WiFi extension question

[Carruth, Rusty]

I believe the answer is ‘yes, you can have the wifi “range extender” work that way’.

Longer answer - my daughter once had a VOIP phone that required an Ethernet cable, could not use wifi.
She only had wifi, but the company that she was working for also supplied a ‘wifi access box’ (about the size of a wall wart!, with an Ethernet jack) that she could use to ‘convert’ WiFI into wired for the phone they gave her
Worked great.  And I *think* that you weren’t limited to a single device on the wire….


Rusty

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Thanks but you can’t hook Pringle cans to things like Fire TV Sticks and Printers. :-)

Here’s the crux of the question:

If you have a WiFi range extender with an Ethernet port on it (that may or may not work as an Access Point), can you run an Ethernet cable from that range extender to the WAN port on a router and treat that the same as if it’s an internet connection on a cable modem?

So the extender talks to the distant router, then connects via Ethernet cable to the nearby router instead of a computer or printer.

-David Schwartz

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