wouldn't a wifi "repeater" or signal extender be the best solution here? Regards, Tom Adams (from iPhone) (413) 575-9707 Director, Editor, Videographer• www.reelifeproductions.com High quality photography prints & products• www.Folktographybytom.com Portal• web.me.com/reelifeproductions On Nov 5, 2009, at 9:40 PM, "'David Morf'" <davidtoday at comcast.net> wrote: > ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's > area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > 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-Lin > k 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 di > rectly through a hole drilled between the floors (not threaded throu > gh 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 ne > ed hardwire linkage for best throughput, and can’t move the modem an > d router to the 3rd floor because that would kill wireless to the 1s > t 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 int > o the 1st floor for network cables). Comcast said that a licensed e > lectrician should do all the Ethernet work. Is that information cor > rect, and does anybody have suggestions for who might do that work i > n 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 > > Blog: http://AnEconomyOfMeaning.wordpress.com/ > > LinkedIn: http://www.LinkedIn.com/in/DavidMorf > > > > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion > list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20091106/58f4d886/attachment.html