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Need to relocate a phone jack

MDE

MDE

Lifer
I'm getting DSL service installed, and the only phone jack in the condo is in the bedroom, in the back. My HTPC, Xbox 360, and TiVo are all in the front of the place. What's the easiest way to get the phone jack to the front short of stapling a phone cord to the ceiling? I've seen the wireless adapters, but I have no idea if they'll work with DSL or just plain voice. I'd get another outlet installed, but this a rental. Any ideas?
 
How far is it? My current rental I have an ethernet cable run from my bedroom to the living room. I did this by tucking the cable between the wall and the carpet.
 
About 25 feet, longer if I want to tuck it against walls. Can't do the carpet trick, because there isn't any, unfortunately.
 
You can run it along the baseboard too and that will be easier to install. For 25ft, another idea is use two wireless routers but use one of them as a client bridge. Hook your tvio, xbox, etc to the client bridge and that will connect wirelessly to the WAP.

Any DDWRT capable device can be used as a client bridge.
 
You could also use a single WiFi router or access point at the DSL modem and attach WiFi receivers on the devices in the other room. It's less complicated than setting up a DDWRT bridge, but might be pricier if you need WiFi adapters for all those devices at the front of the place.
 
Setting up a client bridge with DDWRT isn't much more complex than setting it up to act as router and WAP.

WDS is a bit more difficult and a bit less reliable I've found in v23. But setting up client bridge mode is fairly easy.
 
I've decided to just run an ethernet cable. It'll be cheap and more reliable than running internet connection sharing on the HTPC.
 
With using a second router as a wireless bridge, you would then have at least 5 ports on the router to use for devices to plug in. You can get a refurbished Linksys Wireless-N router from Amazon for under $40. Two of those would make a great wireless setup in you condo.

- Merg
 
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