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Well my mom just got a free, brand-new 4-port Ethernet Broadband Router (D-Link) from her work because the program she uses to connect to her work from home shuts down our firewall. Anyways, our computer is upstairs, but my PS2 is downstair and across the house. Would it be feasable to drill a hole in the floor, run a cable through the ceiling and down a wall in the basement to get to my PS2?
 
I'm not sure about running it through the wall but I drilled straight through the ceiling and stapled it to the corner. It also helped that my cable was white so it wasn't too noticeable
 
Hmmm, the way I think it'd work after examining where the drill points would be is that I could drill straight down and that would take me to the utility room, which is unfinished. Then I could staple it to the ceiling there because no one cares about what it looks like and run it into our main basement room. In the main room we have replacable ceiling tiles, so getting it out of the ceiling would be easy, but I'm not sure how I should get it down the wall to where my PS2 is.
 
Put it down the corner of the room and cover it, or down by a door frame and along the skirting board.

If you are drilling through your floor, try and check for wires and pipes first. Though you may have problems threading it through depending on the thickness of your floors/ceilings.
 
Find a phone jack near your PS2 and one near your router, take off the faceplate and run CAT 5 from the PC to the PS2 through the walls. No drilling required. You can get new faceplates and jacks to make it look proffesional. In your phone jack faceplate (once it is done) it will have a slot for the phone, and a slot for ethernet. It looks better than drilling holes everywhere. Plus, you can use the connection for other things
 
There's many other options as well. Netgear offers an adapter that plug into the electrical socket, and brings the signal to another adapter, right through the electrical sockets. The only downside is you need 2 of them, and they're pretty costly :(
 
wireless ethernet bridges are very expensive. They usually cost more than the router
 

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