Internet help.

[don27dog]

Our family is in the process of building a new modular home. After touring the factory to inspect our build last week I realized I overlooked an important design feature. I failed to wire ethernet cable to the room I want to hold my amiga's. The dsl connection connects my wife's new office on the first floor. My wife has made perfectly clear she wants my computer stuff upstairs in its own room. WiFi will cover most of my needs but I need to connect two of my amiga's to a wired connection. Is there such a thing that will receive the wifi signal and allow me to connect my amiga's with ethernet cables?

[don27dog]

Mike,
Thank you.
I just checked and I already have that exact model that I am not currently using. I will give it a try this weekend when I have a little time to play around with it.

[don27dog]

http://www.modular.org/htmlPage.aspx?name=why_modular

We chose modular to save time. Most new construction in our area takes over a year from start to finish. Our house was built in the factory in just over six weeks. While the house was being built we were able to do the site work and pour the foundation. We are scheduled to put the house on the foundation the first week of February. It will take about a month or so to hook up the electric, water, sewer, heating and air conditioning, build the porches, install tile and hardwood floors once the house is set. We hope to be fully in by April.

We worked with
 http://www.westchestermodular.com/gallery_of_homes.html

to design our own custom floor plan. The entire process was exciting and nerve wracking at the same time.

[don27dog]

If it were me doing it I'd just run all the cables before the drywall goes up, but I'd imagine you'd have to negotiate with your contractor for that - and they probably won't let you, I suspect.  Those guys can be kind of fussy depending on your relationship with them.

I'd still avoid Powerline Ethernet like the plague.  

That is my problem.. the dry wall is already up. A hard line may still be a posibility throught the air conditioning chase that runs through a closet in her office. I will explore that option when the house arrives but looking for alternative options incase it doesn't work. I am going to try flashing the router this weekend and see how that works before we start packing everything up for the move. Once the house gets here I am not going to have much time to play for a little while.

[don27dog]

I flashed the DD-WRT firmware last night and everything seems to be working fine with the routers about ten feet apart. Will have to wait and see how it works at the new house when they are further apart. Thanks again for the suggestions!