Home Network connecting to more than 1 wired client

[ColinBanks]

Hi,

I'm looking for assistance with a home network please.

I have FTTH and am using the Huawei HG659 Media Router which is located in my study. This router provides 2.4GHz and 5GHz wireless connectivity pretty much throughout my house. The challenge I have is that I have a couple of devices (BluRay Player and Yamaha Amp) that need a LAN cable to connect to the internet. These devices are all in the same location in my TV room. I cannot run ethernet to the TV room so I currently have a TP-Link WA850RE Range extender in my TV-room which is connected to one of these devices (the Yamaha amp). I would however like to have both the bluray player and the amp connected to the internet. Can I connect the TP-Link WA850RE Range Extender to an unmanaged switch i.e 5-Port Gigabit Desktop Switch TL-SG1005D or is there a product (not necessarily TP-Link) that can accept a wifi signal and extend that signal to more than 1 wired connection?

Thanks

 

[henry1103]

This should work just fine:
devices -> multi-lan switch -> range extender

if your range extender has more than 1 ethernet port, you can just connect them directly to the range extender.

 

[FLHEM]

Just try a simple 5 porg swich. Gigabit wil NOT be necessary in this case, and your only gonna spend about R200. Also, I would recommend you rather use Powerline instead of a Wifi extender.

 

[ColinBanks]

Just try a simple 5 porg swich. Gigabit wil NOT be necessary in this case, and your only gonna spend about R200. Also, I would recommend you rather use Powerline instead of a Wifi extender.

Thanks for the advise on the Powerline adapters rather than extender. One additional question that I have is possibly just due to my lack of understanding of how these powerline adapters work. These are possibly questions I should ask an electrician but maybe you have the answer. Does it matter if I have 3 phase circuitry in my house. Do the adapters need to be on the same phase/circuit?

Thanks again for your help.

 

[FLHEM]

Thanks for the advise on the Powerline adapters rather than extender. One additional question that I have is possibly just due to my lack of understanding of how these powerline adapters work. These are possibly questions I should ask an electrician but maybe you have the answer. Does it matter if I have 3 phase circuitry in my house. Do the adapters need to be on the same phase/circuit?

Thanks again for your help.

Sorry, but I am not sure about this. I think it does need to be on the same circuit to work properly, but I could be wrong.

 

[ColinR]

Do the adapters need to be on the same phase/circuit?

They do.

 

[ODTech]

Just try a simple 5 porg swich. Gigabit wil NOT be necessary in this case, and your only gonna spend about R200. Also, I would recommend you rather use Powerline instead of a Wifi extender.

Powerline is not always the best especialy in old houses.

 

[ColinBanks]

Powerline is not always the best especialy in old houses.

Thanks ODTech. I'm seeing different opinions on this the more I research. In some of these forums it mentioned that guys connected without problems across different circuits and even phases while others couldn't connect at all. Looks like it will be a trial and error exercise for me.

Thanks for the help.

 

[ODTech]

Thanks ODTech. I'm seeing different opinions on this the more I research. In some of these forums it mentioned that guys connected without problems across different circuits and even phases while others couldn't connect at all. Looks like it will be a trial and error exercise for me.

Thanks for the help.

In once case i had a mikrotik SXT powersupply interfere with two tenda adapters and completely disrupt the signal.
If the PSU's were unplugged the adapters would connect and all is fine again.

 

[ASJC]

I had the same situation and used and old Linksys WRT54G router and flashed it with DD-WRT. Then configured the Linksys as a WIFI bridge to my existing WIFI SSID.