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

 

find out why you keep losing your wireless mate and get a really good powerfull router when you have fixed the problem.
It's probably summat really simple knocking your wireless out.

 

How many ethernet cables can you physically fit into the router? If it is just one then I'd ring BT and ask for them to send you a new BT Home Hub.

You can then use that for wireless or failing that run ethernet from each port.

Quality of connection from such a long ethernet cable shouldn't be noticeable.

 

i have 4 ethernet ports on the back of the router. i reckon i'll need roughly 30m of cable lol

 

Umm... Try and ring BT see if they will send you a home hub for free

30m of cable around your gaff isn't great for you mate

 

Easy solution, if you want to stay away from wireless, would be connect one cable from your router to your xbox, then another cable from the router to one of these plugged into the wall;

http://www.homeplugs.co.uk/

Plug another into a plug outlet on the kitchen and connect to the laptop with ethernet cable.

Voila. Your xbox connected to the internet 24/7, and her laptop connected 24/7, and you can both go on at the same time. Sorted. And no running hugen lengths of cable round the gaff! I was gonna do the same thing, but then about 15meters of cat5 for free so didn't bother