The hard part is getting your partner to agree to the hole. : ) ....The rest is a just short run of Cat 5 between floors, sounds like no walls involved so no boxes and wall plates in the mix, just a hole in the ceiling and floor above. You don't need an electrician for that David. I've got a linkmaster cable tester, and the RJ45 cable end crimper. You want to borrow them? I can even cut you the exact length of wire from my 1000 ft spool. I've made 100's of custom cables, it's really easy after the first 1 or 2. Let me know and you can stop by for a lesson and pick up the toys........I mean tools! ; ) I'm in Easthampton. Mark Adeptco has become: Mark Firehammer 413 303 0315 SkypeID: Compatikey Website: http://techeffective.net <http://techeffective.net/> Facebook: Profile <http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1209428263&ref=profile> Links: Free Support <http://techeffective.net/free_support.htm> Remote <http://techeffective.net/remote_support2.htm> Support _____ From: hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net [mailto:hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net] On Behalf Of 'David Morf' Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 9:41 PM To: Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net Subject: [Hidden-tech] know anyone who can pull ethernet 1 floor to home ofc& test the thruput? Need a little advice. On the 2nd floor of our home, I've got a TM402P Touchtone telephony & data modem from Comcast, and a Data-Link 524 router modem. I need to shift my home office to a better work space in the house. To do this, I need to run an Ethernet cable directly through a hole drilled between the floors (not threaded through the ancient plaster wall) from the 2nd floor to the 3rd floor, do the end clips, and then test the results for good throughput. I need hardwire linkage for best throughput, and can't move the modem and router to the 3rd floor because that would kill wireless to the 1st floor (I've been advised by my 29-year partner in life that it's a family decision that there shall be no holes drilled down into the 1st floor for network cables). Comcast said that a licensed electrician should do all the Ethernet work. Is that information correct, and does anybody have suggestions for who might do that work in the college-streets area of Holyoke? Thanks very much, David David Morf Complexity, context, pattern 136 Dartmouth Street Holyoke, MA 01040 413-536-0944 (direct) 413-426-6059 (cell) davidtoday at comcast.net Partner & Senior Regional Economics Advisor, US Adaptive Health Solutions, a CSE Program US Advantage Health Institute, a CSE Program Founding Member, Center for Semantic Excellence www.SemanticExcellence.org <http://www.semanticexcellence.org/> Blog: http://AnEconomyOfMeaning.wordpress.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.LinkedIn.com/in/DavidMorf -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20091106/de5bf798/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/png Size: 8497 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20091106/de5bf798/attachment.png