[Solved] Routing Ethernet Cable from Existing Wall Sockets to Computer Room in Apartment

Hi,

I have recently received an apartment and I will start finishing it. Unfortunately, at the stage when it was possible to submit changes, I did not think about adding an ethernet socket in the place where the computer will be located. The developer placed a place for the router in the box above the door and from there in the wall he routed the cable to the living room where there are two sockets.

I would like to run a cable from these two sockets to the room where the computer is located. I would prefer not to forge in the wall from the box in the door, just use these two sockets. I thought about drilling a hole next to them as for a socket, somehow connecting it to the patch cord going to the ready socket and under the panels or skirting board, pulling the cable into the room. Drill a second hole there and insert a normal socket in the wall. Is such a procedure possible? Maybe you have another, better idea?

grejfrut12 wrote:

pulled the cable into the living room where there are two sockets.

One cable and two sockets? It won't work like that. Each socket must have its own separate cable to a central point.

jprzedworski wrote:

grejfrut12 wrote:

pulled the cable into the living room where there are two sockets.

One cable and two sockets? It won't work like that. Each socket must have its own separate cable to a central point.

It's possible there are two. I haven't disarmed this socket yet. Anyway, from one of these sockets I wanted to somehow run a cable to the other room

_cheetah_ wrote:

1. If there are two cables going to the living room, you can:
And disconnect one of them from the socket in the living room and simply extend it to the other room, or,

i.e. "rigidly" I buy a long ethernet cable, plug it into the socket, put it under the panels or in the strip and pull it all the way to the computer? I don't think it will be very aesthetically pleasing if the cables stick out of the floor like that.

Generally, I do not need a second ethernet socket in the apartment. I connect to the TV via WIFI and that's enough. All he needs is behind a computer. I wanted to do it as neatly/aesthetically and non-invasively as possible. I also thought about:

1. Unplug the cables from one ready socket
2. Forge a box near this socket
3. Connect the disconnected cables to link
4. Buy a long patchcord, also 5e, and plug in the same plug on one end as in point 3.
5. Connect the cable prepared in points 3 and 4 in the box with a connector (barrel).
6. Run the other end of the cable from point 4 into the other room
7. Forge a second box there and buy an ethernet 5e wall socket to which I will plug the other side of the cable.
8. Plaster the box from point 3

grejfrut12 wrote:

The developer placed a place for the router in the box above the door

So the damping of the box itself, walls, distance to the TV / set-top box, and you:

grejfrut12 wrote:

I connect to the TV via WIFI

Let your assumptions not be painfully verified.
Of course, you will be able to connect an AP to a socket and take wifi to the TV from it, but you may need a switch because there will be no LAN ports in the socket, this AP must also be mounted somewhere to be effective (ceiling?), Powered somehow ...

grejfrut12 wrote:

I connect to the TV via WIFI and that's enough.

The TV usually has two connections. You can connect Smart TV functions (Youtube, VoD, etc.) via Wi-Fi. How's your TV? Providers over fiber generally use a dedicated VLAN to which the set-top box is connected. You can't connect this VLAN via Wi-Fi, it requires a separate cable - twisted pair.

I finally ran the cable under the panels and it works flawlessly