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How to hook up my netflix roku to my tv via dsl?

• I have a standard pc with a router not wireless. I want to hook up my netflix roku in the living room to my tv. I do have a phone line that goes to the tv. how do I do this. Can I purchase a wired not wireless router and conect it to the roku and or do I have to go wireless and run off the main computer?

• Answer:

  Where is your DSL modem located? Near the PC? Near the point where phone/DSL enters the home? Location will determine what the best course of action is. Also, how are the phone lines laid out? Do they all run back to the entry point? Or are some of them daisy-chained, with multiple phones on a single branch? This will also affect how you run things if you plan on hard-wiring the Roku. Reusing the phone line at the TV is not as easy as you'd think. You need to see if the connector at the wall is RJ-45, that it's CAT5 cabling, and that it leads to a point where you could then run it to your router. If you have structured wiring in your home, you have fighting chance of getting it right. If you don't have it or don't know what I'm talking about, you've got a lot of work to figure it out. The easiest, least-painful approach would be to set up a wireless router next to the DSL modem, if the modem doesn't already have one built in. Then you can share the internet connection between the PC (wired) and the Roku (wireless). And you or a friend could use the wireless router later for WiFi on a laptop.