Remember those curly telephone cords that stretched out to like 40ft when your mom walked around the house while on the phone and you had to dodge the cord like Catherine Zeta-Jones in Entrapment? And then the cord shrunk back to like 8ft when she hung the phone back on the cradle on the wall. And the next time your mom hung up the phone, the cord was like 10ft long with a bunch of kinks and twists. And the next time she hung the cord was like 12ft long and starting to bunch on the floor. And eventually there was like 30ft of telephone cord on the floor under the cradle that just gets kicked out of the way into the nearest corner and collects dust bunnies until the next time the phone rings and your mom answers and walks all around the house like she always does. (I could keep going but I don't know where it will end.) Remember those curly telephone cords?

You need a curly ethernet cord like that for your watch. It could help to get around.

Also, what model watch do you have that has an ethernet port? My watch works fine but my gf is always complaining about a rock solid connection so I'm thinking about getting a new one.

Run it down the hall and throw a runner rug over it!

you can get extra wide duct tape and make a channel in the corner of your ceiling and wall to run lots of cables as well

You have an exam about why my neighbor’s WiFi connection is better than my own?

Honestly, just don't settle for the shitty router that your service came with, get that damn thing out from behind the TV or wherever it shouldn't be, get it up close to the ceiling somehow, and you'll probably never want to use a fishtape even if you can.

Mesh networks are probably the solution for apartment dwellers. The routers all act as one router but are separate smaller routers that talk to each other so you can put them all around the house, and you just need to plug them into power. No mods to the apartment are required, it's all wireless. The catch is expense, but if you buy once, and cry once, then it becomes like a piece of nice furniture that moves with you.

But again, one $40 modern router that isn't the shitty combo unit from the ISP, keep it up high and unblocked, get enough extra Cat cable to reach where you put it, and you might be happy enough with that.

Hell, get the router out from behind the TV if that's where you put it (everyone tries putting it there to hide it) and you might get all the signal you need.

Powerline is alright if you have literally no other option but I'd take wifi instead 10/10 times unless my PC was trapped inside a Faraday cage.

I'm currently using powerline because running an ethernet cable across the apartment seemed gaudy at best. The suggestion of a flat white cable stuck to the wall seems interesting.

I have the modem and router on a UPS because power flickers semi-regularly here. Sadly, powerline cannot go on a UPS.

Oh, perhaps I have a project.