GBS Posted May 12, 2008 Report Share Posted May 12, 2008 (edited) Another techie question im afraid.. I have just installed a wireless router in the front room and want to run a cable from it directly into my desktop upstairs. What is the best way to go about this? Should I 1) use a long adsl cable from the phone socket to the router and take the router upstairs? 2) Leave the router where it is and run a long ethernet cable to the desktop upstairs? I'm sure someone has told me the best way to do this before but its not the sort of thing that sticks in my head! Thanks for all advice in advance. GB Edited May 12, 2008 by georgieB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamW Posted May 12, 2008 Report Share Posted May 12, 2008 Option 2 or get a wireless adpter and no cable! Adam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_UK Posted May 12, 2008 Report Share Posted May 12, 2008 Why do you want to run an ethenet cable when you have wireless? get a wireless card for your p.c Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GBS Posted May 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2008 Why do you want to run an ethenet cable when you have wireless? get a wireless card for your p.c would it not be faster to run it directly in with a cable? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamW Posted May 12, 2008 Report Share Posted May 12, 2008 No faster... if your surfing, but cable would be better if transfering files between PC's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GBS Posted May 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2008 No faster... if your surfing, but cable would be better if transfering files between PC's so a wireless stick into the usb port would do it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamW Posted May 12, 2008 Report Share Posted May 12, 2008 yep! unless you have the dieing urge to run a cable.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GBS Posted May 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2008 yep! unless you have the dieing urge to run a cable.. Well, seeing as its a rented house, perhaps wireless with no holes though walls/floors might be a better idea! Many thanks. gb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wookie Posted May 12, 2008 Report Share Posted May 12, 2008 Be a man and break out a big drill, then get bulk cabling in and make you own CAT5! More seriously, if you are going to use wireless, make sure you either enable WPA2 encryption and/or use a MAC whitelist. This should (hopefully) prevent people from stealing your bandwidth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GBS Posted May 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2008 Be a man and break out a big drill, then get bulk cabling in and make you own CAT5! Actually the big drill is being "broken out" this evening to install the gunsafe............ gb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul1966 Posted May 12, 2008 Report Share Posted May 12, 2008 or do what that yank did and fire a shot through the wall, just make sure your wife is not standing on the other side of the wall, can get a bit messy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyb Posted May 12, 2008 Report Share Posted May 12, 2008 Option 2... providing the run is under 100m you would regret option 1... trust me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul1966 Posted May 12, 2008 Report Share Posted May 12, 2008 Option 2... providing the run is under 100m you would regret option 1... trust me definitely agree with the above. i used a 10 metre adsl lead, my router synchronized at around 2 mb with an SNR of 18. moved it next to the BT socket on a short adsl lead now have an SNR of 9 and sync at around 7 mb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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