Need to know if this can be done....

I work from home using a laptop. My employer requires a hard-wired connection while I'm working, but my husband would like to be able to use his laptop at the same time. We have a DSL/cable connection.

I set up a wireless router and had both laptops and a wireless printer set up on a network, thinking I could just disable the wireless on my computer when I needed to work and run an ethernet cable from the router to my computer.

I was unable to connect in the my work server with that setup, and tech support told me I had to bypass the wireless router while I was working.

So - is it possible to set up the wireless router in another room where the cable coax is by splitting that incoming somehow. That way I could work hardwired in the office and he would still be able to use his computer?

I've spoken to someone at CompUSA and they had no idea. The cable company is telling me I would have to have a separate internet connection set up.

 

Try setting you computer's IP in DMZ on the router.