Homehub via home LAN CAT5 network to wireless sign...

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone could give me some advice. I have a BT Home Hub which is fine but the wireless signal is very poor at the furthest point away in my house (3 Story house) :/
However I do have Cat5 Lan networking throughout the house, I would still like to use laptop wirelessly on the though on the third floor without moving the HUB from the ground floor.
Is there a bit of equipment I can connect to my LAN network (taking a cable from the hub into my cat5 Lan network) then a cable out of the LAN socket at the far end of the house....and into some sort of signal booster or repeater??
Anyone tried this before or know what I would need??......or if there would be any problem with it?
I look forward to you advice!
Thank you in advance,
Si.

Yes, no reason why not.
When you initially connect it to your network it will pick up an ip address via dhcp from the hub, login to the hub and find the access points ip address. Using that ip address type that into a browser and should get the access points web interface, first thing to do is to change it's ip address from dhcp to static and use something in the upper range of the hub's dhcp scope, Jarvisier recommends 192.168.1.175, you'll also need to add subnet 255.255.255.0 and a gateway of 192.168.1.254 (Hub's address).
Then set up ssid and network key, you can set this up the same as the hubs' if you want to (not necessary), but it means if you take your laptop downstairs whilst still connected then you won't get a loss of connectivity from the network. Obviously you'll need to click save or apply or reboot depends on the access point so that all the settings are stored.
Once done power cycle the access point, login into the hub and under home networking the access point should be displayed with a static ip address, and you should then be able to connect your laptop.

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