How to forum: How do i stream from my DSL desktop to a different room?

Thankyou for your reply and i will go ahead and try what you suggest when i move my pc to another room in a couple of days. I will say though that a few years ago the desktop was situated in the kitchen but i DID have to pay my local phone company to come and move the wires in the phone jack when i re-located the pc to my spare room. So naturally i assumed that i'd have to do the same thing each and everytime should i want to move it again to a different room in my home. When i called them recently to schedule a tech to come out i was told that it would cost me to have it moved to a different room, and it would be simpler to purchase the router. By the way there are no filters being used in my home..Does my desktop HAVE to be wired directly from my phone line via the phone company modem supplied and the Netgear router? Also additionally what would be the difference connecting my Roku xs straight to the router instead of directly into the back of my HD tv? One more question..( sorry! ) is there such a thing to purchase as a HDMI splitter to plug into the back of my tv, as i only have one HDMI plug-in in the back of my tv ??
Due to the distance from my spare room and living room i was also told to purchase a Netgear N900 wireless dual band USB adapter..will this help with the streaming speed as before when i viewed stuff on Hulu there was constant buffering. Do i REALLY need this and should i expect the same problem streaming movies from Netflix.??
Thanks once again in advance..

which country you are in?

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I'm located in the U.S.

Assuming that your house is wired in the same way as most other US houses, the phone sockets only have two wires connected in them.
They may have 4 but only two carry signals.
That said, there should be no reason why the phone company would be visiting your house to move or change anything.
In my neck of the woods, if you sign up for DSL, they send you the modem and the filters in a box and tell you to plug it in.
With the computer in the original location WITHOUT the router connected, find the IP address. You can do this by going to Start, Run, type CMD and press enter.
Now type ipconfig in the black window that appeared.
This will show you the IP address of your computer. If it starts with 192.168 or 10.xxx then you do not need a router as you already have one.

Let's start there

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I have this one which works very well

http://www.amazon.com/HDMI-Switch-Switcher-Remote-Support/dp/B00264NZWS/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1334004813&sr=8-3

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the Router AND the back of the TV.

The computer must be directly connected in the way that you describe.

Phone outlet > Phone company provided modem > Router > Computer

Unless you purchased a wireless router.

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