okay someone help me out

i have fios right now and i had them install it in a spare bedroom i was using as my office. but now that we need it for my daughter i have to move the computer. i do not have access to the fiber optic cable to move things and they want a fortune to do it for me.

my plans are to leave the linksys router and motorola nim (for tv guide and on demand etc) where they are and move the setup to another area of the house. i am going to get another linksys and put wrt firmware on it to use as a access point for the other part of the house.. am i correct in needing a ap or do i need a repeater?? its been a long time since i did a lot of networking.

now my other issues is my fax machine. i was thinking of using one of those wireless phone jack setups but has anyone used the for fax?? ive used them for phone use and they work decent but this would have to be able to transmit fax over the wireless phone jacks.. any ideas if they work ok for that. i know i can climb in the attic (which we really dont have and man its rough to have to shimmey through there, there is next to no room up there) and run new wires (i wired the whole house when we bought it for in wall speakers in every room) but id prefer to just plug these in if they will work for the 30$....


any other suggestions for me??

thanks

 

We need to know more about which linksys router you have now. Is it wireless or wired?

If it is already wireless why do you need another--poor signal? If it is not wireless you need to set up your new one as an access point.

If it is wireless and you are trying to extend the signal, it is technically bridging using WDS (wireless distribution service)

 

You have several options.

If your luck enough your wireless may reach the room with out any issues, then just wireless to connect the computer.

You can leave your setup (FIOS Hardware & fax) where it is and use a cat5e cable to the other bedrooms. At the other BR you can setup a router as a AP. This will give her wireless and wired connections. As to moving the FIOS transeivers there locked in place due to the FO lines and hardware. It will be real expensive moving these due to trenching.

Have you contacted Verizon for adding another drop? There installers are use to this kind of installation. Most have the long fiber glass cable pullers that are used to snake wires up from limited access space (outside walls). If you have them out, let them wire your complete house, any where you think you will need internet or TV. Pick your drops in inside walls, a lot easier to get wires down through. Depending on where your hardware is , you may able to snake it into a closet then go up to the attic getting away from the outside walls. You have one of the older setups, now they use a Actiontec router instead of router and nim. If they come out and do the drop they may upgrade your system. At least that what the did with a neighbor of mine.

Another option is to use a powerline carrier. These are device that use your house wiring for ethernet, require 1 oneach end. They work better than wireless (11g) when it come to speed. http://shop3.frys.com/product/4894430?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG

I never have used one of the wireless phone lines, but should not be any problem. Fax baud rates are very low.

If you go the wireless way I would not use 11g, use 11n if possiable. The reason why is when your setup a BRIDGE you loose 1/2 your bandwidth. You can not go from AP to AP, this setup is called a bridge. You can use a repeater but then again these are used to extend the range of a wireless and you loose bandwidth.

Bite the bullet an run a cat5e cable to the new location. With the weather cooling off it will not be bad in the attics now. You will thank your self later.

 

yeah what i was hoping to do is leave the router which is a wrt150n being used as both wired and wireless right now where it is.. then simply add another one on the other side of the house where the computer and printer will be installed. i know i can add a wireless card in the computer and run it wireless but that doesn't solve the problem of the printer which right now is a network printer using a lan port on the 150n. it have ethernet but no wireless and its a hp color officejet all in one so im not replacing it.

already spoke with verizon and NO WAY im paying them what they want to come move the drop for me..

everything is n based now anyway..

 

Would it be possible to stick the printer on its own wireless print server, which would then communicate with the rest of the network via the wireless router?

That's the setup I've been using for the last year with no problems, although not from across different sides of the house.

 

hmm not sure.. ill look into that

 

The wireless print server I've been using is the Netgear WGPS606.

About the only trouble I ever had with it was when I was using a Belkin wireless router - the wireless print server would get "lost" every once in a while and I would have to power it off and back on. Once I switched to a Netgear router, I've not had a single problem with it.