Cavey
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Registered: 11th Nov 02
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Ok, not sure if this should be in geek day or house day, so going with here....
We're moving into a house which has got first fit, which means that when the main phone point is connected it gets split into all 3 sockets in the house.
Does anyone know if that means if I have 2 routers, I could have one downstairs for the ps3 and one one the middle floor for a computer? So both things are hardwired and should provide better and more reliable connection speeds? I'm not a fan of wireless everything screws up too much.
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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You can't, would have to run cat5 or powerline adapters if you want it wired.
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Cosmo
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Registered: 29th Mar 01
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Aye, John is right. Need to either run network cable (is best) or use the plug socket thingies.
I use the plug sockets and its not so bad (gives me a solid connection compared to the wireless) but if I had the option Id of networked it.
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noshua
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If you were to have 2 routers, one of them would have to be connected to the other via either wireless or cable. The only benefits are;
more Ethernet ports (2 routers rather than 1)
less cable being run from upstairs (saves running more than 1 cable down stairs to the router)
a possible better wireless signal
edit; obviously if you had two routers, 1 downstairs, 1 upstairs, if the upstairs was connected to the downstairs via wireless, then a computer was connected to the upstairs router via cable, there would hardly be any benefit what so ever in this, so you'd still have to run a cable from the downstairs router to the upstairs router.
[Edited on 10-02-2010 by noshua]
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Cavey
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Registered: 11th Nov 02
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Didn't think I could do what I was planning, but was hoping there would be a solution for it. Oh well.
Or that I could use the telephone cabling which was there for transmitting data. Crap, looks like the Ps3 is staying on wireless then.
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