I'm living in a two bedroom apartment. The cabling from the ISP enters the house in the living room and this is where my modem/router hookup is.
The problem is that I have trouble getting decent internet speeds in one of the bedrooms. I'm not sure if this is due to the router I'm using (this one) or the layout of the house, but I've decided to try to run an ethernet hookup from the living room to the bedroom. The problem is that I'm renting the apartment and my landlord wouldn't be too keen on me doing anything to the walls or floors to run the cable discretely.
The only other option I can think of is to run the cable exposed along the walls and floors. However, I need some way to protect the cable from being stepped on, chewed by the dog, etc. The section of exposed cable would probably only be around 15ft. I'm thinking about using some cord covers like these to cover the cable up. Has anyone had experience with these? How are they?
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I have used those cord covers. They are pretty easy to use and fairly stiff so they protect the cable. The adhesive they come with sticks pretty well. I'd try to keep them on the baseboards and moldings rather than the drywall so you can clean up any adhesive residue when you remove them.
I don't think they have the fittings you need for corners, angles, etc. They don't help at all if you have to cross a floor. For your application you'd be just as well tucking them in by the baseboard as suggested.
It's really unusual that you can't cover an apartment with one wireless router. It may be as simple as repositioning the router up high on the wall. I'd see if you can fix the wireless before bothering with the raceway and all.