connecting to a second phone line for internet

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brokenbrokenrecord

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Hello-

I am trying to tap into the wifi in my house, which is coming from a router one flight up and across the house. We have a wireless extender already, but it doesn't reliably get a signal to the far corner where I am. There is, however, a live phone jack in my room, tied to the same line that the router is connected to.

Can I tap directly into this phone line for internet, or is the only option to find a way to extend the wifi from the primary router way over yonder?
 
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smorizio
look to see if you can run a wire upstairs from the basement. if you can put the modem and a switch in the basement. from the switch run wires upstairs if you can. on each floor put a ap. if you cant pick up hi powered indoor ap. the high power units are 500mw or more in power. there more powerfull then retail units. then on your pc pick up a high power 500wm wifi card or usb stick to reach the other side of the house.
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look to see if you can run a wire upstairs from the basement. if you can put the modem and a switch in the basement. from the switch run wires upstairs if you can. on each floor put a ap. if you cant pick up hi powered indoor ap. the high power units are 500mw or more in power. there more powerfull then retail units. then on your pc pick up a high power 500wm wifi card or usb stick to reach the other side of the house.
 
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Solandri

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Running an ethernet cable somehow will be best.

Powerline and MoCA are your next best choices.

There is a way to use your phone line, but it's the most expensive solution and will partly depend on your home's phone wiring. The vast majority of homes are wired up for two phone lines. If you look at a phone jack, you'll see 4 conductors. The middle 2 are phone line 1, the outer two are phone line 2.

Since your router is getting Internet via DSL, it is probably tied to phone line 1. So you can't use that. You'd have to get a VDSL extender pair, and rig it up so it'll use phone line 2. Even though you don't actually have phone service on line 2, it's still connected to all the phone jacks in your home. VDSL/VDSL2 is what hotels and apartments use to run Internet to each individual room over the phone lines because it is more reliable than powerline and uses pre-existing phone lines. But at $277 it is much more expensive than powerline or MoCA

http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-VDSL2-Ethernet-Extender-Single/dp/B002CLKFTG/
 
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