CAT5 cable running, how much?

[ZionsWrath]

Basically I want to run a hard line from my FIOS to a room. The problem is I live in a 2 story house. The main box is in the first floor in a corner. The room I want the line run to is on the second floor in basically the opposite corner. How much do you think it is going to cost to hire someone to run a line?

I don't want wireless because I play games online and have had shit results with wireless cards. Right now I am running a cable from the modem to my PC on the same floor but I want to be able to use it in my room...

HALP!?

[Fluxx]

That's a bit hard to say without knowing the length of the run, the construct of the house and a few other things. It could take 20 minutes or a couple hours depending on how things are set up.

[TemeCal]

Personally, I'd just run MOCA instead. You'll get 54Mbps, using your coax cables in your wall. I went this route, and it's very reliable and the speed is consistent. PM me if you want more info. You can buy an ActionTek MI424WR used for about $20 on eBay...which are the most popular routers used for MOCA.

This, of course, assumes you #1 don't need gigabit and #2 you have a coax outlet in the other room.

Edit: I should clarify, with MOCA, you don't need to run any cables (assuming you have coax in your walls already). Just plug the MOCA cable router into your wall, and you'll have 54Mbps consistently.

[#944_10_Series_FRS]

You can run a powerline adapter

http://www.netgear.com/home/products...XAVNB2001.aspx

[TemeCal]

Originally Posted by #944_10_Series_FRS

You can run a powerline adapter

http://www.netgear.com/home/products...XAVNB2001.aspx

Power line adapters are much slower, cost quite a bit, and have their own set of issues. The further away you are from the router (further the power lines run), you will experience significantly slower speeds. It's a good "last" alternative Cat 5/6 is your best bet, then MOCA, then power line. I gave up on power line adapters and strictly run MOCA, which is 10000x better IMHO.

[n2oinferno]

Originally Posted by TemeCal

Power line adapters are much slower, cost quite a bit, and have their own set of issues. The further away you are from the router (further the power lines run), you will experience significantly slower speeds. It's a good "last" alternative Cat 5/6 is your best bet, then MOCA, then power line. I gave up on power line adapters and strictly run MOCA, which is 10000x better IMHO.

Two story house here. All of a sudden after working fine for two and a half years my wireless drops off as soon as I go downstairs to where my entertainment cabinet is. Turns out my router died and won't broadcast 2.4Ghz beyond about 5 feet. Xbox 360 S, Wii U, and PS4 don't utilize the 5GHz frequency. :/ inSSIDer shows there are a bunch of new broacasts going on in the same area, and I'm getting terrible saturation no matter which channel I hop to.

I was interested in trying MoCA but don't have coax on the proper side of the room because the previous owners were stupid when it came to arranging a room. So after trying and exchanging several hundred dollars of routers and repeaters, rearranging the room, etc, I picked up newer version of my Netgear 3700 on clearance for 55 bucks, along with a Netgear XAVB1301 powerline kit for another 50 (so I'm not sure where powerline being expensive comes in.) I've tested reliable 40+Mb/s xmit/recv LAN connection on a 200Mb/s adapter, and TCP/IP hits about 18-20Mb down 4Mb up. Literally upstairs to downstairs, opposite sides of the house. MoCA is faster than that, but the only time I ever have an issue is an occasional hiccup in a 1080p video streamed via Plex so I can't complain.

Actually I went from the basic setup of modem into wireless router into wired devices. Now the modem goes into the new wireless router, which is hardlined to the NAS, the powerline bridge, and a third swport running to my old router which is just being used as a dumb gig-e switch now handling the desktops. Put the other powerline adapter downstairs and ran that into another gig switch, a WAP, and hardlined all of the consoles. So I'm broadcasting two SSIDs to be used upstairs and two downstairs. Awesome connection to any device, anywhere in the house.

So anyway, back to the original question. I was responsible for getting a contractor to wire up our new building at work with Cat6, and they charged about 200 bucks per drop. I'd try the powerline adapter. Like I said, I got mine for 50 bucks from Best Buy. Worst case scenario is you don't like it or it can't establish a good connection in your house, and then you can bring it back. Just make sure it's plugged directly into a standard non-GFCI outlet, and not into a power strip. If you're gaming you shouldn't have any latency issues I can think of.