How to get wifi in a room that has an ethernet cable?

AlanS86

Essentially I have a well insulated room that kills the wifi signal. Take one step outside the room and it's at full strength.

There is however an ethernet cable in the room connected directly to the router. Is there a single device that can connect to that ethernet cable to provide wifi in the room   multiple ethernet connections?

I've tried a powerline adapter but the cabling in the house must be terrible as it reduces speeds to about 0.1% of what it should be. A wifi extender isn't going to help either as the wifi reaches but is blocked by the insulation in the walls.

I bet this is really simple but any help would be much appreciated, it's driving me crazy!

Blueacewe

Get an Access Point and plug in the Ethernet cable.
You can find dozens of Access Points on Amazon.

Some WiFi routers can easily be used as access points so you might be able to reuse an old router.

AlanS86

Wow, thank you for such a quick response!

That's exactly what I was after

mickevh

If you want a combination AP ethernet switch, then a "crippled" SOHO router can do the job in a single box, (some of the newer ones these day offer such an "AP" mode in their UI.) There's a few hoops to jump through to "cripple" such a router to achieve the desired operation, but it's not hard and there's an FAQ on the subject pinned in this forum - "Using Two Routers together." It's a quite a long thread at time of posting but there's no need to read it all - the first few entries should get you up and running.

If you want to save the cost of another router, maybe try asking around friends family and colleagues at work and see if anybody has an old one they don't want that they are willing to donate. However, one wouldn't expect such a donation to offer the latest fastest Wi-Fi standards (AC at time of posting) but you might find something that's good enough.