Ethernet to WiFi and Ethernet

kirkofski

Our router is in one corner of the house and can't be moved. We have an ethenet cable running from the router to the opposite corner of the house where I have an X-Box and smart TV. The X-Box has the ethenet cable plugged in and the TV is on WiFi but struggling for signal. 
Is there something I can buy that will take the ethernet signal and supply me 2 ethernet outputs along with generating WIFI for that side of the house where signal is weak?

Thanks

Neil_Jones

You could get a network switch which will allow you to use the TV and the X-Box wired.  Then you wouldn't need the Wi-fi of the TV.

Something like: https://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-LINK-LS1005-Wallmount-Ethernet-SPLITTER/dp/B07XSCDWQ4

You connect the cable from the router to any of these ports then connect the X-Box to another port and the TV to another port.  That's it.  It just works.

Linton

A 2 unit TPLINK mesh network should do the job. It seems they have 2 Ethernet ports. There are many equivalent systems around but for example the BT system only has one.

See https://www.tp-link.com/uk/home-networking/deco/deco-m5/ and then look on Amazon, other suppliers are available.

IvanOpinion

There are also inexpensive wifi boosters/range extenders ... I use one to boost the signal into my garden.

mgfvvc

I think you just need a fairly basic Wireless Access Point, but a lot of cheap ones (and some expensive ones) are just wireless with only one ethernet port. This Zyxel WAP looks as though it has 5 LAN ports, from the pictures, bur the specification says "2 x 100Base-TX - RJ-45". The Draytek Vigor AP-810 is more expensive but definitely has 4 100Mb ethernet ports.

ARH_2

You may be able to achieve this with a old router you might have lying around.

It'd take some fiddling around with settings, and probably putting custom firmware on it, which is only possible with routers provided by some ISPs.

Various guides are available online - you can see what's involved, and will probably decide that one of the reasonably priced products in the other posts is a more reliable and straightforward way to go. 

kirkofski

Thanks everyone. As advised above we just picked up a WiFi extender from Argos and the TV is now running off it, signal is tines better. The wifes phone also now has full signal in the bedroom when before she had almost none.

I actually tried using a second EE routed we had as an extension but couldn't get it running.