Apologies if this is too basic a question here. My son has an office at the end of his garden that is too far for a wifi connection (tried Home Plugs). However, there is an ethernet cable from the house to the office. In his office his laptop is wireless only so he needs a wifi connection. The ethernet socket in the house is far from the router so it will have to connect to the router via wifi. He is uk based and has a BT wifi disc which is a sort of wifi extender that also has an ethernet port on the rear of the device. Will I be able to put one of these wifi extender/disks at either end of the ethernet cable thus allowing him to connect his wireless laptop to the router (via wireless)? If the router has an ip address of 192.168.1.254 (standard BT router) and lets say an SSID called RDVES1234 how would all this hang together? I have connected devices to routers via wifi or 802.3 but not both together like this. Thank you.
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GaryTheSnail - not sure what you mean. There is no usb. In the office there is a mac laptop which only has wifi and the ethernet socket from the cable. In the house there is the other end of the ethernet cable and the router that is in another room. Not possible to physically connect the router to the 802.3 socket with a cable - hence in the house there will be a wifi connection to the ethernet socket (unless the Home Plugs work - I did not try that scenario). Assuming I have either these BT Discs (if they can work that way) or some sort of wifi/802.3 adapters would I see the RDVES1234 SSID as a wireless device on the office laptop? I.e. are these wifi/802.3 adapters 'invisible' in terms of the laptop talking to the 192.168.1.254 router?
Dave85. Your topography is correct. For some reason I did not test the Home Plugs in the house 
. This obviously would be better as it is part wired. I'm not sure about the wifi/802.3 adapter interface in terms of what the laptop will see in it's list of devices. (I.e. will it see the RDVES1234 SSID?)
. This obviously would be better as it is part wired. I'm not sure about the wifi/802.3 adapter interface in terms of what the laptop will see in it's list of devices. (I.e. will it see the RDVES1234 SSID?)The ethernet plugs did not work unfortunately so I tried, in the house, using a BT Disc. On the back of the Dsic I connected the ethernet port into the ethernet socket in the lounge (the other end is in the garden office) and the Disc connects to the home router via wifi. This appears to work in that if I connect a laptop with an ethernet port into the 802 socket in the garden office I get internet connectivity. The broadband speed is largely the same as that in the house. My only problem is that my personal laptop does not have an 802 port, only wifi. Having another BT Disc I connected that to the 802 port in the garden office and I have got it to work - but over time it seems to lose it's connection and just glows disconnected Red. These devices are not designed to work this way so I'm not too surprised. As I have a steady 802 connection in the office I 'see' no reason the TP Link Access device should not work if I plugged one in. The only thing I'm not sure of is the SSID and password that my laptop would pick up in the garden office. Because the TP_Link box is configured as an access point would it present the same SSID and need the same password as the home router?