So I have an AT&T NID box on the side of my house for aDSL internet.
Connected to the inside of the nic is a blue and white wire, that comes from a cat6 cable, which runs 250ft down to my barn, and the other end of this ethernet cable is again split and connected to a dsl type outlet/cable, which then connects to the dsl port on the router to give my barn WIFI.
I want to bring the router back to my house, and use the existing cat6 cable to run a WIFI extender down there (access point). This way my house has the strongest wifi and barn can have some too.
My question is, do I just buy a dsl cable, plug one end into the router at home and the other into the NID box, mimicking exactly
how my current connection with the ethernet is plugged in with the blue and white wire going into the same spot? Or since now i have a dsl cable instead of a cat6, i have to wire it differently?
I'm also assuming I have to plug into the "DSL" labeled port on my router, and not one of the many ethernet ports in order to have a connection to the NID box.
Thanks!
Connected to the inside of the nic is a blue and white wire, that comes from a cat6 cable, which runs 250ft down to my barn, and the other end of this ethernet cable is again split and connected to a dsl type outlet/cable, which then connects to the dsl port on the router to give my barn WIFI.
I want to bring the router back to my house, and use the existing cat6 cable to run a WIFI extender down there (access point). This way my house has the strongest wifi and barn can have some too.
My question is, do I just buy a dsl cable, plug one end into the router at home and the other into the NID box, mimicking exactly
how my current connection with the ethernet is plugged in with the blue and white wire going into the same spot? Or since now i have a dsl cable instead of a cat6, i have to wire it differently?
I'm also assuming I have to plug into the "DSL" labeled port on my router, and not one of the many ethernet ports in order to have a connection to the NID box.
Thanks!
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