible and if you know how to wriggle it goes every nook and crannies.

[@GosforthHandyman]

Yup - absolutely. Been there! 👍👍👍

[@TheBigChilli]

When I did this, I just went outside and mailed to the brick. Super easy. There was already a telephone and TV aerial cable so added to the lines!

[@GosforthHandyman]

Good plan! 👍

[@stephenguk]

I don't think that standard CatX installation cable has suitable UV protection for outdoor use. It may disintegrate over time - mind you with the UK climate...

[@GosforthHandyman]

Yup - you'd defo need exterior grade cable.

[@gvanvoor]

Gosforth Handyman or put it inside a pvc pipe

[@TheBigChilli]

@@stephenguk yes indeed, I read somewhere some 5-10years. I only needed it to last 5 max. However, simply painting it increases the UV protection many many times over.

[@DevinHeaps]

If you’re going to this much trouble and going that much distance, then you should just go for 10gig multimodal fiber. Then you’ll never worry about speed or capacity in the future. There’s plenty of online suppliers that sell common lengths cheap with the ends already attached. Also, one tip is to always run your cables with a spare string line attached to them, in case you decide you want to run more in the future.

[@dhampson545]

The tolerances of the drywall remind me of the fire safety rules here in America (for commercial buildings). Metal studs are rarely used in residences here too.

[@johnshepherd5673]

Great video ty. Did you consider running the cable externally ?

[@ourv9603]

GOOD JOB! However, I think you did it the hard way. They sell outdoor Ethernet cable. On my house I punched a hole to the outside at the router ran the cable around the outside of the building then I punched another hole into the house where the service was needed. DONE. !

[@Chickey]

Thanks for the video, which fish tape product did you use? Just mounted my projector and looking to run a power cable to it. Oh and on that subject thankyou for opening my eyes to the setting tool, ashamed to say I'm 42 and didn't know it existed, always thought those plaster plugs were crap but i wasn't using them right. Cheers from a fellow Geordie up in Ashington.

[@mrj4264]

I wish you showed how you fixed the holes. Love the video!

[@patchfile]

This is what I wanted to see as well.

[@formlessval]

same here, I want to start a business running cables in peoples home since I already have some experience due to my previous job but I want to be ready for all types of situations

[@craigjaco8096]

I cut wall outlet size access holes and cover with a blank plate. That way later on you can get back in there to add or maintain.

[@mistermartin82]

I would always use a network outlet at each end, much less wear and tear on a hand crimped connection

[@Vandan9166]

Great video, thank you. Funny comment “four years later“.

[@tabletsam9505]

Just wanted to add. I saw the other day a wall socket for that ethernet cable, where you can just attach the wires to the terminals, mount it on the wall and run a ready cable from the shop to the end user

[@michaelord8084]

Good video Perhaps consider run external grade cable out and ran externally up the side of the house next time.

[@jonnys1007]

Any reason why you didn't use external network cable and run it mostly on the outside of the building?

[@stalbanstech7396]

Hi Andy, did you consider using a Powerline adapter, works every time for me.

[@Teguvas]

Out of context for this video, A few weeks ago you showed an new dust extraction system. I also have yet to fit my chinese cyclone gadget together but can't seem to find any decent fixings to go on to ist 53/54mm conections. Are you fixing to the inside 50mm bore or have you found a decent connector from somewhere?

[@GosforthHandyman]

Haven't decided yet! Axminster do quite a range of different adaptors including flexible ones and ones you can cut to size so I'm hoping I can find what I need from there. Good luck! 👍

[@rickfletcher8389]

I lived in Chile in an apartment and the concrete structural shear walls had a lot of rebar to withstand the earthquakes (8.8 Richter while I was living there 😱). Could never get the wifi in the back bedroom behind the concrete wall!!

[@mtmt6226]

hi Gosforth, how much you recommand this should cost by an telecom installer does it for you in UK? i m facing the same problem as you, which router is on the GF, and my PC is on 2nd floor. thanks

[@michaelord8084]

Heat shrink is handy for joining the cable 'nose to nose' with whatever your using to pull poke , means you only need a cable sized hole.

[@mylearningaccount1]

My soil stacks are at the back of the house, my router and office at the front. All my walls are dot and dab, how do I get from the ground floor to the first floor without going out the house and back in again?

[@sparkybrian8512]

Awesome vid, the company I work for does commercial network installs, wouldn't have done any different, maybe faceplate termination but you don't really need it for what your doing. nice job Andy.

[@GosforthHandyman]

Cheers bud! 👍👊

[@billconiston8091]

Great video, surprised you only ran one cable given the hassle it was to get it there! An AP at the top of the house might help your wi-fi issues for other devices too

[@GosforthHandyman]

Will never need more than the one but can always add a switch. 👍

[@dast_uk]

For the speed you have, I would of gone Powerline adaptors. I use them in my 3 story on each floor (set of 3), had the rare blip where I needed to power cycle the one at the router/switch end but other than that they have been rock solid.

[@jasons5704]

I have a 2 floor townhouse with a 300mbps package. I was getting 5mbps on the second floor with the Comcast modem/router combo. I switched to a mesh system. On a good day I’ll get 200-230 mbps upstairs now. On a bad day when there is some kind of interference. I’ll only see 120-150 upstairs. At least it’s better than it was

[@lukekeegan3285]

Had the bloke in the attic been drinking out of that bottle you found?

[@itzmeagain8011]

That's cool - now you can use the trick you showed us for how to fill those holes!

[@GosforthHandyman]

If only I had a video for that? 🤔😂👍

[@andy1027]

Job well done mate fair play. But for all the effort you are putting in I would have opted for cat6 cabling to be honest

[@charlesarnold4963]

That was excellent. I had the same issues some years ago. The kids complained bitterly about drop outs which disconnected their chats. I ran Ethernet cables round the outside of the house. Did you consider this and if so why reject it in favour of the more difficult internal routing? The kids have left home now so it is no longer an issue!

[@GosforthHandyman]

No easy route outside - plus I'd have to have bought different u/v resistant cable. Massive difference though! 👍😀

[@ericturnipseed8664]

Nice job... it would have been a good idea to run two cables since you looks like you had the cable to do it and a "pull wire" of excess cable for a future pull if needed.

[@Paul-XCIV2]

A great and cheap (~£20 off eBay) investment is a camera on the end of a USB cable, you just plug it into a laptop, they also come with a light on the end. This was invaluable for solving what was going on with a sink waste that was not emptying (the pipe was bowed in the middle).

[@GosforthHandyman]

Yeah they're great! 👍

[@peterskidmore8222]

This is where your wife asks how long will it take? and you say, "Shouldn't take long", and it takes all day.

[@stemmentor9700]

🤣. My wife knows if will take me 3 days to avoid any other honey do stuff

[@andreassylvan3478]

Just one day? =)

[@gcmarcal]

You had good builders! underneath my bath and showers is full of crap!

[@greaser5691]

Interesting. Does the UK allow unlicensed cablers to install fixed telecommunications wiring? in Australia, it is illegal to install any fixed cabling that could be potentially be connected to public networks. A consumer can run all the speakers and antenna cables that they want, but as soon as it is an infrastructure cable (i.e. inside a wall or ceiling space) that can potentially be used for a fixed line phone or internet (even where no public network connectivity is actually installed), communications authority licensing is required.

[@GosforthHandyman]

Thankfully no such restrictions in the UK! Even for commercial installers AFAIK. 👍

[@hansdegroot8549]

"Dad, what the hell are you doing?" - "Í'm fishing, son". - You what??? I'm fishing a cable for the internet, "OK, I understand. Can I help?" "No, thanks for offering. It's biting already." Great video. Thanks for sharing.

[@GosforthHandyman]

Cheers bud! He did help me for the loft part! So he did some fishing too. 😂👍

[@alanadams5620]

2 things. 1, I can't believe you didn't have to drill through the floors. Surprised your pathway was open the whole way. 2, Do you have Glow Rods. They're sturdy, you can direct them and they bend. Good vid, tho.

[@strandloper]

I need to do this. The router is in my study right by my computer so that's fine; phones and iPads are all fine over wi-fi but the smart TV doesn't always do well over wi-fi. Nothing worse than it losing the plot 😉 halfway through a movie or show. Luckily I'm in a single-storey home so it's a simple matter of taking cable up from the study, through the ceiling and down into the lounge. A bit of a hassle as my South African home doesn't have a nice loft space like UK ones, so need to crawl over rafters and not put a foot through the thin ceiling board.

[@CharlesLScofieldJr]

I think it might have been a good thing to pull twice the amount of polytwine down from the third floor down to the first floor. That way you could attach your network cable at the half way point. Tie off the twine on the first floor, then from the third floor pull the twine and cable up to the third floor. On the third floor make sure you have enough slack of the twine so you can tie it off. That way you can leave the twine in place in case in the future you want to pull a second line to the third or one to the second floor. Rather than patching the round holes with plaster it might be better to get some keystone plates to cover the holes with, they make them with as many as six keystone plugs. But one with four would probably be about right to cover the round hole. Most of the keystone plates have removable keystone plugs that you only remove the ones you plan to use.

[@MrTomo89]

how did you fill the big holes back in the room does the cut out disk fit back in

[@MrTomo89]

just seen your follo up vid nice

[@bertsimpsan]

How did you repair the extra holes you put in the walls?

[@johnavery15]

Did you leave the string/twine in for any future work? I would have run 2 Cat 5 cables just to future proof the install because you may need a connection in another another room. Great video though - like your presentation style.

[@GosforthHandyman]

No - considered it but I'd have to open the wall up anyway as you couldn't pull a cable all the way from the top to bottom as it was too tight. Cheers bud! 👍👊

[@suicidaljell]

Cat5 more like 6a

[@peterhope9486]

Hi Andy I would have pulled a nylon fish along with the ethernet cable so that you have the ability to pull through secondary cables should you need them, after all you done the hard yards.

[@GosforthHandyman]

Yeah, considered it but the pulls between floors would still require holes in the walls as it would be too tight to pull from top to bottom. If I changed things I'd probably put a switch in the loft and drop down in to each room from there, but fine for now. 👍

[@dylan7108]

Just renovated and put an extension on my house, the whole house had a rewire so took the opportunity to run 20 Ethernet cables from every room up to a switch in the loft, couldn’t rely on WiFi 🤧

[@hotdog4698]

Paid some guy $200 to do this. I do not regret my decision lol. I watched your video and others. I fought with myself. As a journeyman electrician I figure I could have done it myself but man what a pain in the ass

[@Jseals14]

what website/program did you use to map your house?

[@adamhutton4165]

Bad Luck Brian had a similar video. The difference is when he was finished he realized his mom had bought him Cat3 cable. At least his land line was clear!

[@oddball_the_blue]

I did have a powerline system in the house (it came with from the previous owners for their CCTV system) but the issue I had was noise on the mains wiring. Modern amps/computer/tv's didn't have an issue but I've got a collection of vintage HiFi bits (everyones got to have a hobby) and you could constantly hear the thing going. Ethernet was dropped down into the basement via the side of a cupboard in the kitchen in the end which meant I could move other networking gear into the basement as well. My issue now is that I still don't have ethernet in the rest of the house - especially my study. Wifi works well enough for the most part until I'm moving files to the basement servers and then It's alot slower than an ethernet connection. My plan is to remove an old 12 core phone line from the outside of the house and replace it with proper outdoor rated Cat 6 but I need bigger ladders first as it's on the first floor of a tall Victorian house.

[@4TheRecord]

14:38 This is how I always fit the connectors, works every time.

[@Apex180]

Would have been tempted to run two cables and terminate them in punch down face plates, cables do go bad over time. Did you consider going external ? i've had to do that a few times when there is no chance of them letting you dril / lift internally.

[@GosforthHandyman]

Didn't really need 2 and could use a splitter if needs be but yes, defo run as many as you can be bothered to run! 😀👍 No easy external route so this was the easiest option.

[@Apex180]

@@GosforthHandyman Fairy snuff, internal can be a nightmare when you carn't lift anything; get in early on a new build and its bliss, thoese are the days compared to old homes that have 2ft thick solid walls and no crawl spaces.

[@ujbd3409]

Great job! Sorry it's only 35! Hopefully its more now!

[@sburge1989]

Your wife is going to be so pissed when she gets home to find all the holes you made in the walls and you upstairs watching youtube

[@stoobydeux]

That explains the dead guy in the loft at 2:10 :-o

[@illmitchjax]

Fibre optic camera is great for stuff like this and not that expensive