Hi, I'm trying to adjust the networking in my parent's house but I'm pretty bad at setting stuff like this up so not sure if it would work. I might be wrong about some things.
Basically I want to know whether if we have two routers, can one be used just as a hub to connect two devices by ethernet (but not wireless)?
At the moment the phone line comes into the house downstairs where there's a wall box with "Internet" and "Phone" sockets on it. A cable from that then extends upstairs to another socket, where a Netgear DG834G router is connected. A PC and Xbox 360 are connected by ethernet to the DG834G. Downstairs in a different room, a PC connects through wi-fi, but due to a wall or two it gets really low connection quality and needs sorting out.
My parents have had an unused BT Home Hub for ages (which we realise is not meant to be great), so they want to have the Home Hub downstairs near the first socket hoping it will improve wi-fi downstairs. So basically, could I run a cable from the Home Hub to the wall socket, upstairs through the extension, into the DG834G and still connect the other PC/360 through that by ethernet? It would be easier to make those wi-fi but we'd rather not have to get more adapters or lose any speed.
Sorry this is really long, I'm just afraid I'll screw something up. With networking stuff I usually manage to set these things up by luck without actually knowing how I did it. Thanks for any help!
Basically I want to know whether if we have two routers, can one be used just as a hub to connect two devices by ethernet (but not wireless)?
At the moment the phone line comes into the house downstairs where there's a wall box with "Internet" and "Phone" sockets on it. A cable from that then extends upstairs to another socket, where a Netgear DG834G router is connected. A PC and Xbox 360 are connected by ethernet to the DG834G. Downstairs in a different room, a PC connects through wi-fi, but due to a wall or two it gets really low connection quality and needs sorting out.
My parents have had an unused BT Home Hub for ages (which we realise is not meant to be great), so they want to have the Home Hub downstairs near the first socket hoping it will improve wi-fi downstairs. So basically, could I run a cable from the Home Hub to the wall socket, upstairs through the extension, into the DG834G and still connect the other PC/360 through that by ethernet? It would be easier to make those wi-fi but we'd rather not have to get more adapters or lose any speed.
Sorry this is really long, I'm just afraid I'll screw something up. With networking stuff I usually manage to set these things up by luck without actually knowing how I did it. Thanks for any help!
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