EtherFridge

After gaining a computer, I have found that despite a network card that purportedly works to connect me to my downstairs internet network, the internet still doesn't work on it (eventually, I carted this computer downstairs and just installed the broadband software and plugged the ethernet cable into it, replacing our old laptop, which is why my computer is the one I'm using right now, but I digress).

I reckon what I really need is a sort of middle-man device that will receiver the signals and redistribute them stronger around my house so that I could receive the internet in my room, or, failing that if it's unfeasible and laudible (in all likelihoods, yes, as my computer knowledge is very basic), to connect to another phone line in the house so that everyone will receive internet at most points in the house.

As everyone knows, at most power-points there are two sockets, and when you install your fridge you render the other point useless due to the fridge usually obstructing the power points.

And with a lot of houses, the heart of the house is the kitchen, where the fridge is usually kept. Another point would be that a lot of kitchens have or are located near the telephone, and hence the telephone line.

My proposed idea would be a wireless router of sorts, located on the fridge, either on the front or side (no, not in next to the ham and cheese), powered by the spare point (that is if that one is wired up, which it usually is), that redistributes the signals let off by the orginal router, or, failing that, creating a different connection that will allow people in other parts of the house (this is assuming that most houses, like mine, are very centralised around the refrigerator. I sure know mine is, my 17 year old (elder) brother seems to never be far from it) to access the internet.

Yes, the title of the idea is probably inaccurate or downright incorrect, although I'm not sure on this one...