Passing (CAT6) cable over loft from below ?

Likely a ferret would work better but its hard to believe that any animal like that would be able to sniff the food that is outside the second hole on the other side.

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jleikppkywk
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Well now with three wifi points I get about one drop out per week.

That crsshes my NFSS layers.

Prior to that it was good to stay up for a ten minute period

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The Natural Philosopher

Works fine here. I share my wifi with my back neighbour and she listens to an internet radio station all day every day and that works fine.

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jleikppkywk

If you have some suitable cable, you might try pushing a moderate excess of wire up into the loft, the idea being that it?ll form loose open coils up there. Then use a stiff bit of wire with a hook formed on the end to ?fish? through the other hole for a bit of the loose coil. With luck ( and the right kind of wire) you might snag the coil.

I did something like this using a lot of solid cored telephone extension wiring as the ?bait? as it was stiff enough to aim in the right general direction.

Tim

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Tim+

Pretty low-end stuff then. It's when you try and throw HD video files around you realise you're at the limit more often.

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Jethro_uk

Thanks for all the tips :)

In the end, I bit the bullet, clambered up and did it in about 10 minutes. My legs are jelly now, as it's not a walk in the park - holding my weight in a precarious position as I carefully move from joist to joist.

But it's done, and for the first time in years, the machine is kicking video out at full speed.

How the NASA guys kept in touch with Pioneer and Voyager is a mystery and makes them heroes ....

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Jethro_uk

I did something similar with some light thread/string and a not-too-heavy nail attached to one end of it.

Push the nail up through one hole and, with a strong magnet below it and the ceiling, drag it across to the other hole where you can hook it back through. Tie the Cat6 onto the string and pull it through. Make sure you use string which is at least twice the length you need and tie the Cat 6 to it half way along so that you can leave the string and nail in position above the holes for next time.

You may, of course, be beaten by the direction in which the joists run.

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F

I used to listen to those from the PVR when bottling the beer and that worked fine too.

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jleikppkywk

Horses for courses. I don't do that, but I can stream video from iPlayer to an iPad at one end of the house while grandchildren are streaming Cbeebies to big HD TV at the other end, both using wifi. That doesn't seem particularly low-end to me. Sure, I would go for plenty of cabling in a modern house, but it's not so easy to engineer in old cottages. I do have a TP-Link extender.

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newshound

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