resolved - hopefully

[ppaik]

I have a cable connection coming into one side of the house. Its plugged into a router which serves 2 computers. I want to add an additional computer in on the other side of the house. I know I can run another cable all the way back to the router, but will it be easier to buy another router and set it up on the other part of the house? Or will there be conflicts? Also will a simple hub or switch work?

Thanks in advance.

edit: The router and cable modem are in the same room with one of the computers, and the other computer is in the other part of the house where I ran a wire. I want to add another computer to that room where the one wire is (away from the cable modem and router)

 

[JackMDS]

You can not put two Routers on the same Cable account.

If you have already a Wire coming to the Room from the Router, buy a Switch plug this wire to the switch and plug as many computer as there is ports to the Switch.

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You have to plug the Wire coming from the Router to an Uplink Port of the Switch.

 

[imported_Paladin]

You say you want to connect a computer to the router but you don't want to run wire. Some options are:

Cascade a wireless access point or replace router with a wireless router -- might not handle the distance.

Add a phone line networking adapter to computer and a phoneline networking to ethernet adapter at the rounter.

Add a pair of powerline to ethernet adapters.

If you have two spare pairs available in your telephone wiring use them to carry 10baseT Ethernet.

 

[ppaik]

Thanks for the help...will try a switch.