Spare Router

[original PM]

ok thats great

so forgive me for being dim why would anyone go wireless?

apart from the 2 days a year when it is sunny enough to surf in the garden

surely most the time when on a laptop you will be near a power socket anyway for when you run low on juice?

or is it just the ease of flogging on to your favorite left handed website while on the loo?

cheers for the info anyway

[voodooflux]

Ok just googled it - is it really that easy?

Just put an adapter on your plug socket, stick ethernet cable from router to adapter - put adapter on another socket and stick ethernet cable from adapter into PS3 and like magic you have a network connection?

seems to good and easy to be true - how does it actually work? are you telling me the network signals travel down your power cables?

Yes

[original PM]

Quote:
Why can't you just cable direct from the power socket to the PS3?
(I presume you're using ethernet over power)

How do you do this???

Ok just googled it - is it really that easy?

Just put an adapter on your plug socket, stick ethernet cable from router to adapter - put adapter on another socket and stick ethernet cable from adapter into PS3 and like magic you have a network connection?

seems to good and easy to be true - how does it actually work? are you telling me the network signals travel down your power cables?

[VectraMan]

How come the ADSL service has been around for 8 years and nobody has thought of this before?

I've got a DIY extension lead from the master socket into the living room with phone and router plugged in, so maybe I'm losing some speed too.

[original PM]

Why can't you just cable direct from the power socket to the PS3?
(I presume you're using ethernet over power)

How do you do this???

[interested]

I'm thinking of doing the same after reading the following:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10...oadband_boost/

and hidden away in the comments:

http://www.jarviser.co.uk/jarviser/b...enutshell.html

So rather than eff about with BT bellwire, I'm looking to make the current extension redundant by relocating the router to the master socket, then run Cat5 to the PC in other room.

I'm sure that'll result in my current 3mbps being upped to 8mbps or beyond.

I've got an i-plate. It boosted my speed from about 6.3mb to about 6.5mb. Works different for everyone though.

[voodooflux]

So rather than eff about with BT bellwire, I'm looking to make the current extension redundant by relocating the router to the master socket, then run Cat5 to the PC in other room.

I'm sure that'll result in my current 3mbps being upped to 8mbps or beyond.

I did this recently - essentially my router is plugged straight in to the "test socket" so all the extensions in the house are disconnected (our phones are Dect run off a base station also connected to the master socket). I got a 3mbps increase in speed, not to mention a more stable connection.

[PAH]

I want the router to be as close as possible to the master socket.

I'm thinking of doing the same after reading the following:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10...oadband_boost/

and hidden away in the comments:

http://www.jarviser.co.uk/jarviser/b...enutshell.html

So rather than eff about with BT bellwire, I'm looking to make the current extension redundant by relocating the router to the master socket, then run Cat5 to the PC in other room.

I'm sure that'll result in my current 3mbps being upped to 8mbps or beyond.

[BoredBloke]

I want the router to be as close as possible to the master socket. I'll then use one of its ports to connect to the PS3. I'll then use the home plugs to connect upstairs - currently we have a long extension on the phone line which goes from the lounge, up the wall into the main bedroom and then under the carpet to the computer room which is on the complete opposite side of the house. So there is a lot of crappy phone cable coupled with a couple of connectors. The other router will connect my PC and my daughters by using the old router as a hub. My son has a wireless card in his PC and I'm hoping that the newer netgear one downstairs might give a better wireless signal than the old netgear one curently does.

[VectraMan]

Why can't you just cable direct from the power socket to the PS3?
(I presume you're using ethernet over power)

Presumably he needs the downstairs router to be a router - i.e. connected to the phone line.

I have powerline connectors, but the upstairs/office one has a built in 4-port switch.

[Spacecadet]

1 - have 1 router next to the master plug socket (near the PS3) so that it could connect over ethernet. From the second port I'd connect an ethernet cable to the wall plug.

Why can't you just cable direct from the power socket to the PS3?
(I presume you're using ethernet over power)

[VectraMan]

Yep. You should turn off DHCP on the "slave" one, and you'll probably have to give it a manual IP just to stop it conflicting. Other than that, it should just function as an ethernet hub and the router part won't hurt anything.

Of course hubs are cheap as chips.

[BoredBloke]

I was wondering if the following is possible - although I suspect that it isn't.

I have 2 netgear routers and a couple of wall plug connections. I was wondering it it would be possible to do the following.

1 - have 1 router next to the master plug socket (near the PS3) so that it could connect over ethernet. From the second port I'd connect an ethernet cable to the wall plug.

2 - upstairs where I keep my other computers, connect the other wall plug and effectively use my other router as a hub

Does anybody know if it is possible to do this? The routers are nothing fancy, just your run of the mill netgear 4 ports ADSL routers.