right guys, in my house my sitting room is up stairs where my xbox 360 is. and down stairs is where the girlfriends laptop is in the kitchen, we havent gone wireless as for some reason the connection keeps cutting, anyway whenever i want to go online gaming i have to wait for her to stop playing bloody online bingo

, or whatever it is she does. i have a bt router next to my xbox which has the ethernet cable going to it, will i have to get a really long ethernet cable to run from the laptop to the router?? please help