how long do you plan to be at that home/house? if you are selling this spring, wiring would probably make no sense. if you are planning to be years not months, just wire it and it would be always way better than anything else...
also, where are you getting the $2k quote from? this is not rocket science and you can definitely do all or most of it yourself... if you need assistance craigslist would give you dozens of responses in an hour for any sort of low voltage wiring gig.. draw sketches of your plans, device where network jacks are going to go , buy bulk cable + connectors (i.e. from monoprice) and just do it. once you wired it, add APs (access points) anywhere desired , either by purchasing real access points or refurbishing any old computer router device in AP mode.
It does reduce bandwidth.
The best strategy I can put forward is, take another wireless router out and play with it till you get coverage in the difficult area in your home.
Then do what it takes to run a wire out to it.
I literally have this one area that when I walk 2 feet around the corner of my house, the coverage completely drops (in fact, I've put two daisy-chained "wifi systems" next to each other and they cannot talk to each other even though they are very close to each other). I've made videos and sent them to wireless companies and they agree with my assessment that this makes no sense. It's absolutely baffling.
also, where are you getting the $2k quote from? this is not rocket science and you can definitely do all or most of it yourself... if you need assistance craigslist would give you dozens of responses in an hour for any sort of low voltage wiring gig.. draw sketches of your plans, device where network jacks are going to go , buy bulk cable + connectors (i.e. from monoprice) and just do it. once you wired it, add APs (access points) anywhere desired , either by purchasing real access points or refurbishing any old computer router device in AP mode.
My house that I plan to be at for as long as I can is 4k square feet (not all livable area, but just providing for context). There's an unfinished basement with the wiring, rooms I need to wire on the first and second floor, and then an attic. The idea is that they need to wire from the basement to the first floor and separate wires from the attic to the second floor. It's not a tiny job and this girl doesn't know how to run wires through walls to do that.
APs were in the plans already and I have them at home, but I need to wire these specific areas to get over the dry areas where nothing wireless will work -- no matter what I try.
If the basement is unfinished and is the entry point / router location then getting cables to the floor above is simple and shouldn't cost much at all. When I had an electrician out they charged about $95 per drop from an unfinished basement to the floor above. For the top floor, run the cables to the attic through a pipe stack or something that goes from the basement to the attic. In our house we have a radon pipe that goes from the basement to the attic and there's a little room on the side of the pipe as it goes from floor to floor to pass a cable.
Tami,
I think you already know the answer - if you want for this to work , you have to wire it. Wire will always be better than wireless. More recent (and purpose built) wire like CAT5e/CAT6/etc would always be better for carrying network signal than repurposing other use wire (electric for powerline, etc). No way around physics..
Everything else would happy take your money but very unlikely to be right for you..
Now how to do this in a way that is affordable - plan it, don't rush, take time to line up labor (if you want for additional assistance), and don't let anyone tell you that you can not do it yourself.
"Our house has the router on the second floor and I wasn't going too run cable to their main floor bedrooms. Too much of a pita haha."
YMMV, if spending 40 minutes to cut open drywall and drop a wire is too much pain for you, and you want to use substitute solutions, and it does work for you (over breakers ,etc which powerline had problems with), by all means go for it. There are also people that swear by wifi and declare they would never use anything else, so does it help the OP?
to the original poster, all of these anecdotes mean little - what matters is your house and your environment. and there will be no substitute to actually wiring if you want consistent performance, speed, and no f$cking around with this standard or that standard
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