IT help

[FarmerPug]

Another IT question.
At my grandparents house, ie out on the farm the telephone line goes into their house and also to an office out in the yard, a concrete building. They are learning to use a computer now which is a completley different issue all together, 1 finger search then stab the key typing is executed perfectly. But they are at the stage now where they want the internet to look up the 'www dot numbers' of all these things they see, and for my granny to email her sister living in samoa. But the wifi signal is too far away. How can i bring the internet back into their house, i tried a wifi booster which did not work. But i heard of some plug in thing that uses the electric cables to extend a network, can one of them (what are they) be used and then a wireless signal emitted out of one sitting in their living room?

[sirwiggum]

Another IT question.
At my grandparents house, ie out on the farm the telephone line goes into their house and also to an office out in the yard, a concrete building. They are learning to use a computer now which is a completley different issue all together, 1 finger search then stab the key typing is executed perfectly. But they are at the stage now where they want the internet to look up the 'www dot numbers' of all these things they see, and for my granny to email her sister living in samoa. But the wifi signal is too far away. How can i bring the internet back into their house, i tried a wifi booster which did not work. But i heard of some plug in thing that uses the electric cables to extend a network, can one of them (what are they) be used and then a wireless signal emitted out of one sitting in their living room?

Possibly though be careful if they are plugged in on the same circuit as tumble driers and other high drawing devices.

If they have the phone line into the house, can you plug the ADSL modem in there and the wireless router off it?

[FarmerPug]

The wireless modem is outside in the farm office and it cant be touched unfortunatley it has to be where it is. Its a BT home hub yoke.
The electrical circuit contains tumble driers, washing machines, kettles, a few electric heaters, an electric fire etc. But its only about 20m from the office router to the living room.

[sirwiggum]

Can you run an ethernet cable those 20 metres?

Either a crossover or a crossover adaptor on a regular cable.

Then you could plug another wireless router in, the cable from the homehub goes into the "internet" socket. Just use different channels.

[FarmerPug]

It would mean crossing a concrete yard, and a lorry passes that a few times a day for deleveries so not really.

[Captain Jack]

They are called Homeplug(s). I use it to connect to the Internet from upstairs for my main PC (faster than wireless, especially for file transfers to media PC downstairs).

It goes:

Router > CAT5 > Homeplug ---- power line ---- > Homeplug > CAT5 > PC/switch

Works well enough, but in my old flat I had to reset the things every few weeks. No such issues at the new house.

The only thing you need to be aware of is that it won't work if your power line to the "shed" is taken from a different grid. It will not pass signal beyond your electric meter (think of it as a firewall).

http://www.homeplug.org/home/
eBay

There are plenty around, mainly to do with speeds supported.