My router is on the opposite side of the house
so if i ran a Ethernet wire it would be 50 feet long.
At my parent's house, I had to run about 75' of cable from the basement FIOS box to the upstairs FIOS router (near the bedrooms and thus most of the PCs). And THEN another 30' of cable back downstairs from that router to my bedroom on the main floor.
It's do-able, but it can be annoying.
Depend on the layout of the house and what floor it's on, a lot of people I know like to either:
- Go down one floor into the basement, run the cable along there
- Go up one floor into the attic, run the cable along there
Then either
- Pull the cable up/down using the phone wire if there's a plug nearly, and get a double-plug from Home Depot (phone + ethernet) so it all looks nice.
- Or go back up/down into the main floor into a closet or something.
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I have ran long cables too. Have you ever noticed that most companies (note: I said most, everything has an exception) use physical cables for their desktops even though they often have wifi in the building?
Yup. Better speed, better security, and more reliable.
Though, in many companies' defense... their floor construction is OFTEN easier to handle than your typical house / condo.
They have conduits under the floor-boards and/or dropped ceilings. Also their dry-wall is often fairly hollow so it's easy to snake stuff through there. Just various infrastructure stuff to make it easy to run a cord into a middle of a room for a cubicle or something without wires being visible.
But even with a house, there are (often) ways to do similar things using the attic / basement / garage / etc.