Hardwired in different rooms?

[timgonzalez209]

So we recently just moved into a new house but the internet setup is different. In our old house Frontier FiOS gave us an extender that connected to the coax ports. My mother had taken the main router because it’s mandatory for her to be wired in for her work. I wanted to be wired in because I like having the best possible connection for gaming plus my desktop lacked a Wifi adapter so it had to be wired in regardless. So I used the Wifi extender provided by FiOS to connect to the coax port in my room and was able to have a wired connection for my PC and PS4. Since the extender was hardwired into the wall via coax, I experienced no loss in download speeds. However in the new house, we still have FiOS but instead of accessing internet via coax, we use the ethernet ports instead. So now my mom is perfectly fine because she has the router still but I’m stuck with a PC that has no internet connection because my Wifi extended no longer receives internet because it needed a coax port not Ethernet. I know I can just buy a Wifi adapter for my pc and use Wifi for my PC and PS4, but I prefer a hard wired connection. I know that power line is a method but apparently it’s unreliable at times and can heavily cut down download speeds. I was trying to look up a solution for my problem and came across the Nighthawk EX7000 range extender. It connects to the router wirelessly and can extend the range of our Wifi signal as well as have 4 Ethernet ports to be hardwired. However I was told by multiple Best Buy employees that using the connection off extenders will slow down download speeds as well since it’s connected to the router wirelessly. I looked up even more information about the extended and I guess I can set up the extender as an access point? Not sure what that really means but from what I got from it I can hardwire it to a source that has internet? The Best Buy employees told me since our new home connects to the internet via Ethernet instead of coax, there was no need of a modem since the ONT box in our garage acts as the modem, so all we needed to do is just connect a router to wall via Ethernet and it would work just fine. Which it did, we tested it out on an old router we had and had internet access without connecting it to a modem device. So I was wondering if I can just set up a Wifi extender as an access point and just hardware it into the wall via ethernet instead of wirelessly connecting to the router and losing download speed. If this methods works, I would be able to be hardwired without having lower download speeds as well have have more Wifi coverage since my mother’s office and my room are on opposite sides of each other. I would appreciate other ideas or methods of solving my problem as well. Thanks for reading.

 

[nigelivey]

Yes. (nice CONCISE answer)!

 

[bill001g]

This is close to impossible to read formatted like this. Powerline can have issues with the wiring but it has less issues than wifi.

The cable needs to go ONT-ROUTE-SWITCH---ethernet to all the rooms.

If your house has ethernet wires to all the rooms there likely is a central closet that they all come into but it maybe in your garage. You want to place a switch in that closet. The router does not have to be in that closet but many people do because it tends to be hard to place it elsewhere unless you have 2 ethernet cables running to a remote room.