How to Take Advantage of 2 ADSL Wall Jacks

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stonebonez

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Hello Folks,

I have ADSL coming into my home at 2 different wall jacks, one in the living room, 1 in my office. I used to have my modem/router located in the living room, but later moved it into my office after setting up my computer there. In my living room I now have a PS4 that's connected to my network wirelessly, and even though the wireless signal strength is great and I receive HD Netflix streams without issue, I'd rather connect my PS4 to the network via ethernet as it's more ideal for online gaming.

So my questions are, is there no way for me to take advantage of the ADSL wall jack located 1 meter from my entertainment center? Or is the only solution to run ethernet cable from the modem/router in my office to the living room? Is there a way to setup 2 gateways over a single PPPoE connection? I've been searching the internet for hours looking for a definitive answer, but no luck. I'm aware of 802.11ac devices, but these are not ideal either. If anyone could shed some light on this, or point me in the direction of a helpful article it'd be much appreciated. Thanks.
 
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You have 1 internet connection with 1 IP address, you cant have 2 gateways use the same connection. IN short this is an A or B situation, not an A and B.

You will need to run cable from office to living room.
Newer homes are wired with cat5e wiring for phones. Depending on how teh wires were setup it may be semi-easy to turn that phone cable into an ethernet cable by changing the plug at the wall and adding a switch at where your phone lines terminate.
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You have 1 internet connection with 1 IP address, you cant have 2 gateways use the same connection. IN short this is an A or B situation, not an A and B.

You will need to run cable from office to living room.
Newer homes are wired with cat5e wiring for phones. Depending on how teh wires were setup it may be semi-easy to turn that phone cable into an ethernet cable by changing the plug at the wall and adding a switch at where your phone lines terminate.
 
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There are products that allow networking over a single pair, but they are not common or widely available.

One example is this somewhat expensive kit. It's mostly intended for commercial applications (up to 1km) , and may not work well at shorter distances or if your home phone wiring has multiple branches.

If you have coax outlets available near both locations, you may want to check out MoCA devices, which are more commonly available.

As previously suggested, you may want to check if your home is wired with Cat5e or similar, or take some time to run your own network cable.
 
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boosted1g

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If were going to go down that route then could use 2 pairs for phone and 2 pairs for ethernet to have 100mbps but running an ethernet cable would be much much better.


If nothing else just get an av1000 powerline adapter to connect to living room.

Either way might as well put a gigabit switch there so you can connect more then 1 device.
 
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