Calab
New Around Here
The second floor of my home has no ethernet jacks nor any way to install cabling. I have several devices in my second floor office that I want to connect to my network. A couple have 802.11b or g connectivity, but most only have ethernet jacks.
Also, while Windows is pretty easy to find a USB wifi adapter, it can be difficult to find one that operates well in Linux or OSX. Just using the ethernet ports would be much simpler.
I noticed that most wifi extenders have an ethernet jack on them. Could I place one of these in my office, and connect its ethernet port to a switch, allowing multiple devices to connect without knowing that they are on wifi?
Some of these extenders offer Router, AP and Repeater modes... which mode is the one I should be looking for in this case?
My wifi consists of my ISP's fibre router, in the basement, offering 802.11 b/g/n (disabled) and a Linksys EA6500 AC1750 router in bridged mode, on the first floor, offering b/g/n/ac.
All suggestions and comments are welcome! Thanks!
<edit>I am considering using a Linksys RE6700 as it will support my AC network and has a gigabit ethernet port. Would this do?</edit>
Also, while Windows is pretty easy to find a USB wifi adapter, it can be difficult to find one that operates well in Linux or OSX. Just using the ethernet ports would be much simpler.
I noticed that most wifi extenders have an ethernet jack on them. Could I place one of these in my office, and connect its ethernet port to a switch, allowing multiple devices to connect without knowing that they are on wifi?
Some of these extenders offer Router, AP and Repeater modes... which mode is the one I should be looking for in this case?
My wifi consists of my ISP's fibre router, in the basement, offering 802.11 b/g/n (disabled) and a Linksys EA6500 AC1750 router in bridged mode, on the first floor, offering b/g/n/ac.
All suggestions and comments are welcome! Thanks!
<edit>I am considering using a Linksys RE6700 as it will support my AC network and has a gigabit ethernet port. Would this do?</edit>
Last edited: