[Nathans_Dad]

Hello again all, I am in Dallas/Fort Worth for good now and so will be checking the forums again (collective groan noted).

Here is my question. Our house is pre-wired with what looks like Cat-5 cable. It is all fed into an Open House hub, but when I look at it all there is is a telephone hub with about 10 cables coming out of it and a Coax hub. There are some more cat5 cables hanging loose. Now then, here is my problem:

I have DSL into the house which has a modem hooked into the phone line. I have that then hooked into a wireless router upstairs. The router kindof needs to stay up there because I have my XBOX 360 hooked into it with a cable and I do not have the wireless attachment for the 360 (nor do I reallly want to buy one). My iMac has built in wireless and could connect just fine in my old house.

In the new house the iMac is only getting 2/5 bars on the AirPort. I can transfer data ok, but sometimes the internet is slow and I am wondering if the low reception might be part of the problem. I was wondering if there was a way to take the output from the DSL modem and plug it into one of the empty Cat5 jacks and try to hard wire the iMac into the router that way. I have a toner and tried to tone out the jack but got zippo signal in the office.

Any ideas on this kind of stuff?