Connecting two routers to give one larger wifi zone without having an Ethernet cable link

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Khan14

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Thanks in advance for your help.

I have a wireless router (sky broadband router Sagem) connected via asdl in one corner of the house. The wifi zone keeps dropping connection in the other corner.

In the opposite corner of the house there is another phone socket so I could link up another router via separate asdl. A friend has linked two routers with an Ethernet cable to widen his wifi zone, but it is not possible to run an Ethernet wire in my house.

I have another sky broadband router, but from d-link. Is there anyway of creating one larger wifi zone with same name/password with this set up.
 
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Maybe you could use a second pair of wires to BUY a second adsl service from the phone provider but you would just have 2 networks not one.

Pretty much you can't get it to work with the equipment you have. Once you go to spending money you can use powerline extenders or maybe a wireless repeater depending on your house. If you really want it they do make devices that will let you run DSL yourself over the phone wires in your house between 2 devices but they are not devices market to the home user so they are expensive.

You could always try to use the phone wire as ethernet. Many newer houses use ethernet cable for the phone wiring. If you have 4 pair of wire it is a good bet it is ethernet cable. even if you have only 2 pair it...
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Maybe you could use a second pair of wires to BUY a second adsl service from the phone provider but you would just have 2 networks not one.

Pretty much you can't get it to work with the equipment you have. Once you go to spending money you can use powerline extenders or maybe a wireless repeater depending on your house. If you really want it they do make devices that will let you run DSL yourself over the phone wires in your house between 2 devices but they are not devices market to the home user so they are expensive.

You could always try to use the phone wire as ethernet. Many newer houses use ethernet cable for the phone wiring. If you have 4 pair of wire it is a good bet it is ethernet cable. even if you have only 2 pair it may still work... like not at full speed or anything but even if you only get 10m it is still fast enough.
 
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Powerline network may do the trick also, but will cost a bit for the hardware. Set up one side of the connection by the router, then plug in the second port by the wifi extender. These are cheap, but will limit you to 100mb wich is perfectly OK as your internet connection is probably not even half that speed http://reviews.cnet.com/bridges/trendnet-powerline-500-av/4505-3304_7-35494419.html These are higher end but larger and pricier http://reviews.cnet.com/bridges/netgear-powerline-av-500/4505-3304_7-34799068.html

There are others ofcourse, but those two are a good sample to look at.
 
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