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Hi everyone, kindof stuck as to how I do this. This is the situation;

Upstairs in my office we have a router, with both desktops connected to it on cat5, then a spare dock for our laptops and the printer connected wirelessly.

Downstairs, directly below the router in the lounge is my PS3, Sky HD box and TV. The wireless signal just doesn't seem to carry around the house so I'm looking for something I can plug into the router up here, then run a nice fast fibre optic/cat5 cable downstairs through the ceiling to another box then connect PS3, TV and Sky box to, but would also extend the wireless signal (or create a new wifi port thing).

The router I have at the moment is a Netgear dual band one. Keeping it Wifi isn't an option as it just doesn't work.

Can anyone give me a bit of guidance as to what I need and how I do it?

Thanks.
 
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The switch would take care of the connections, but can I do anything on the wifi side of things as well?
 
cw318is said:
oops! missed the slash - edited for clarity!

The switch would take care of the connections, but can I do anything on the wifi side of things as well?
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You could pop in a wireless access point like something from zxyxel, set it with the same network name and password and off you go.
 
If the aerial on the router is vertical, try moving to a horizontal position.

These aerials are (sort of) directional and radiate mostly at right angles. By turning it horizontally it will radiate downwards to your lounge.
 
Buy a couple of ethernet over power adaptors, will give you enough bandwidth for media streaming etc (if you get good ones) then simply plug from your router into a power socket and out of a socket downstairs, simply shove a basic switch on the other end for more rj45 ports.
 
If the option to drop cat5 then I'd do that over power line, you'll never get gigabit speeds from them which if you're running several devices over the link would be a good idea
 
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