[mrkajz44]

I'll start this by saying I'm not overly tech savvy with internet stuff, so if this sounds really basic it's probably because it is.

The wifi in our bonus room upstairs is just okay, and that was after installing a booster on our main floor since the router is in the basement. It has been passable. However, I've started trying to play some online games on the PS4 and the lag is a bit too much to be fully enjoyable. The wifi is good for about 90% of gametime, but it can get spicy the other 10% of the time and makes the experience much less enjoyable.

I know that a wired connection is the obvious solution here, but we don't have any wired options in that room. However, I noticed that our Telus 4k box seems to use an ethernet cable. It seems that a coax cable comes from the wall and into some sort of conversion box. The ethernet cable then comes out of the conversion box into the 4k box. I was thinking of just using this ethernet cable to run a wired connection for the PS4 when I needed it as I wouldn't be using the cable box at the same time. A few questions:

1) Is this something that would even work? Again, I know very little about this stuff, but it seems like it might?

2) I'm assuming anytime the cable box is unplugged from the internet it won't work at all for things like recordings. Is that right? Can I somehow set up a wifi back-up for then it's unplugged? Missing series recordings is a problem I'd want to avoid

3) Any other ideas for fixing up this problem? I doubt I'll end up playing this game for that long - I usually log a few months on a game and then move on, so I don't want to do anything too drastic