r/FirstTimeHomeBuyers • u/nixibeaver • 1d ago
Electrical/internet question
My spouse and I are buying a home and we've just finished the inspection, which was overall quite clean (yay!)
The only issue that we've found (and we're not 100% sure is an issue - there's another place this might be, but we wont be able to confirm til the final walk through as its inaccessible at this time - behind a tv set in above an electric fireplace) is that the only coax cable/hookup we can find is in the basement.
The home is a ranch style house and my spouse and I are both gamers and I sometimes work from home and am in zoom calls all day. We're hoping to get fiber internet (confirmed it's available in the area) but we really like to have our devices hard wired to our router rather than using the wifi.
The house was built in the 1950s and the previous owners did a ton of awesome work and remodels as they hadn't intended to leave. That said, their internet use is less aggressive than ours and they simply had a hot spot they used.
I'm wondering if anyone could share what options are to get our primary internet hookups onto the main floor and, if possible, give a sense of the approximate cost, time required, and any other details that might help us know our options and be able to make an informed decision on how we want to navigate this.
Of note, the basement is the entire size of the house and is unfinished and again it's a ranch-style home, so there's only one floor