I am sick of hanging cat5 and telephone wires hanging out my basement window and or running over my head in my basement or on the floor. The obvious choice would be to go wireless but with our house being formed concrete and the basement ground floor not only seperated by a steel plate, concrete is poured over that plate (not sure how thick) but I can barely get a cell signal down stairs. So... I am not sure if I want to shell out for a high powered router and network adapters.
I do have a wireless router, a G and it sits downstairs. Our laptop CAN get on it as can my netbook, they are slow, my netbook is painfully slow.
So as it is set up right now, I have 50' cable going to the router and modem in a spare bedroom and another 50' of phone cord going from the router as well as 50' ethernet cable going upstairs since the phone jack don't work in the spare bedroom and so my sister upstairs can have internet. Another shorter cable is connecting my PS3 and Wii to the router in the downstairs spare bedroom. My service is through comcast.
I have noticed the PS3 (both of them) have trouble downlaoding wirelessly so I am not sure if its the router or what so we wired them.
Problem is? I got cables running out side and in side and they are getting on my nerves. I want to runt he wires up the wall and into the celing to get rid of some of them downstairs... the issue? The forced air heater ducting I would have to run the cat5 over. I am assuming this is against code?
The cables that are running outside I think I can tuck into the wall and drop from upstairs to downstairs, provided I can find the hole where the old phone wires went in.
Sorry, long winded I know so here is the question:
Running cat5 over the heating / ventilation ducting (plenum?) against code?
I do have a wireless router, a G and it sits downstairs. Our laptop CAN get on it as can my netbook, they are slow, my netbook is painfully slow.
So as it is set up right now, I have 50' cable going to the router and modem in a spare bedroom and another 50' of phone cord going from the router as well as 50' ethernet cable going upstairs since the phone jack don't work in the spare bedroom and so my sister upstairs can have internet. Another shorter cable is connecting my PS3 and Wii to the router in the downstairs spare bedroom. My service is through comcast.
I have noticed the PS3 (both of them) have trouble downlaoding wirelessly so I am not sure if its the router or what so we wired them.
Problem is? I got cables running out side and in side and they are getting on my nerves. I want to runt he wires up the wall and into the celing to get rid of some of them downstairs... the issue? The forced air heater ducting I would have to run the cat5 over. I am assuming this is against code?
The cables that are running outside I think I can tuck into the wall and drop from upstairs to downstairs, provided I can find the hole where the old phone wires went in.
Sorry, long winded I know so here is the question:
Running cat5 over the heating / ventilation ducting (plenum?) against code?