Cable mess

[unbibium]

My computer desk is built. My desktop computer, sans network and mouse, is hooked up. So how am I going to run my network cable across the room?

I want to run most of my cables on the wall, as opposed to on the floor along the wall. That way, my vacuum cleaner and Roomba are not discouraged from cleaning along the walls. This is especially good for the balcony door, where my cable splitter and a bunch of messy coaxial cables used to be, just begging to trip someone on their way out. I already have the splitter and my cable modem screwed to the wall, never to hog up shelf or floor space again. My dad thinks that looks tacky, though, and says I should just get a doormat to cover them up. I'm skeptical that that'll work; I'm pretty sure it'll result in an unsightly bulge; he says he'll bring one by next weekend and we'll see how it looks.

What do you do to keep cables out of the way? Or do you even bother anymore?

Comments

[vyus.livejournal.com]

it's pretty easy to hide cables under the edge of a carpet at the wall. just try stuffing it in there. if you've gotta go over a door, tack it up and around it.

if you owned your house, a more perm solution would be to take out the floor/wall moulding, rout out a channel in the back of it, and replace it with your cables behind it, fed thru the channels.

[jecook]

Yep.

I have a run of network cable and coax running around my room from the head end in the clost to the PS/2 and the TV on the opposite corner of the room. the only place the cable shows up is where it pops out briefly because I was too stupid to run the cable around before moving the furniture in...

[sunburn.livejournal.com]

I used some cable-holders, little plastic doohickeys with a small nail in them, and drove them into the molding, but I cleared it with Mistah Landload first.

Feel like going wireless about now? Because, while I'm sure after your move and new computer you're not exactly sitting on piles of cash at the moment, you could go ahead and drop $100-$150 on wireless router and cards. It'll give you a reason to build that upsidedownternet router you've always wanted.

[pentomino.livejournal.com]

I have a wireless router. If I were to spend $150, it would probably be on the one wireless access point that you can get for a TiVo that can actually do WPA encryption. I think they all do, but only one of them does for a TiVo. And for now, my whole network is on WEP. For all I know, someone's already hacked it.

[tyderian.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure for a TiVo to use WPA you just need the Tivo-brand wireless-G adapter (assuming your router can do WPA). Unfortunately it's like $50.

[pentomino.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was the point I was trying to get across. I can only buy one brand of thing for the TiVo, and it's a bit overpriced in 2007 dollars.

cable covers

[notr.livejournal.com]

like these are good for doorways without any threshold molding you can run the cables under.

I'm still trying to figure out if I'm going to try to run cables around our new house or just buy more wireless cards.

re: new house

[notr.livejournal.com]

OK, so far for upstairs it's a cable. Still have to figure out downstairs, where there's a wall in the way. I suppose I do have a drill.