How to add a second router?

Question

Being sick of shaky WiFi connection to our home's main router (a Sitecom, which is far away) I've got a New Belkin router to use in my room. I have a telephone plug in my room but not sure whether it is possible to directly connect the Belkin to the plug and connect to the home's ADSL.

I am using Ubuntu, hence I cannot use the supplied Belkin installation CD, and this adds another layer of difficulty/uncertainity.

I appreciate your hints to make this work.

Thanks

Answer 1

There is some need to disambiguate different situations.

• Your phone plug is connected in parallel to the other phone plug your current router is connected too, or you need the phone line for a phone:

  No chance to use this line. Everything you connect will disturb your primary ADSL connection.

• Your phone plug ends up unconnected or in some telephone switchboard and you don't need your phone line:

  You could use your phone line for some ADSL-like connection or use some powerline-adapter which supports phone lines. Both times expected to be more expensive than a simple powerline solution as stated before.

• You've got a dedicated phone line which is directly connected to your phone company:

  Order a seperate DSL connection. I never heard of an ADSL provider allowing you to connect using different phone lines without paying multiple times.

All in all, these solutions (apart from the first) only fit in some special cases. Typically you're left with three alternatives:

• Install an ethernet cable. Best solution if possible, no additional power consumption and no problems with weak signal.
• Use some wireless extender too strengthen your wireless signal.
• Buy a powerline adaptor. Will probably work within the same flat, sometimes also the whole house. Needs some extra power, but usually is more stable than wireless networks.