The scenario is as follows:
A typical Small Business setting inside a big building that houses other Small Businesses. We are allotted a small office within that large building. That area has ethernet sockets on the walls. When you plug in your computers into those sockets via a patch cable, you get a working internet connection.
My manager has asked me to buy a router (Netgear Nighthawk) so that we can have a small WiFi network in that office.
A few questions:
- What connection typically comes out of that ethernet wall socket? I typically don't have access to talk to the network administrator because he's rarely there, so the network setup behind that socket is unknown to me.
- Could I just plug in a patch cable into the WAN port of that router, then plug that router into the ethernet wall socket and plug a laptop into one of the router's LAN ports and that laptop would then have internet access?
A typical Small Business setting inside a big building that houses other Small Businesses. We are allotted a small office within that large building. That area has ethernet sockets on the walls. When you plug in your computers into those sockets via a patch cable, you get a working internet connection.
My manager has asked me to buy a router (Netgear Nighthawk) so that we can have a small WiFi network in that office.
A few questions:
- What connection typically comes out of that ethernet wall socket? I typically don't have access to talk to the network administrator because he's rarely there, so the network setup behind that socket is unknown to me.
- Could I just plug in a patch cable into the WAN port of that router, then plug that router into the ethernet wall socket and plug a laptop into one of the router's LAN ports and that laptop would then have internet access?