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Require wired connection in room
The modem is in my room, the router is wired to the other side of the house upstairs.
What are my options here?
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- FuzzyLogic
Community Power User
If you truly need wired your options would be to run ethernet cable or use powerline adaptors.
- What is it that you are trying to accomplish? Are you in fibre?
Yes, fibre. I have lights that require ethernet as well as need a stronger more consistent internet connection on my laptop that wiring in would likely fix. Wi-Fi does not reach the room all that often. There is no option for me to plug into the router so does Telus do any non-wifi routers for me to install?
Options:
-- Move the wireless router to the same room as the telus modem.
--Invest in a mesh system where the main router is in the same room as you require a wired connection. (Mesh system NOT extenders)
--As mentioned, run a second wire back to the room with the Modem (from the room with the router)
--As mentioned, run a powerline network back to the room where you need an ethernet connection. (YMMV)
-use two small switches which support VLAN to use your single network cable to have a path for modem to router as well as a path from router to your connection.
These solutions are of varying complexity. I would go with the mesh system putting the router node by your modem and having the remote node perhaps where your router currently is (and linking them by hard wire)
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