Internet withdrawal

I don't have access outside the house, but I am thinking about having the contractor put a small hole into the living room floor just large enough to fish the cable alongside the fireplace upstairs.

My wife would lose her Cat 5 connection in the upstairs den but she would still be able to use WiFi on the other end of the house.

Personally I think we can live without TV for the duration of the project.

As I noted in the other post I think we are using styrofoam that will fit between the furring strips instead of putting in regular studs with fiberglass insulation.

You can do internet through FIOS with coax or the CAT5 connection, but Verizon will need to turn the coax part on if currently using CAT5 connection instead. Just get one coax coming in a hole, split and send one cable to the modem, one to a wall plug. Might need a split at the wall plug if there's a TV already on it and you have coax to other TV's in house. On the other split where the modem is, you can run a patch piece of CAT5 between one of it's ports to any CAT5 plug on the wall and all computers using such plugs in rooms will then have access through that one modem port without problem.

In short, split coax to modem and TV wall plug. One ethernet cable from a modem port to a wall port. You are ready to go. At my house to simply I just have it coax through out, both TV and Internet.

Verizon FIOS has two or 3 boxes on the house, inside or out. One opens to reveal the ports you can use. You can string a 50' (or longer cable if needed) through a window at one corner, then lock the window down. Most windows have enough leeway to allow that.

The phone company sends everything to the house via fiber, and there's a box on the outside wall that splits the various signals. Coax for cable and some sort of twisted pair for Internet enter through the wall at the box but the phone stuff runs outside to the same place it has always come in. I was surprised they put in fiber out here in the sticks, but the telephone co-op is trying to stay on top of the new technology.

I don't know how to access the cable and Internet ports from outside.

I'm hoping we can work out something with the contractor so there is minimal disruption of the Internet but I don't care that much about the TV signal except to the extent that it keeps the wife happy. She watches way more than I do.

If we can't figure out anything else I'll use my wife's laptop's air card to get wireless Internet and then share that connection. We don't download much so I don't think the data requirements will be huge. However, it won't be as fast as the fiber data connection I'm used to.

I've always thought it was peculiar that we get OK reception with her wireless Internet even though we don't have a usable signal for cell service. The frequencies aren't the same, but I'm pretty sure they use the same towers for both.

for regular PCs. I'm thinking of doing that one day. Already using a wireless printer for all computers.

I don't think FIOS will ever make it into our bit of the sticks.

The contractor said it looks like styrofoam. I think it's 3/4" solid sheets that will fit between the furring strips that are already in place.

My understanding is that it is not quite as good as high quality fiberglass but it will be MUCH less expensive since it won't require reframing everything.