I’ve run out through air bricks for non destructive installs before, burried just under the surface next to external walls, up behind drain pipes etc. and even inside drain pipes when the status of a building required no external cables. Inside soffits is always an interesting one as you never know what you’ll find, even inside guttering when access was impossible due to neighbours, just remember external rated cable is required for long term use outside unless it’s in conduit. Sometimes it’s easier than you think, just not always the most obvious route. One things for sure, gigabit over ethernet gives 110MB/s+ all day long and 2.5Gb will do roughly 235MB/s, heck with the cheap mixed media switches now with 4-5 x 2.5Gb and 1-2x10Gb SFP+, it’s a lot cheaper to go faster than it used to be. Just remember whatever is sending and receiving needs to be able to read and write data quickly enough and enough CPU. SMB (windows file sharing) may need tweaking to get the best out of it, later versions included a multithreaded option iirc. and my numbers are based on linux.
Awesome I will definitely look into doing this.
Thanks
Do you have Coax going to the rooms you need to connect? If so, look in to the various MOCA devices available. I am using a couple of these and they’re surprisingly good. They basically just run your net traffic over existing coax cables. Very similar to the powerline adapters you can get but these are a heck of a lot faster. The MOCA 2.5 boxes can theoretically run up to 2.5Gb.
I already had an aerial booster amp in the loft which feeds pretty much every room. By plugging one MOCA box in to that, then this now acts as a network switch. So, I then just need to put a MOCA box at each end point I want to connect. I only have one connection at the mo - from my lounge up to the loft - but I am getting 1Gb on that connection which is limited by the switch in the loft. Latency is very low too. Deffo worth looking into.
Cheers.
Keeop