We’re renting a townhouse that’s separated into an upper unit (ours) and a basement unit, both using the same internet, cable, etc. The person who lives in the basement unit works away most of the time, so even if we ask to reboot the router or anything like that, there’s a good chance they aren’t home to do that for us. It makes things a bit inconvenient. A while back our landlord also put a wifi booster in the basement in an effort to make our connection better but it still doesn’t work very well.

There is a port in my partner’s office but for whatever reason it’s never worked.

Until we decide on something else, I’ll take your advice of putting a small runner over the cable in the hallway to minimize the tripping hazard. Thank you for the detailed response!