Hello
I am looking for some advice on the best way to set up my cable TV and internet. I live in Belgium, and the TV is supplied by Belgacom.
The cable modem / router combination (which has wifi) is plugged into the WAN socket in the downstairs hallway.
The cable TV decoder is in the living room (adjacent to the hallway), and I do not want to drill holes for cabling.
Floors in the house are concrete, with the result that the wifi signal upstairs is too weak to be at all reliable. I will soon have an iMac in the study upstairs which will need a wired connection.
I had thought that homeplugs would be the solution for everything, but then realised that to have tv and Internet being transmitted that way I would need two sets of plugs.
Would there be any way to pass the tv signal from cable modem to cable box via a wireless bridge (independent of the WAN), and use homeplugs for the internet (thinking of the Devolo dLAN AV500+ wifi kit, to allow for wired connection to the iMac upstairs and wifi for iPads, phones etc)?
Thanks in advance
I am looking for some advice on the best way to set up my cable TV and internet. I live in Belgium, and the TV is supplied by Belgacom.
The cable modem / router combination (which has wifi) is plugged into the WAN socket in the downstairs hallway.
The cable TV decoder is in the living room (adjacent to the hallway), and I do not want to drill holes for cabling.
Floors in the house are concrete, with the result that the wifi signal upstairs is too weak to be at all reliable. I will soon have an iMac in the study upstairs which will need a wired connection.
I had thought that homeplugs would be the solution for everything, but then realised that to have tv and Internet being transmitted that way I would need two sets of plugs.
Would there be any way to pass the tv signal from cable modem to cable box via a wireless bridge (independent of the WAN), and use homeplugs for the internet (thinking of the Devolo dLAN AV500+ wifi kit, to allow for wired connection to the iMac upstairs and wifi for iPads, phones etc)?
Thanks in advance