[Hidden-tech] know anyone who can pull ethernet 1 floor to home ofc & test the thruput?

[Joseph Steig]

some notes on this subject from LifeHacker:

http://lifehacker.com/5398668/wire-your-house-with-ethernet-cable?skyline=true&s=i
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On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 9:40 PM, David Morf <davidtoday at comcast.net> wrote:

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>  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?
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