Hey all! Looking to run to CAT5e in my house and preparing for what I need to do. My biggest hurdle right now is trying to see if I have a fire block and the best way to go about drilling a hole in it. With the amount of runs i’m doing to this spot I doubt I can use preexisting holes.
I bought my house about 1.5 years ago, and one of the first orders of business was running CAT5e (with a bit of CAT6 for the 10G runs). I have a finished attic and a finished basement, which made it incredibly hard to fish cables through the walls. Ultimately, I just ended up buying outdoor-rated cable and routing it all externally along my siding. No issues so far. Prior to this, I lived in a rental and had the same setup. The outdoor cable lasted for 6 years with zero issues.
Running it in the walls is certainly cleaner; just figured I’d offer an alternative.