I've recently moved house, and was delighted to find that the house was already wired with CAT-5e cable in a few rooms, plus a neat little patch-panel in the office!
Unfortunately though, the place where the internet enters the house (i.e. where I need to put the modem) is nowhere near where the patch panel is. I've had a cable guy come out today and he's basically said there's no (easy) way that the connection point can be moved to the office. I also can't (easily) run another network cable from the modem to the patch panel.
So instead, what I want to know is - is there a device I can use that's effectively a network switch, but the incoming signal comes via wifi? i.e. I want the device to be on my wifi network, and then act as a switch so I can plug it into the patch panel. I appreciate that this means I'll be sharing the network bandwidth but I have an AC router so hopefully bandwidth won't be an issue.
Hope that makes sense!