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Can I use two broadband routers from 1 telephone line?

  • 06-09-2010 09:32AM
    #1
    leinster__fan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24 ✭


    I have my router next to my PC but it is a crap part of the house to give me wireless upstairs. QUESTION 1 Is it possible for me to have a second router coming from the same telephone line to use just for the wireless?
    I happen to have a 2nd router sitting there, so no costs involved. (it is not an option to run a really long ethernet cable to my PC, which would be the ideal solution).
    Question 2 If I do this, does it halve the line speed to my wireless router when my PC router is turned on? and vice versa. Question 3 Or does this happen anyway when two peole are logged on to my existing modem (1 by ethernet and 1 by wireless)


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  • #2
    bhickey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,340 ✭✭✭bhickey


    Q1
    Q2 see Q1
    Q3 see Q1

    You can connect one router to the other via an ethernet cable (or via wireless depending on the make/model of the routers) but only one router can connect to the phone line.


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