Aye, but you can’t get the ready made cables (with plugs) through the minuscule hole through the aforementioned wall (which already has Sky, telephone and broadband cables going through it) and I’m not making another one 
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piece of piss with a shaped charge 
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This. But I would reiterate that using a mesh wi-fi system gives much better results than two separate networks.
Agree but £150+ just to avoid changing networks seemed a tad pricey given the comment about minimal WiFi through the house
That’s not two separate networks, it’s still one.
Pay a rodent to do it ?
More helpfully, perhaps, you could avoid a special crimping tool by buying a cable, snipping it in two, poking one end through the hole then splicing the cut ends back together again. There are videos on Youtube, I imagine. This guide seems to cover most of the points How to Repair a Cut Cat5e Ethernet Cable: 13 Steps (with Pictures). You’d need cutters, wirestrippers, a soldering iron and a heat gun.
The tips at the end suggest staggering the cuts in the inner wires so all the joints don’t lie alongside one another (as he hasn’t done in the pics). Not only does this avoid a lump in the final cable but if the insulation around each joint does start to fail then at least they won’t come into contact with one another.
Probably the most important tip is to remember to slide each bit of heatshrink onto the wire/cable before you start soldering. This is especially important for the outer one, of course.
If it turns out that there is a screening foil wrapped around the bundle of wires then, with care, it’s possible to unpeel enough of this and cut the inner wires shorter so when the wires are re-joined you can overlap the two cut foils and restore the screening.
All this is a bit of a faff. But what else is there to do on the long winter nights ? Oh, hang on …
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Can you go up, through the loft?
No
The edge of a window frame?
That is what I did.
He’s got a hole. It’s just a bit small for a full size plug
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On a nice 7 mile SE Dartmoor circuit from Shipley Bridge up the east side of the Avon Dam reservoir then uphill and back along the old Zeal Tor tramway.
The dam:
Huntingdon Cross (marker on the Abbots’ Way)
Nice clapper bridge for the crossing
Who is hiding in here then?
tramway marker (? 3/4 of distance?)
and, of course, the ponies
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So you’ll have seen the mysterious Redlake and the Eastern White Barrow?
Indeed. Here’s Petre’s cross on the Eastern White Barrow.
Didn’t get a pic of Redlake mound but I suspect that these might have been clay settling troughs up there
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Yes I must try & get a bit further up next time. It does feel remote out there. Were there many other walkers?
A few on the low route by the reservoir but only one couple up high, and they were going a different way. It was a nice day, but would be pretty wild and exposed in winter. I’d like to get further into the moor some day.
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I expect I have one you can have. I’ve a few and have forgotten which is which 
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Might be able to get away without the crimping tool. Anyone used these?
I have these.
If anyone can identify the Ethernet crimp I can send it to you before Tuesday when we go away.
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None of them AFAIK they look like this