Here's an easy solution:
The person who told you that the router had to be on the "main line" and not an "extension" is wrong.
All phone lines in your house are the same, there is no physical difference between the original one that the phone company installed, and any that were added later.
If you have a phone line in the room where your computer is, move the router there. Then plug your computer into the router via a wire, not WiFi.
Be aware that the installer may have placed line filters on the phone lines in your house except for the one where the router is plugged in. This is normal. Just be sure to unplug the line filter from the jack that you want to plug the router into.
The line filter is just for the jacks that have phones on them. It filters out the modem noise so that you don't hear it when using the phone.
rogerX
--- In simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com, "chris259s" <C259s@...> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> My desktop computer does not have internal WIFI. So, when my new router/modem with WIFI was installed it had to be in the room next door so that it was installed into the primary telephone point and not an extension.
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> So, I had to buy a USB WIFI stick. Distance is not a problem as the computer is literally on the other side of the wall from the modem but I frequently get the message that a USB device has stopped working. This always refers to the USB WIFI. Rebooting cures the problem. I have tried different USB sockets with no change.
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> This never happens with my laptop which has integral WIFI. So, I am assuming that it is a known problem with USB WIFI.
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> Is there a solution? My computer is HP Compaq Pressario new last August with Windows 7. Would it be possible to install an internal WIFI and would this be likely to solve the problem?
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> Thanks,
> Chris
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