[gIzzE]

My place is above work, currently I have had broadband in both, while I could only get 20meg I wanted my own at home, but now we have 80meg fibre then I can't see the point of keeping the 20meg downstairs.

However, there is no way to get an ethernet cable down to where it needs to go, so wondering what my wireless options are?


Down stairs I have 4 PCs, the man one(an epos system) is next to the router, which is plugged in directly, then the other three are the other side of the building in the office and are hardwired with a network switch in there feeding them all.

I guess the easiest is to put a bridge in the office and use the one ethernet cable to go back to the epos system?

But what bridge?

Anyone any ideas?

[ashmostro]

Believe it or not, a really good, cheap solution is using TiVo's wireless-N adapter which is really just a wireless bridge with one channel and one Ethernet output. Amazon is selling them at clearance for $40. Works quite well and you can choose to tx/Rx at 2.4 or 5GHz.

What will you use to transmit from the fiber line?

[gIzzE]

Cheers, I will look at that.

I have a 802.11ac router, it is supplied by the fibre provider and seems to get pretty good reports.
Only my macbook is 802.11ac though.

Someone else suggested this...

http://apcmag.com/linksys-wumc710-80...dge-review.htm

[ashmostro]

Another option if you want more features is a regular router compatible with dd-wrt firmware. It's an open source firmware that is really quite amazing... I run it on an old Linksys router for wireless repeater purposes on the 5GHz spectrum and it's flawless. does require some setup and fiddling to get right though.

[doughboy]

What's the dividing floor made of? if the floor is concrete then half or third the data rate.

Good wifi gives about 20meg in the same room, so you might suffer if you need good speed downstairs.

[NotNormal]

Use a pair of home plugs - then a netgear 5 port network switch 1 in 4 out if ou want to hard wire your PC's downstairs

If you want to extend wirelessly .... You have several options but they depend on what make/manufacture hardware yourun currently ?

[gIzzE]

I will try the homeplugs today and see if they work, it is meant to be a different ring, but you never know.
If that works it is job done as I already have one ethernet coming from the router to the office into a switch, so I can be up and running in 2 minutes.

[NotNormal]

If they're on a different ring them they're not gonna work

I have currently an Ethernet cable running along the outside of my house, I bought two wall sockets, a length of cable and made my own up.
Drilled two holes, clipped the cable neatly behind/along side the sky cable for as much of the run as I could then mounted and wired in the sockets.....job done
Less than £25 in cable, sockets and peripherals - about 1hour total too

[muffking]

Fellow yellow belly, the homeplug downstairs can also be plugged into a 2nd router, giving full stregnth WiFi where you need it and the ability to connect all the devices in that area. That's what I do, one WiFi network in the West wing and another in the East
Actually i'm lying, it means i can have a router in the centre of the house where it gives a nice even signal around the whole house.

[225_AB]

I have my homeplugs on different rings and they work fine.

[NotNormal]

Originally Posted by doc_ab

I have my homeplugs on different rings and they work fine.

Winner
Useful to know too

[225_AB]

Just needs to be the same fuse box

http://www.homeplugs.co.uk/acatalog/faqs.html

[gIzzE]

Just tried it, works fine with the homeplugs.

I will buy another pair as a needed another one for home anyway.

Job done! Thanks.

[Dr Dave]

I'm sure the homeplug solution will be just fine but I'm a big fan of cabled networks as NotNormal has done.

[gIzzE]

Me too, but, I can't really have cables running through the shop, just had the ceiling done and a new lighting system put in, I don't want to run cable or trunking, and as long as I can get online at work to check mail and read forums that is good enough.