Hi Michele, My knowledge of networks is poor and my solution wasn't free - but it has worked. And part of it's an Apple solution! But I expect something similar would work for you.
I, too, have a network cable going to the television and wanted to split it. I bought a Netgear switch from Amazon which plugs into the cable socket. You then have four socket to put things in. I put the TV in one, BT Vision in another and an Apple Airport Extreme in a third. Works a treat and splits the ethernet with no loss of bandwidth or anything. I had previously tried a Netgear wireless extender. It was one that detected the wireless network and extended it. It did do the job nicely but kept losing the wifi. I had to switch it off and on again pretty well every day. I never solved that. So then I tried a plug-in wireless extender. That worked well but when I moved with the iphone through the house it would not hop to the stronger signal as you moved further from one and nearer to the other. I'm pretty sure I could have solved that by renaming the network on the extender. Apparently if the network name is the same then devices switch to the strongest signal seamlessly. In the end I tried the Apple Airport Extreme and it worked a treat. It said "Do you want to extend the network? (and gave the name of my own network) so I said "Yes" and it's worked perfectly ever since. I have wifi throughout the house even though the router's own wifi doesn't get very far at all. And it's a strong signal everywhere. This probably won't help you directly but it may give you a bit of useful background knowledge. Best wishes,  Brian On 26 May 2013, at 22:24, Michele Mor <m_...@mail15.com> wrote: > Hi. > I'm sure that it has been asked before, but I cannot find those emails. > The situation is as follow: > I have a wireless router at the entrance of the house, but its signal arrives > only at the entrance of the garden room. > In this room I also have a network cable (from the router) that I currently > use for my smart TV. > > I have a spare wireless router (Netgear) but having checked its > specifications, it does not support wireless bridging. > > My question: can I somehow use my spare router to get the wireless signal > from the main router and then use the signal from the spare router to connect > devices from the garden? > Or can I connect the spare router to the network cable and then 1. connect > another cable from the spare router to the TV and 2. use the signal from the > spare router to connect devices from the garden? > > Do I need a cross-over cable from the main router to the spare router? > > Thanks. > Michele > > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
