Home Networking ?

Posted by: DBALKUNJR

Home Networking ? - 10/09/2004 15:19

My other half has decided that my desk with all my electronics is taking up too much space where it currently resides in the den, thus I am being evicted to a spare bedroom. Problem is that I do not want to reroute all my network connections to the spare bedroom. Can I run one Cable from the spare bedroom to the den connecting theend in the bedroom up to my Linksys router and the other end into a switch or hub so that I do not have to run all the connections back to the bedroom?
Posted by: tfabris

Re: Home Networking ? - 10/09/2004 15:21

Of course. That's the whole point of switches and hubs.
Posted by: peakmop

Re: Home Networking ? - 11/09/2004 03:28

You don't even need that one cable. You can get a pair of Linksys
WRT54G or WRT54GS Wireless-G routers dirt cheap at Walmart. Grab a firmware update from sveasoft.com and you'll be good to go with a router and a wireless repeater in your bedroom. The downside to this is that you'll have less bandwidth than with 100 Mb/s wired router.
Posted by: wfaulk

Re: Home Networking ? - 11/09/2004 04:20

Actually, if the only thing on the remote side of the wireless connection is the internet connection, there shouldn't be any speed difference, as the computer-to-computer connections will all be through the 100Mbps hub built into the wireless adapter.