On 03/31/2018 11:02 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sat, 31 Mar 2018, John Jason Jordan wrote: > >> The house is wired for ethernet and there is a jack in the bedroom. > > John, > > Have you considered putting a wireless access point in the bedroom, > connected to the ethernet port? You can configure it as an access point and > not a router so it's just another node on your LAN. > > Rich
Indeed. Any decent wifi router recycled from Free Geek (for example) can be configured with DD-WRT or OpenWRT/LEDE as a range extender/AP on the that room's ethernet port. Or you can pick up a dedicated box such as NETGEAR WN2000RPT or similar (usually <$40). Note the difference between "extender" and "repeater". A wifi repeater takes a wifi signal and rebroadcasts on another channel. If you are too far from the main wifi router this may not work too well. A wifi extender plugs into a wall ethernet jack and as far as your devices know they are sitting right next to your wifi router. -Ed
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