WiFi switch for hardwired devices?

MajorGunHo

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I have a detached garage from my house. Inside said garage is my man cave. I do not have wired internet into garage, but have a quality wireless router which is on the end of the house near the garage. I get strong signal throughout garage and mancave.

What I want to do is move my computers, older Blu Ray, and a few other devices out there. But they all require a hardwired Ethernet plug. I think in total it would be six devices.

So, do they make a WiFi switch that I could just plug everything into? Or how do I go about this?

Thank you in advance
 
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What you want is called a client-bridge. Those devices used to be sold all the time for game consoles and tv that only had ethernet. Now they are harder to find. What you find instead are devices many times called "range extenders". Mostly these are wireless repeaters but you can set them to not retansmit the wifi signal so then they only use the wifi to talk to the other router and let you plug in other deviices. Most only have 4 ports so you would likely need a small switch to plug in behind it.
What you want is called a client-bridge. Those devices used to be sold all the time for game consoles and tv that only had ethernet. Now they are harder to find. What you find instead are devices many times called "range extenders". Mostly these are wireless repeaters but you can set them to not retansmit the wifi signal so then they only use the wifi to talk to the other router and let you plug in other deviices. Most only have 4 ports so you would likely need a small switch to plug in behind it.
 
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