Hi all, looking for some guidance on getting wired networking upstairs to my pcs.
Currently I have my internet connection coming in downstairs. Without running cables upstairs is it possible to connect something to my existing wifi network and then break it out to to ethernet?
Any help much appreciated.
Ethernet over Power, not to be confused with Power over Ethernet, which are NOT the same thing.
At my dad’s house, this technology is really slow, I do not recommend
I suspect that there are other things going on there, speeds for this technology are generally fine, but you do need to figure out which sockets to use, since the best performance is when everything is on the same circuit.
Disclaimer: I’ve used this, installed it a couple of times and troubleshooting aside, it’s worked for me.
If you’ve got a spare router laying around; you can probably flash DDWRT, OpenWRT or similar to it, then use the wifi on it as a client-bridge. Does exactly what you asked for: connects to wifi and bridges the lan ports to that connection.
I used to do this at LAN parties almost 15 years ago. I know for sure DDWRT will do it.
Don’t bother with ddwrt since it is really behind the curve.
OpenWRT is where its at but you need to proper hardware
My mesh Wi-Fi system allows me to connect Ethernet devices to the nodes which might be what you’re looking for.
