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So last year I built my Office/Stuidio/Man Cave Shed conversion and ran two schedule 40 pipes One for the 220V and another for the Cat 5 coms wire. While I did pull the electric, I only pulled the string for the coms pipe and then taped the stub off with a plastic bag, and like that it has sat for over a year.
I expected terrible WiFi more than 50 feet from the back of the house and about 90 feet from the actual router. But the wifi connection has been fine. Until last week when Comcast called my wife, and said the deal we negotiated 2 years was expired and they were going to double the price for internet. I told them to go get bent, I don't play that game, I'll find another provider then hung up. The lady called my wife back and they negotiated the original price. But since then my wifi out back has been spotty and all videos stagger and remote work and zoom meetings have been dismal.

So today, I finally broke down and tried to pull the 100ft premade cat5 network cable, but it came up short, I needed about 110' not 100'. So I pulled it back out and went to Home Depot, and bought 150' of cable, a pair of crimpers, and some RJ45 connectors. Then still ended up having to go back to buy a concrete drill bit so I could run it through to the house where the router is.

I really should have done this last year, this is much better than even my best connection with the WiFi.

On a side note, I didn't get a damn thing from our morning meeting accomplished.