{"id":8914,"date":"2021-11-30T09:45:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T09:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=8914"},"modified":"2021-11-30T09:46:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T09:46:35","slug":"voip-phone-router-set-up-complication","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/networking\/voip-phonerouter-setup-complication\/47053.html","title":{"rendered":"VOIP Phone\/Router Set-Up Complication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a remote worker and have just been sent a VOIP phone(Mitel 5312 IP Phone)\/router (linksys Wireless G 2.4GHz Broadband Router: Model WRT54G) to set-up to take phone calls from work.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is, my home internet router(2Wire Gateway Model:2701HG-B wireless router from AT&amp;T;) is currently plugged into a wall jack downstairs with my &#8220;main&#8221; personal computer while my workstation, which is a laptop with a docking station, is upstairs in my office, simply using a wireless connection to the router downstairs.<\/p>\n<p>The VOIP phone instructions suggest that the only way I can make this work is if I move my workstation downstairs so that I can plug into that active wall jack, but I obviously don&#8217;t want to do that if I don&#8217;t have to.<\/p>\n<p>Is there a way to somehow set up my VOIP phone\/work router upstairs in my office so that it wirelessly connects to my personal\/home router downstairs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":1},"question-category":[49],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-8914","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-networking"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/8914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=8914"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=8914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}