On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 12:29:53PM -0000, Ted Harding wrote:
On 21-Dec-07 10:49:08, Barry Samuels wrote:
[...] I'm going to run a new telephone cable across the attic and down into the room with the HomePlug unit and move the router into that room which means that we have to either use wireless to connect my Wife's machine or try and use an existing telephone cable as a network cable to connect to her machine.
I have no means of testing the wireless connection between the rooms upstairs as I don't have a long enough ethernet cable to try it. I can put the WAP into that room and scan for a signal which is what those figures were all about.
I hope that all makes sense.
-- Barry Samuels
Barry, if you're going to run a cable anyway, might you not be able to put in a proper ethernet cable?
I don't know what the longest is that you can readily buy "off the shelf", but probably you can find a long enough one. I think I've seen 20m cables on sale and maybe longer
You can definitely buy 30 metre ones and probably longer.
Or you can get female<-->female RJ45 connectors