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DrunkenMistake
5th May 2012, 19:46
Hey guys,
Moving back to the folks for a short while, will be setting up my wireless router at the far end of the house as we have an apartment studio room above the garage, before we moved out we had it set up with an Ethernet cable running via the roof over the house to the very front room in the house so Mum and Dads computer is wired in via Ethernet cable, The old man has now got himself a laptop and got rid of the desktop completely and I wouldnt mind having a wireless connection downstairs.

ANYWAYS I was wondering is there such thing as a wi fi hub I can connect to the Ethernet cable downstairs that would enable it to be a Wi Fi connection?

If that doesnt make sense I can make some crude diagram in paint haha.
Bald Eagle
5th May 2012, 19:58
One of these will do the trick http://www.dicksmith.co.nz/product/XH0578/d-link-wireless-n-router
pete376403
5th May 2012, 19:59
Wireless access point. About $35 - 45.
hayd3n
5th May 2012, 20:07
we have 2x routers here just plugeed em togeather via ethernet cable and walaa 2x wireless connections makes the wifi access a whole lot bigger
DrunkenMistake
5th May 2012, 20:07
One of these will do the trick http://www.dicksmith.co.nz/product/XH0578/d-link-wireless-n-router


I already have a wireless router, but I want wireless at the back of the house, and at the front of the house, where at the moment I only have wireless at the back and no more.
DrunkenMistake
5th May 2012, 20:08
Wireless access point. About $35 - 45.
Excellent wasnt sure if you could get such a thing.


we have 2x routers here just plugeed em togeather via ethernet cable and walaa 2x wireless connections makes the wifi access a whole lot bigger

Yah thought about this also but a router is about $80 and if a wireless access point is about $45 then its alot cheaper
hayd3n
5th May 2012, 20:11
Excellent wasnt sure if you could get such a thing.



Yah thought about this also but a router is about $80 and if a wireless access point is about $45 then its alot cheaper

cheeper 2nd hand on trade me my last one was free on that free face book stuff page
DrunkenMistake
5th May 2012, 20:14
cheeper 2nd hand on trade me my last one was free on that free face book stuff page



Was just looking at that, found a couple for the likes of $30 did you just plug it in via ethernet cable? or did you set it up to the phone jack etc?
hayd3n
5th May 2012, 20:19
Was just looking at that, found a couple for the likes of $30 did you just plug it in via ethernet cable? or did you set it up to the phone jack etc?

kept the orgiinal one plugged in via phone line to get bband then attached the other one via ethernet
JimO
5th May 2012, 21:26
one of my boys set up my mac so its a wireless doodad, thats how they managed to use 40gig a month of my internet