Moving wifi router out from wiring closet but how?

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tarzan440

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My house was built wired with lan outputs to all the rooms. The wires are in a wiring box along with the security system and coaxial cable. The box is in a downstairs coat closet in the corner of the house.

I have a single port modem connected to the router. Then the Ethernet cables connected from the router to all the rooms.

The problem is my wifi is weak because it's in a closet. But if I move it out of the closet, the modem and lan ports can't connect to the router due to cord length restrictions.

My solution was to put a switch behind the modem and connect the Ethernet cords to the switch. This was before I knew that this wouldn't work because I only have one IP address and only 1 lan port would work.

So I want to move my wifi router out of the closet while also keeping all the lan ports active. How? Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.
 
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If you have coax in another room and that room can provide good wifi coverage you plan would work to move the router their and use a switch in the closet.

Nobody would put the AP in the closet. A AP is designed exactly for the need to have multiple wifi sources connected back to a single router. You could put one in every room that has a ethernet jack if you really wanted. A AP pretty much are wifi radios you hook to a ethernet cable they do not do much other than take the signal from the wifi and convert it to ethernet.
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Are you referring to something like a power line Ethernet adaptor? Can you clarify?

There is only 1 ethernet port in each room. How would I connect the Wans back to the router? Sorry I'm a noob to networking.
 
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Alabalcho

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You can still move your router somewhere else, providing that "else" has two drops down to the wiring closet:
- from modem, directly to a cable where WiFi router is going to be to its WAN port;
- from LAN port of the router back to the wiring closed on separate Ethernet cable;
- an Ethernet switch in the wiring closed connecting all remaining Ethernet cables (including one coming from the router)
 
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Wouldn't the access point have to stay in the closet as well, since the router is in the closet? Thus defeating the purpose of better wifi coverage that can be obtained outside of the closet.
 
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tarzan440

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I have an idea. Would it work if I, move the modem and router to one of the rooms, connect them up to the coaxial and lan port, then put a switch inside the wiring closet, connect the ethernet cable from the connected room where the router is, then use the switch to wire the other lan ports for other rooms?

Kinda putting everything backwards, but not sure if this would work?
 
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If you have coax in another room and that room can provide good wifi coverage you plan would work to move the router their and use a switch in the closet.

Nobody would put the AP in the closet. A AP is designed exactly for the need to have multiple wifi sources connected back to a single router. You could put one in every room that has a ethernet jack if you really wanted. A AP pretty much are wifi radios you hook to a ethernet cable they do not do much other than take the signal from the wifi and convert it to ethernet.
 
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No, an access point can be anywhere you have an ethernet cable connected back to your primary router. You said you had ehternet cabling installed into the rooms of the house. Use one of those to tie an access point to the primary router.
 
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