Thanks for the advice cdev. If you could only make a quick youtube video to make it less useless, i.e a video of yourself cutting drywalls, patching them back, drilling through floor and floor joists and the house outside walls, pulling ethernet wiring through the holes, installing Rj45 outlets and stuff. That would be greatly appreciated. [emoji4]
When I was 20, the small town I lived in had just gotten affordable high speed Internet (20Mbit, in 2004) and, being the enterprising young man that I was, decided to do “whole home internet” installations for people one summer, to make extra money.
Basically, I oversaw the high speed cable internet installation, setup the modem, router and an AP, plus I ran CAT5 for hardwired Internet to rooms as needed.
Holy. Fucking. Shit. People don’t realize just how much work is involved in wiring a house properly. You have to crawl under spider infested houses, into 120 degree attics, through 2ft wide crawl spaces... Plus all the prep needed to find out where studs and existing wiring is, cutting drywall, using fish tape to pull cable through chases, not to mention old houses with original baseboard you couldn’t drill through and plaster walls you couldn’t cut into.
I made good money, but I wouldn’t do it again. I honestly don’t know how HVAC guys do it day in and day out.
Anyway, one house I did, the cable guy (a subcontractor, apparently) came out to run the coax from the pole and into the house. Apparently, this guy was afraid of spiders, so instead of running the coax under the house and drilling up through the floor, he *stapled* the coax to the front of this woman’s house. Into her vinyl siding, just below shrub level. Then he drilled a hole through the vinyl and into the wall, drilling straight through a stud. All so he wouldn’t have to crawl under the house. Needless to say he was fired and the cable company ended up having to replace the vinyl siding on the entire house, since it was 20 years old and no direct, matching replacement was available. They ended up paying me to run the cable line under the house.