[AccessD] MIMO-G router

Actually snaking cable through wood stud walls is pretty easy if you
get the right tool. I bought a wire snake or fish tape maybe it's
called at one o the home supply stores a few years back and it really
works well.

This looks like mine.
http://www.mytoolstore.com/klein/kln21.html

Espeically if you have good access to the wall cavity at either end of
the run. You would need to cut a hole in the wall where the cable
would end up and then you could fish that fish tape through to the
other end. You might als need to drill a hole though the wood at the
top of the wall for the wire to go through. But maybe not. Then you
just go down along between the insulation and the sheetrock inside the
wall. It would help a lot to have two people so one can watch for the
end to appear in the hole or out the top of the wall depending on
which way you are going. Then you just attach the cable you are
running to the end of the fish tape and pull it through. I've used
mine to run Speaker wires, Coax for TV cable, phone wire and ethernet
at various times. It's still WORK of course and it takes some time but
once you do it you will wonder why you didn't do it before. Now if
there are block walls or brick walls or if you have to go several
floors its s bit tougher but still not impossible.

GK.

On 11/27/07, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote:
> I would love to do that but the "details" always get in the way.  My office
> is up in "the attic", in a "bonus room" kind of thing above my bedroom.
> Thus on the other side of the office wall is the rest of the attic for the
> house.  I can certainly run a cable through there.  The problem is that the
> attic gets well over 130 degrees F during the day in the summer and so no
> electronics are going to like that environment.  Thus I would have to snake
> the cable down a wall to get it into the house.  And therein lies the
> problem, I don't know how to do that.  Not to mention all the nasty
> fiberglass insulation and stuff.
>
>
> John W. Colby
> Colby Consulting
> www.ColbyConsulting.com


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