Connecting my PC with Ethernet cable using deco pod ?

Connecting my PC with Ethernet cable using deco pod ?

Connecting my PC with Ethernet cable using deco pod ?
Connecting my PC with Ethernet cable using deco pod ?
Thursday
Model: Deco X50  
Hardware Version:
Firmware Version: 2.0.10

Hi !


Kinda struggling here and fairly new with the whole mesh system. My PC has a terrible built in wifi chipset and I went from cable internet to optic fiber. The cable box was next to my PC so everything was plugged in with ethernet cable and I had a separate router acting as an AP that had better wifi than the built in combo unit my ISP gave me.


Now my new ISP provided me with a X50 Deco pod and their modem. Their pod is better than my Archer AX20, so I'm using it as my router right now. It's a small condo but I can't pass an ethernet cable through the entrance closet (where the ONT is located). Most of my devices get 450mbps out of 500 mbps available by using the wifi but my PC struggles like crazy to even get to a constant 80 mbps. I didn't upgrade to fiber to have less speed than my cable ISP , while paying more. Every device is benefiting from the ISP upgrade except the most important one, my PC.

 

It's a concrete condo, can't pass an ethernet cable through , the girlfriend doesnt want a ceiling ethernet cable, so I'm down to 2 options. Powerline or finding some way to get the wifi signal into ethernet with an adapter. This is where I'm super loss and can't seem to find the right information online.


Is it possible to use an other Deco x50 for example to use as a bridge next to my PC and plug my PC to one of its ethernet cable ? Every time I searched for Deco Pods Wifi to Ethernet, I only get results referring to the ethernet backhaul to connect them all together, but that's not what I wanna do. If it's faisable, I would just add one pod next to my PC to grab the wifi signal and turn it into an ethernet connection. I do have amazing coverage through my condo, so I find it pricy to add a pod just for that.

 

TL;DL - Are there devices from TP (Deco pods, wifi adapter, etc..) outside of powerline adapters that could turn the wifi signal close to my PC into an ethernet AP for it ? I tried googling and it got overwhelming and confusing, so I'm turning to you guys after at least having tried to solve it by myself.

 

PS. Can't add a PCI wifi card to my current PC, no PCI slot available.


Thank you

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Re:Connecting my PC with Ethernet cable using deco pod ?
Friday

  @Barel 

 

There may be one more option. You said you had cable Internet with cable box near PC. It means, you have TV cable terminating near PC. 

 

If other end of this TV cable is near X50 Pod, you can use TV cable to create gigabit Ethernet link over it, with proper adapters. That Ethernet link will connect your PC to X50 with gigabit speed, as reliable as Ethernet cable. 

 

Let me know if you do have TV cable that way in your condo and I'll give you info in regard to adapters. 

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Re:Connecting my PC with Ethernet cable using deco pod ?
Friday

  @Alexandre. 

 

If you were thinking MoCa , it's a no go sadly. There's no coaxial cable near my optic fiber modem. It's like in a remote weird closest where they brought up the fiber for all the condos :(

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Re:Connecting my PC with Ethernet cable using deco pod ?
Friday

  @Barel 

 

Too bad you can't use MoCA, it works very well.

 

Your two options are exactly as you outlined them: powerline adapters or Satellite Deco X50 to which PC will be connected by Ethernet cable. Yes, you can deploy additional X50 (which will be called Satellite Deco) connected wirelessly to Main Deco X50, and have PC hardwired to Satellite Deco. This should work just fine.

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Re:Connecting my PC with Ethernet cable using deco pod ?
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  @Alexandre.


So just to be clear, the x50 AX3000 can do Wireless Bridge mode in AP mode ? I was hoping to get just an adapter wifi to ethernet without the extender option just to save money. I dont need the wifi signal to be amplified, just "caught" and redirected in LAN.

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