Setting up net

Hey,
OK heres my problem.
I want to set up the internet on my laptop in my study (where there is a phone line) but I have a wireless modem plugged in at the other side of the house not far from my main pc (which uses the wireless card because there is no phone line near it).

The wireless does not reach the laptop in the study but there is a phone line next to it. Is there a way that I can use that phone line to connect to the modem at the other end of the house? Heres a crappy drawing of it.

Please be detailed in your answer.

 

Put the modem next to the phone and connect it to the PC with an ethernet cable, buy a repeater which boost's the signal strength or buy a better router, maybe one of those 802.11n routers there made for sending hi-def content around the house.

 

Alternatively, Ethernet over power (homeplug stuff) should also work

 

They also have that to send Ethernet over phone lines. i know most 2wire routers have that ability built in. and netgear sold (no longer) adapters to do this.

 

That's called ADSL. Or the internet.

 

No, I have dsl, and they both use the same concept but one is use for the internet and the other is used for lan.

 

This is what i have/meant.
http://reviews.cnet.com/adapters-nics/netgear-pa101-10-mbps/4505-3380_7-1459856.html

 

Another option is the mains-version of that phone-line jobby - much more versatile too.

 

Option 1: Buy a better wireless router - eg http://www.netgear.com/Products/RoutersandGateways/RangeMaxWirelessRoutersandGateways/DG834PN.aspx - which uses 6 internal arials to give the best possible signal
Option 2: buy a repeater to boost the wireless strength.
Option 3: Use "Ethernet Over Power" network solution
Option 4: wire in some good old Cat 5e cable around the house, in the walls, through the roof, under the carpet. Nothing like wires

Hope this helps

 

Or a better antenna/directional one.
Even a cantenna.

 

I have a feeling he's scratching his head saying "What?!" now.

Anyway I'll add to it.

You can buy a cheap wireless access point and set it up to be a relay. There is usually a setting somewhere called WDS (Wireless Distribution System), and the new access point will connect to the old one and relay the signal to your laptop.

This works really really well provided the relay is close enough to the original access point to at least get a good signal (access points seem to get a better reception than clients anyway).

How do I know this? Well, I used to steal internet from a guy across the road while I was switching from cable to adsl2+. And before anyone whacks me with the moral stick, I asked him and he said he's fine with it as long as I set up encryption on it after I'm done