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How to get Wi-Fi to every corner of your house. Death to dead zones. By David Nield. Updated: October 6, 2019

How to Wire Your House With Cat-5 (or 6) for Ethernet Networking: Although wireless is simpler for a lot of people, due to multimedia sharing, bandwidth on my home network and my slight paranoia about wireless security, I really wanted to use a hard wired solution for home networking.Having a wired network allow...

If you don’t feel up to wiring the house with Cat 6 cable, there are other options. Powerline Ethernet Adapters . Use the existing powerlines in your house to pass data and the internet around the home. It’s easy to implement and works well for older homes and hard to wire areas.

If you have extra pairs available, upgrading your wiring to 1Gbps may be as simple as connecting them. That worked in our house even with 20+ year old in-wall Ethernet cables.

Residences have historically used three kinds of home wiring—phone lines (HomePNA devices), power lines, and coaxial cabling (for televisions and TV set-top boxes). The ability to plug devices together across these different cable types and create a whole-house wired home network is being developed by a group called the HomeGrid Forum.

A lot of people consider the relatively simple whole-home audio when moving out of the home theater and into the other parts of the house. After all, for the first step, you can simply string another set of speaker wires from your multizone-capable A/V receiver in your home theater to, say, remote speakers located in the dining room.

Whole-house audio systems can be routed over the same cables. ... (Photo 5) and run the cables (Photo 6). When you fish wire from the jacks, label one cable of each pair with an “in” and the other with an “out.” It’s easy to get confused once all of the lines have been run. Use colored tape around both ends ...

The wiring in your home can act as a giant antenna and pick up broadcast signals for your entertainment. First, you need the right equipment. By plugging a coaxial cable into a wall adapter, you can use your home wiring as an antenna. Then, tune your TV or radio to pick up broadcast stations.

Running new wires and physically extending your home network in existing construction is a hassle at best and a nightmare at worst. You don’t need to fish cable and tear up drywall to run new cable; you can use your home’s electrical wiring as a high speed home network. Read on as we show you how.

The author, suited up for crawling under the house to make friends with small spiders and to wire a jack on the opposite side of the living room. Before you start laying cable, take time to figure ...