Easiest and most effective way to get internet to an upstairs room.

[Twijn]

To kind of understand a bit of what my whole setup is, this is somewhat of an explanation:

I currently have my modem in my kitchen. I have a 50 ft Ethernet cable simply running across the side of the wall to get to my computer, which is in a different room. I want to be able to move my computer upstairs. To get to this room the easiest, I would have to go up into the "attic" of the kitchen and run it a bit to where there is the side of the room (There is a "door" in the side of the room where I want to move it which leads to the "attic"). The issue is, the attic is extremely nasty and very soft. After all, my house is over 100 years old. Now, doing this will probably get the best performance. I however have a Wi-Fi extender. This has an ethernet port on it. I'm not sure if this actually acts as an ethernet port or what, as I have never actually tested it, however I would assume that it acts as one... This extender is just on the opposite wall of the room I want to move my computer to. Would it work well to have it going through that? My PC does not have any kind of Wi-Fi so it cannot connect directly without buying one, however would this act roughly the same as just Wi-Fi would, or would it be better or worse? My internet connection is only 6 Mbps as it is limited by my location. I do not have any use for any LAN kind of things, so this will always be limited to this speed. Will this noticeably effect the speed or ping of my internet? If so, how much? Which option would be the best in this case?

 

[Chugalug_]

It will work as an ethernet port just fine. What the extender does is it relayed the signal from the original modem, and outputs it again as another signal. It will perform better than your wifi does currently by a tonne, I can't give a figure because your connection speed can vary regardless, and I don't know your standard ethernet speeds.
Just do a comparison for yourself using speedtest.net.

 

[Shaun o]

I would be thinking of going for a power line solution to get internet from the router in the kitchen to the upstairs room where you want your computer.

All you do is buy a power line kit where you get two adaptors.

One is connected to a free Ethernet port of your router, and then it is plugged into the ring main via the power socket.

It then uses the houses ring main. you simply plug the other power line adaptor into a power socket in the bedroom where the computer will be and connect a Ethernet cable to the power line adaptor then to the Ethernet port of your system to get internet.

Twijn.

You don`t have to run wires plus it can be better than using a wireless connection broadcast from the main router or Wifi repeater station. It may be a better all round solution for you Twijn.

Click on the link bellow to see a range of power line adaptors, the higher the speed transmission the more you will pay for a starter kit, where two power line adaptors are included. If you do a lot of multiplayer Fps gaming then a power line adaptor kit will give you a much lower Ping and a more reliable internet connection.

As you know wi-fi can sometimes be bad if the distance is quiet far or you have the router on one level of the house and the pc trying to connect to it, and also lot`s of walls between the two can give low speeds and a bad ping with wi-fi.


https://www.overclockers.co.uk/peripherals/networking-and-wireless-lan/powerline-networking

 

[Twijn]

A lot of those seem fairly expensive... The ones that I have been seeing are more than $50 each, and who knows how good they will be if they are the cheapest... The good thing about the other ideas is that I already have the supplies to do them

 

[hang-the-9]

To kind of understand a bit of what my whole setup is, this is somewhat of an explanation:

I currently have my modem in my kitchen. I have a 50 ft Ethernet cable simply running across the side of the wall to get to my computer, which is in a different room. I want to be able to move my computer upstairs. To get to this room the easiest, I would have to go up into the "attic" of the kitchen and run it a bit to where there is the side of the room (There is a "door" in the side of the room where I want to move it which leads to the "attic"). The issue is, the attic is extremely nasty and very soft. After all, my house is over 100 years old. Now, doing this will probably get the best performance. I however have a Wi-Fi extender. This has an ethernet port on it. I'm not sure if this actually acts as an ethernet port or what, as I have never actually tested it, however I would assume that it acts as one... This extender is just on the opposite wall of the room I want to move my computer to. Would it work well to have it going through that? My PC does not have any kind of Wi-Fi so it cannot connect directly without buying one, however would this act roughly the same as just Wi-Fi would, or would it be better or worse? My internet connection is only 6 Mbps as it is limited by my location. I do not have any use for any LAN kind of things, so this will always be limited to this speed. Will this noticeably effect the speed or ping of my internet? If so, how much? Which option would be the best in this case?

The WiFi extender does not likely have an Ethernet port the way you are thinking. It would be to connect to your network to get a WiFi signal to a different area. Ethernet connection is to the router or switch, then you have a strong WiFi signal from that. It's not a WiFi connection that then creates an Ethernet port for a computer. While those do exist, I doubt that is what you have. For an old house, powerline networking is a bit iffy, I live in an old house also, and I have issues with powerline being stable.

 

[Twijn]

To kind of understand a bit of what my whole setup is, this is somewhat of an explanation:

I currently have my modem in my kitchen. I have a 50 ft Ethernet cable simply running across the side of the wall to get to my computer, which is in a different room. I want to be able to move my computer upstairs. To get to this room the easiest, I would have to go up into the "attic" of the kitchen and run it a bit to where there is the side of the room (There is a "door" in the side of the room where I want to move it which leads to the "attic"). The issue is, the attic is extremely nasty and very soft. After all, my house is over 100 years old. Now, doing this will probably get the best performance. I however have a Wi-Fi extender. This has an ethernet port on it. I'm not sure if this actually acts as an ethernet port or what, as I have never actually tested it, however I would assume that it acts as one... This extender is just on the opposite wall of the room I want to move my computer to. Would it work well to have it going through that? My PC does not have any kind of Wi-Fi so it cannot connect directly without buying one, however would this act roughly the same as just Wi-Fi would, or would it be better or worse? My internet connection is only 6 Mbps as it is limited by my location. I do not have any use for any LAN kind of things, so this will always be limited to this speed. Will this noticeably effect the speed or ping of my internet? If so, how much? Which option would be the best in this case?

The WiFi extender does not likely have an Ethernet port the way you are thinking. It would be to connect to your network to get a WiFi signal to a different area. Ethernet connection is to the router or switch, then you have a strong WiFi signal from that. It's not a WiFi connection that then creates an Ethernet port for a computer. While those do exist, I doubt that is what you have. For an old house, powerline networking is a bit iffy, I live in an old house also, and I have issues with powerline being stable.

It must be what I have since I'm using my computer currently with an ethernet cable plugged into the port on the WiFi extender. I don't have any sort of WiFi thing on my computer, so it must work like that. I haven't been able to buy powerline since neither Radioshack nor Walmart (which walmart not having it is not surprising). If the powerline does not work, then what can I do to make it work? Is it possible to rewire the wall plugs to work as Internet lines, since we do have our modem going through the wall ethernet plugs?

 

[hang-the-9]

To kind of understand a bit of what my whole setup is, this is somewhat of an explanation:

I currently have my modem in my kitchen. I have a 50 ft Ethernet cable simply running across the side of the wall to get to my computer, which is in a different room. I want to be able to move my computer upstairs. To get to this room the easiest, I would have to go up into the "attic" of the kitchen and run it a bit to where there is the side of the room (There is a "door" in the side of the room where I want to move it which leads to the "attic"). The issue is, the attic is extremely nasty and very soft. After all, my house is over 100 years old. Now, doing this will probably get the best performance. I however have a Wi-Fi extender. This has an ethernet port on it. I'm not sure if this actually acts as an ethernet port or what, as I have never actually tested it, however I would assume that it acts as one... This extender is just on the opposite wall of the room I want to move my computer to. Would it work well to have it going through that? My PC does not have any kind of Wi-Fi so it cannot connect directly without buying one, however would this act roughly the same as just Wi-Fi would, or would it be better or worse? My internet connection is only 6 Mbps as it is limited by my location. I do not have any use for any LAN kind of things, so this will always be limited to this speed. Will this noticeably effect the speed or ping of my internet? If so, how much? Which option would be the best in this case?

The WiFi extender does not likely have an Ethernet port the way you are thinking. It would be to connect to your network to get a WiFi signal to a different area. Ethernet connection is to the router or switch, then you have a strong WiFi signal from that. It's not a WiFi connection that then creates an Ethernet port for a computer. While those do exist, I doubt that is what you have. For an old house, powerline networking is a bit iffy, I live in an old house also, and I have issues with powerline being stable.

It must be what I have since I'm using my computer currently with an ethernet cable plugged into the port on the WiFi extender. I don't have any sort of WiFi thing on my computer, so it must work like that. I haven't been able to buy powerline since neither Radioshack nor Walmart (which walmart not having it is not surprising). If the powerline does not work, then what can I do to make it work? Is it possible to rewire the wall plugs to work as Internet lines, since we do have our modem going through the wall ethernet plugs?

You said in the first post that you are not using that Ethernet port, now you say you are using it? "It must be what I have since I'm using my computer currently with an ethernet cable plugged into the port on the WiFi extender." "I however have a Wi-Fi extender. This has an ethernet port on it. I'm not sure if this actually acts as an ethernet port or what, as I have never actually tested it, however I would assume that it acts as one..." So what do you have and what are you doing with it?

You can run Ethernet cable inside the walls, you can't just re-use the phone cords for this, you need new cabling and new jacks put in.

 

[Twijn]

To kind of understand a bit of what my whole setup is, this is somewhat of an explanation:

I currently have my modem in my kitchen. I have a 50 ft Ethernet cable simply running across the side of the wall to get to my computer, which is in a different room. I want to be able to move my computer upstairs. To get to this room the easiest, I would have to go up into the "attic" of the kitchen and run it a bit to where there is the side of the room (There is a "door" in the side of the room where I want to move it which leads to the "attic"). The issue is, the attic is extremely nasty and very soft. After all, my house is over 100 years old. Now, doing this will probably get the best performance. I however have a Wi-Fi extender. This has an ethernet port on it. I'm not sure if this actually acts as an ethernet port or what, as I have never actually tested it, however I would assume that it acts as one... This extender is just on the opposite wall of the room I want to move my computer to. Would it work well to have it going through that? My PC does not have any kind of Wi-Fi so it cannot connect directly without buying one, however would this act roughly the same as just Wi-Fi would, or would it be better or worse? My internet connection is only 6 Mbps as it is limited by my location. I do not have any use for any LAN kind of things, so this will always be limited to this speed. Will this noticeably effect the speed or ping of my internet? If so, how much? Which option would be the best in this case?

The WiFi extender does not likely have an Ethernet port the way you are thinking. It would be to connect to your network to get a WiFi signal to a different area. Ethernet connection is to the router or switch, then you have a strong WiFi signal from that. It's not a WiFi connection that then creates an Ethernet port for a computer. While those do exist, I doubt that is what you have. For an old house, powerline networking is a bit iffy, I live in an old house also, and I have issues with powerline being stable.

It must be what I have since I'm using my computer currently with an ethernet cable plugged into the port on the WiFi extender. I don't have any sort of WiFi thing on my computer, so it must work like that. I haven't been able to buy powerline since neither Radioshack nor Walmart (which walmart not having it is not surprising). If the powerline does not work, then what can I do to make it work? Is it possible to rewire the wall plugs to work as Internet lines, since we do have our modem going through the wall ethernet plugs?

You said in the first post that you are not using that Ethernet port, now you say you are using it? "It must be what I have since I'm using my computer currently with an ethernet cable plugged into the port on the WiFi extender." "I however have a Wi-Fi extender. This has an ethernet port on it. I'm not sure if this actually acts as an ethernet port or what, as I have never actually tested it, however I would assume that it acts as one..." So what do you have and what are you doing with it?

You can run Ethernet cable inside the walls, you can't just re-use the phone cords for this, you need new cabling and new jacks put in.

I just moved it upstairs. I did not test it at the time of that post however I have now tested it and it works.