Connecting a Switch to a Wireless network

[Bar]

In need of a little advice so any help would be much appreciated.

I am moving house shortly and it appears that there is no phone socket upstairs, as this is a rented property I have no real desire to start laying cables all round the house. Only phone socket is downstairs in the livingroom. So the query is how do I go about getting the internet to my office which will be based upstairs.

The office set up contains a number of baseunits plus a number of networked printers all running through a netgear prosafe 16 port switch.

Currently I have a Belkin N1 Vision modem router providing internet access directly into the switch via Cat5e. It also supplies access to the 3/4 laptops and a PS3 and a Wii.

So the question is possibly a simple one but I am not overly technical (my brother often uses me as justification for people needing licensed to touch pcs) how do I connect something to the switch and provide access to the office upstairs?

I know it will involve an access point or bridging but most seem to require you to connect the access point to a computer, whereas I want to connect it directly to the switch.

 

[Ryan111]

So you want:

Phone line > Modem Router >> (wireless) >>AP > Swich > Computers and printers

Im not sure if you can run a switch off an AP, but i know you can run a router if one. You could have two routers, on on 192.168.1.1 and one on 192.168.2.1. I had this at one point for the same reason, but i had my second router hard wired into my first one.

 

[J.B]

You could get a second access point and bridge it with the router then connect it to the switch but in my experiance these are fiddly.

I'd suggest 2 powerline adaptors, one connected to the router downstairs, one connected to the switch upstairs.

 

[Xelene]

You could get a second access point and bridge it with the router then connect it to the switch but in my experiance these are fiddly.

I'd suggest 2 powerline adaptors, one connected to the router downstairs, one connected to the switch upstairs.

This is similar to my setup:

    ADSL
      |
    Router ( WiFi ) -- Devices
      |
    8 Port Switch ---- Poweline ---- 8 Port Switch
      |                                |
    Devices                          Devices