Client-bridge, media bridge, access point?

[PicklesSaysNo]

I have been searching the internet for a few days now and I can't find a clear answer to my query.

Essentially, I am moving to a new house in a few weeks. The internet point will be in the dining room where the phone plug is installed. This is a rented property so we cannot arrange for a second plug to be fitted in the living room, and for the same reason I cannot nail a huge great cable along the walls and through the door ways.

So since there will be two computers and a TV in the same location, all requiring Ethernet cables, I want to have a router or device that will receive a wireless signal then use that to provide cabled internet to my computers.

I wanted to avoid the powerline adapters as the cabling in the house is quite old, dispite the property being modernised.

Can someone please tell me what it is I'm looking for?

Much appreciated

 

[bremen1874]

There's no reason why the age of the wiring should matter. If anything older, simpler, mains wiring could be an advantage.

If you want wireless then a router that supports 'client mode' is the easiest option. DD-WRT supports it, as do many routers out of the box (I haven't got a list).

There are also wireless media adapters intended to add wireless capabilities to devices such as TVs and set top boxes (they also use client mode). The 'Sky On Demand Connector' or the TP-Link TL-WA890EA are examples.

 

[Nazbit]

If I understand correctly then I have a similar set up.

My router is in my living room with various AV equipment wired to it

Upstairs in the back bedroom I've got my computers wired together on a gigabit switch for transfers between them and connected to the switch is an access point which is connected to the router in Bridge mode.

So effectively I have two wired networks wirelessley bridged together.

All machines think they are on the same switch, they're unaware of the wireless bridge but obviously it's slower.