Just another thought for ya... If it is a single story house and you can get under the house, then what I did was simply drill a small hole through the chipboard floor (just big enough for the Cat5 cable to get through), at the very edge of the carpet, right next to the skirting board. A small hole in the floor at the edge of the carpet line is invisible to anyone making a visual inspection (unless you get the carpet caught in the electric drill and rip a huge chunk of wool out... try to avoid this!). Then, if you don't want to screw Cat-5 outlets to your skirting board, just crimp the RJ45 plugs directly onto the leads that come up from under the floor so you can plug the leads straight into your RJ45 device. When you move, just cut the plug off one end of each lead and pull them back through, the little holes are left hidden by the carpet. PS: Going under the house also saves getting your lungs full of glass fibre. Greg
-----Original Message----- Anyway, this is how a real pro (yep, that's me!) would do it: you get your Cat-5 ready and then, get into the ceiling! Brilliant eh? Tends to work the best on old vullahs, where you can crawl around, breathing in the remnants of some extremely hirsute sheep (or glass wool), and drop the cable through the ventilation shafts or the holes for the chandeliers-wotsits. Honest, it looks really neat and tidy -- much nicer than sticky tape all over the place. Watch out you don't put a foot wrong though, and step through the ceiling. Lots of cable-laying novices perish every year that way.
-- Juha
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