How do you set up your networks? I'm not sure where to start.

I've been mining SHA-256 on some Block Erupters and Antminer U2's on an old laptop using WiFi since March, I started getting into Scrypt and introduced quite a few more old laptops, all of them are running Scrypt on the GPU and X11 on the CPU.

I've decided I have made enough that I'm going to dump some real coin on this and buy a few Antminer S3's and GridSeed G-Blades. I'm going to use all Corsair power supplies because the internet tells me mining hardware likes them and it's all going to be controlled with two Raspberry Pi's and USB hubs.

I know the most common way is to run ethernet, split it with an ethernet switch and play from there, but, we don't have a furnace or ducting, it's all baseboard heaters so there is no ducting to run ethernet cables cleanly.

What I'm thinking is to some way take our existing WiFi signal that all of my old laptops have been running on for almost a year, get some kind of router to accept that WiFi signal, allow me to run ethernet out of it, then into an ethernet switch and from that point, run all of this just like the many builds I've seen around here.

I'm trying to eliminate the hardwire ethernet from the main router, to the switch, and replace it with some kind of backwards router, that accepts wifi signal, and then lets me run ethernet out of it

Is this possible? Is it a real thing or do I really need to run some ethernet cables around the door ways and drill some holes in the walls?

What's your network setup, I'm looking for ideas to keep the ethernet runs short.

Thanks for any help.

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