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I am living in an apartment connected to a wireless network. I don't know anything about the physical router. There is no ethernet wall jack. Can I purchase a new router, set it up on this connection, then connect to it through an ethernet cable to attain a faster/more stable connection?

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  • You have to supply us with more information. You not knowing anything about the router, means, this question cannot be answered.
    – Ramhound
    Jun 17, 2016 at 21:53
  • I'm asking if it is possible to set up a new router on a wireless connection without knowing anything about the router that currently provides me with this wireless connection Jun 17, 2016 at 21:54
  • If you know nothing about the router then you can not purchase a router that's capatible since you don't know anything about the router or modem. It's possible to extend a network but you need to know something about the hardware on the network to do that. So find out about the hardware....
    – Ramhound
    Jun 17, 2016 at 22:03
  • What does it take for a router to be compatible in this situation? Jun 17, 2016 at 22:08
  • Knowing the make and model of the router
    – Ramhound
    Jun 17, 2016 at 22:26

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There are definitely devices that can connect a wired Ethernet device to a wireless network, but there's no reason to assume that any such device would give you a more stable connection to the wireless network than the built-in wireless interfaces on the devices you already own. The radio and antennas in such wired->wireless Ethernet adapter could be just as crappy as the radio and antennas in your laptop or tablet or smartphone.

The only clear advantage of using such a device is when the place you like to sit when working on your laptop is a place where the signal is poor. You could position the wired->wireless Ethernet adapter in a place where you know it always gets good signal, and then run a long Ethernet cable from it to wherever you want to sit when actually working on your laptop.

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