My parents want to connect my mum's PC on the 2nd floor to the internet, which my dad uses in his office in the basement. (only socket is located there!)
They live in a standard Danish brick house from 1932 with, to my knowledge, no concrete or metal grids between the floors.
The cheapest solution will be to pull a cable between the two places, but it involves about 15 feet (4-5 meters) on the outside wall. Could a standard indoor cable be used here ?
The easiest would be a wireles router and a USB or PCI interface plugged into my mum's PC.
But can a connection reach through two floors?
At work (also an old brick building from 1898 or so) I have trouble connecting to an access point 4 rooms away.
Another on the floor above is a little closer but on the other side of the building. The later gives a little better signal, however. We are talking about one-two respectively three on a signal scale that goes to five!
They live in a standard Danish brick house from 1932 with, to my knowledge, no concrete or metal grids between the floors.
The cheapest solution will be to pull a cable between the two places, but it involves about 15 feet (4-5 meters) on the outside wall. Could a standard indoor cable be used here ?
The easiest would be a wireles router and a USB or PCI interface plugged into my mum's PC.
But can a connection reach through two floors?
At work (also an old brick building from 1898 or so) I have trouble connecting to an access point 4 rooms away.
Another on the floor above is a little closer but on the other side of the building. The later gives a little better signal, however. We are talking about one-two respectively three on a signal scale that goes to five!
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