Hi!

Hoping someone can help me out here please?

In work my router is about 30 metres from my computer as that is where the phone line is. My computer is connected to the web via a long cat5 cable.
This is great, but my phone has trouble connecting wirelessly to the router as the range is maxed out due to thick walls etc.

Am I able to use an old wireless router at the pc end of the cat5 cable, daisy chain my computer to this via cat5 cable and the enable the wireless network on the old router therefore having 2 wireless networks, one in the old part of the building and one in the new part?

Cheers

ive no idea about that, but if it dont work can you use them things that do network through mains sockets and wires?

Cheers for reply dave. I have those home plug things at home and they work really well.
I don't think they will work in this case as the old part of the building is on a different consumer unit?

I've discovered this during my google search though so it does seem like it can work

Yes it will work I've done it many many tmies before. It's best to disable DHCP on the 2nd router to avoid IP confilicts etc, and make sure it's setup on the same IP range but has a different IP to the main router, I often use:

Main broadband router IP: 192.168.0.1
2nd router IP: 192.168.0.254

then set the DHCP range on the main router to use a range in the middle.

Cheers for that. I must have struck lucky as I took a bt business hub, changed the settings on it to bridge mode, and it all worked great with no other messing.

I did notice that the bt business hub did tell me that if I were to enable bridge mode it would change the ip address to 192.168.0.254 automatically so this helped me out I suppose.

anyway, thanks to you both. Case closed.