Please help a luddite

[skinnymalinky]

@LadyArowana if you're settled on where the TV is going to be long-term, personally I'd run a wired connection from the router to the wall next to the TV and put an Ethernet socket in the wall next to the electrical socket. Probably seems like a pain especially if you've already decorated but you'll definitely thank yourself in the long run You can buy these things so you don't need any knowledge of how to wire an Ethernet socket yourself: https://www.kenable.co.uk/en/networ...et-network-uk-plate-010844-5054338108445.html - they do also have single ones but seem to be out of stock at the moment. Alternatively you can probably just feed the cable through a small hole in the floor

You can then just buy a standard Ethernet patch cable that is long enough run under the floor from your router to the back of the faceplate and plug it in - then another small cable to run from the new socket to the TV. I imagine you might need to enlist the help of an electrician but should be an easy job for them.

Issue here is that your router positioning then needs to be fairly static as well unless you want things to start getting a bit more complicated.

 

[Zebra]

I've never had a telly in this house. But I thought I would install the wiring everywhere just in case I wanted one in future, and I put an aerial in the loft while I was at it, which has sat there doing nothing ever since. Think I failed to spot the trend that telly was going to start coming in to the house through the router not through an aerial and a load of coax outlets.....

 

[Cubist]

I've never had a telly in this house.

You haven't missed much.

Couple of years back the thatcher putting a new ridge on the house for me accidentally destroyed the old aerial. The chap that came along to fix it advised installing a Satellite dish after I had explained that Fastershires plans for Fibre installation here were/are still moving a trifle slower than the typical glacier - we were told all that work would be completed in less than two years, FIVE years ago.. Setting aside the debate/negotiations on the siting of the dish all went smoothly until I found that afterward I could be entertained by about three times more dross than I could before!