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bsabatini · 06-30-2009, 10:11 PM

Purchased a D-Link DIR-615 Wireless router so that we can have wireless Internet on one side of very large house. The whole house has Ethernet jacks in all the rooms, and the cable modem is in the basement with a switch plugged into it patching all the rooms in. If I plug my laptop into the jack in the bedroom I get Internet with no problem. I want to plug a router in there instead so that I can get wireless with the laptop in the bedroom and on that end of the house. I cannot get the Internet light to come on the router and DLink support tells me that the only way possible for me to get the Internet on the router is to connect the cable modem to the router directly. I can't do this because the modem is in the basement on the wrong side of the house. If I put the router down there the signal will not be strong enough. I just want to know if this is true or was the DLink guy wrong?

06-30-2009, 10:11 PM	#1 (permalink)
bsabatini Registered User Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1 OS: Vista	Adding D-Link Router to Home Wired with Ethernet Jacks Purchased a D-Link DIR-615 Wireless router so that we can have wireless Internet on one side of very large house. The whole house has Ethernet jacks in all the rooms, and the cable modem is in the basement with a switch plugged into it patching all the rooms in. If I plug my laptop into the jack in the bedroom I get Internet with no problem. I want to plug a router in there instead so that I can get wireless with the laptop in the bedroom and on that end of the house. I cannot get the Internet light to come on the router and DLink support tells me that the only way possible for me to get the Internet on the router is to connect the cable modem to the router directly. I can't do this because the modem is in the basement on the wrong side of the house. If I put the router down there the signal will not be strong enough. I just want to know if this is true or was the DLink guy wrong?