Hello,
I will describe my situation :
I'm in a youth inn and there is a dual-band router on the 1st floor. There is a D-Link range extender in my room on the 2nd floor, it is plugged in the wall and communicates with the router wirelessly, it gives wifi connection to the whole floor. My computer has a wifi usb dongle that communicates wirelessly with the extender.
Router---wifi--->Extender---wifi--->USB dongle-->my PC
My problem : I have a very instable connection and suffer both disconnections and severe packet losses, making it very hard to do online gaming decently. The router is too far from my computer to wire them directly.
My question : is it possible to plug an ethernet cable from the Extender to my computer without hindering the extender's purpose as a wifi access for everyone else ? (there is an ethernet port in th extender)
It would look like
Router---wifi--->Extender---WIRED-->my PC
If yes, is there a particular protocol to follow? Let's say I'm a tech noob and all the words I know about networks are here in my post
I will describe my situation :
I'm in a youth inn and there is a dual-band router on the 1st floor. There is a D-Link range extender in my room on the 2nd floor, it is plugged in the wall and communicates with the router wirelessly, it gives wifi connection to the whole floor. My computer has a wifi usb dongle that communicates wirelessly with the extender.
Router---wifi--->Extender---wifi--->USB dongle-->my PC
My problem : I have a very instable connection and suffer both disconnections and severe packet losses, making it very hard to do online gaming decently. The router is too far from my computer to wire them directly.
My question : is it possible to plug an ethernet cable from the Extender to my computer without hindering the extender's purpose as a wifi access for everyone else ? (there is an ethernet port in th extender)
It would look like
Router---wifi--->Extender---WIRED-->my PC
If yes, is there a particular protocol to follow? Let's say I'm a tech noob and all the words I know about networks are here in my post