Network advice

[davidjpowell]

Help! - I have a problem, and I think a soloution, but would be very gateful if someone could confirm whether my idea will work?

I have just got some work from a company who need me to use their own laptop to get into their system, via my own broadband connection.

I already work from home so am pretty well set up with wireless broad band etc, but the company who have supplied the laptop will not let me use Wireless.

I am loath to run an extension for the router into my office as I rent my house at present and am concerned at what effect an extension would have on my boradband speed.

I have seen a power product for networking, http://www.devolo.com/co_EN/produkte/dlan/dlan200avsk.html and had thought of using my wireless router to hook up to the broadband, and then one of th RJ45's into this adaptor, then at the other end to use another router plugged into the RJ45 that I have hanging around to distribute the signal between laptop / pc / printer.

I think this might work, but any second opinion would be gratefully received.

Kind regards

David

 

[stevesey]

Running peice of cat 5 cable from router to office should have no impact on your speed and is the fastest and cheapest solution - as long as you can do without too much drilling and and hammering (as it's a rented house). Personally I'd run cable to any room that will have regular PC usage - I only use wireless for sitting on the sofa and browsing.

 

[robert.saunders]

I use those adapters (well, similar type) and they are excellent - at one end I cat5 straight from the adapter into my router, and the other end has an Ethernet switch again connex via cat5 and I run a PC, NAS, xbox and BTVision from the switch, works no problem at all

 

[davidjpowell]

Thanks for that. I can't go fo the cable option, so adaptors it is.

Best wishes

David

 

[davidjpowell]

Just thought I would come back and say thank you. It's working a treat and runs much faster than wireless.

David

 

[Storm]

Those adaptors truly rock. However, another option would have been (and I'm aware that I'm late to the part here) to plug your laptop, via cat5 into a wireless sender. Basically your latop would think it was talking over cable, but the wireless sender device converts the signal to wireless and connect to your router.

The Homeplug solution is pretty portable though, providing you're near a powersocket (which is rarely an issue).

 

[gbjeppm]

I have the 14mbps version of the Devolo adaptors connected to my netgear router, they are plugged into extension leads etc etc, and they work extremely well. About £60 I think, money well spent, in my case it was to better poor wireless signal to my sons bedroom.

 

[davidjpowell]

It's worked out well as I have been able to network one of my printers so that my step-son and I can both print from different locations. I never managed to get this working with wireless!

David