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O.K, I have a wifi router in the house, my studio is 1/10 of a mile away. My router wouldn't reach that far and neither would a booster so I ran cable out there and put a second wifi router in the studio. Well, neither one would work after that. AT&T (ISP)said it they would cancel each other out. (Both were from them). My question is, can you run a hard wired modem and a wifi on the same line or will I still have the same cancelling problems? They could tell which one I had hooked up and I'm under the impression they didn't like the idea of me having two of their routers even though I paid for them.

I can't just plug into my laptop as all I have is an ethernet port.
 
That BS Billy
You can use multiple routers in the same house.
You just can name them the same.
Just re read the post
I might have misspoke.
I have no idea what a hard wired modem is.You know it is real, I mean "REAL" easy to add ends to a cat 5 wire.
 
Usually a hard wired modem is internal in the computer and a phone wire just plugs in the back. If that's what your talking about, make sure the baud rate is up to snuff! You would probably want the highest one you can get. I have no idea how that would affect the wireless though.PJ
 
My wifi modem also has hardwire inputs, but those are RJ-45 (cat 5). I'm confused by the whole phone jack thing.
 
GregW said:
My wifi modem also has hardwire inputs, but those are RJ-45 (cat 5). I'm confused by the whole phone jack thing.
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I do not have a port that will accept a phone cord straight in. In other words, if I do have whatever modem I need in my laptop I am unable to hook it to the phone line as I don't have a phone jack in my laptop in which to hook said line into.
 
So your computer does not have a cat 5 port . So you only do wifi.
Then what you need to do is run a cat 5 cable from your house to the "shed" and install another wireless router.

I just looked up your laptop and it says it has a Lan port.
So therefore it has a cat5 port
 
Funny, I never noticed that this new laptop I'm on now has no port for a common phone line! Using wireless for everything I just never gave it a thought. My HP desktop tower has every port imaginable, including 6 USB ports! It also has an internal modem, but I use it on the wireless network. PJ
 
Paul- you're talking about a cat3 port , correct?
 
Haven't seen a cat3 port on a computer in a while. Didn't even think they still used it
 
CAT-3 ports are pretty much phased out by now.

If you want to put a router in the workroom, run a CAT-5 cable between the two routers' LAN ports, but ahead of that get into the admin menu of the "second one" and change its settings to be a different IP than the usual default 192.168.1.1, put a 10 in the last octet.

And look up the proper way of putting RJ-45 ends on a twisted pair CAT-5 cable. It ain't rocket surgery but it needs to be CORRECT to work.
 
Well it's about time doc.
I'm floundering here.
So you can add a cat5 end to a cable RJ45? interesting
So there you go Billy.
A couple of different options
and here is a pic
View attachment 32562
 
I use T568A for LAN cabling in my clients' installs.

EDIT: Home Despot has the stuff but Grainger's is a better source. The QC on the HD terminals is kinda "iffy." And the crimp tool there is a joke.
 
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DNK said:
Well it's about time doc.
I'm floundering here.
So you can add a cat5 end to a cable RJ45? interesting
So there you go Billy.
A couple of different options
and here is a pic
View attachment 32562
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LOL, I know it has that. That's what I've been saying all along. I don't have a cat5 cable END on the other end of the cable. Remember when I ran the lineout there with that special cable from the phone co that had jelly in it? That's what I'm using. I put another router out there and neither the inside nor outside would work together. ATT said no way, they cancel each other but I thik their stuff maybe rigged to do that.

My question is, if I put the correct end on the cable to fit in the port Don pictured will that be all I need and if so, will that still work while the other wifi inside is stll hooked up?
 
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