Damn Innernet

[Dissident]

I'm back!

(You were gone, I hear you say?)

Yes.

I bought a new house, and moved in on the 9th of June - and ADSL took a while to provision to the new address (the long weekend didn't help). Now it's back up and running I can post away. I just need to cable the house like I did my last (points in other rooms) but that is going to be hard with rake ceilings and double brick walls Any ideas ?

Moving from a main road to a dead end street is great. Mind you, I have no driveway and a poor excuse for a front lawn at the moment as the council are extending the road (there's vacant land at the end) and they are putting in a storm water catchment at the front of my house (three 15m lengths of 1.5m wide pipe) and there's no drive way.

Hope everyone is well!

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[Wedgie]

Good to have you back Diss, my suggestion re cabling in a double brick house, go wireless champ, everything can be wireless these days. Might be the easiest option.

[godoubleblues]

you are lucky it only took a few days/weeks to get your ADSL up and running
I built in the Hills, applied for ADSL in Jan 05 and got it in Aug 05, good onya Telstra
it took that long to improve the infrastructure

bloody fantastic now though

[Dissident]

Good to have you back Diss, my suggestion re cabling in a double brick house, go wireless champ, everything can be wireless these days. Might be the easiest option.

Yeah I know - though my philosophy has always been 'if it doesn't move, cable it'. I have a Wireless Access Point for my laptop to use - but the Xbox is networked and I prefer having that cabled.

[Dissident]

you are lucky it only took a few days/weeks to get your ADSL up and running
I built in the Hills, applied for ADSL in Jan 05 and got it in Aug 05, good onya Telstra
it took that long to improve the infrastructure

bloody fantastic now though

Yeah but that's the lines to your area - bit different
Moving house sucks anyway - let alone provisioning ADSL. In effect, when you move you are actually cancelling, and signing up again - you even pay another fee (because of what Telstra has to do/charge).

At least you have it now though - always makesa the pain of waiting go away

[Kahuna]

If you have a tiled roof you should be ok for getting your cables in the cavity on outside walls,kick back a tile and have a peep down the cavity with a torch it is surprising where you can go with a plumb line and/or a bit of yellow tongue.Inside walls may need a bit of thinking about,eg can you plan your network so your wallplates are on outside walls?If you must use an inside wall you may be able to carefully pull up the carpet edge and run a single cat5 between the smoothedge and the skirting board and replace the carpet to hide it.You may be able depending on the design of your house to drill through the wall into a kichen cupboard,pantry,linen press or suchlike and run your cable from there into the ceiling or into the wall cavity.Good luck with it

[smac]

If you have floorboards you can run your cables underneath. Worked a treat for me on all internal walls. External walls I did exactly what Kahuna has suggested.

[mighty_tiger_79]

Whens the house warming drink up?????????