Wireless Client

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Hello
I've been asked by one of my neighbours to assist them to make adjustments to their home wireless/LAN network.

The set up is as follows:

There appears to be two WAN connections entering the very large property, with a BT Hub (FTTC) and an EE connection via an external antenna (TP Link router) into another section of the property.
As well as a desktop PC connected via ethernet to the BT Hub, there is also an IP CCTV camera plugged directly into it via a POE.
To view the CCTV camera, an app on a notebook is used which is connected via Wi-Fi to the TP Link router. Due to thick stone walls of the property, the TP Link router has to be positioned in a very strategically, so that it can
connect via wireless back to the BT Hub to view the CCTV camera (which I'm assuming is a wireless client set up)
I was thinking that to remove the reliance on the Wi-Fi link from the BT Hub to the TP Link router, it would be more appropriate and reliable to route a CAT5E cable and plug either end into one of the ethernet points in both hub and router.

Any comments or suggestions would be very much appreciated.
 
Can you access the TP-Link settings to see how it's been set up? It'll be hard to advise if a simple cable connecting the two will work, it depends if it actually does have it's own WAN connection, functioning as a separate DHCP server, or actually just some sort of booster/extender for the BT hub.
 
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