The first plugs into the wall and a provided
Ethernet cable goes between it and your router - so the two need to live near one another, but that's no problem as the router will need to be near a plug anyway.
I have
an Ethernet cable going from my modem right through the floor down to my PlayStation 4.
Not exact matches
No matter where a packet is sent or what type of equipment it happens to pass through, one basic cycle repeats over and over until it arrives at its destination: The message is stored in a computer's memory, analyzed to see where it should
go next, encoded somehow for transmission (whether it be as electrons down an
Ethernet cable or as photons radioed out from a Wi - Fi card), sent along to the next computer in the chain, decoded, and then stored in the memory of that computer.
You can now connect the consoles directly to each other with an
Ethernet cable (quickest) or with both of them having separate
cables going into a router (which may be easier but a little slower).
I've got a 50 - foot
ethernet cable that will stretch to just about wherever I need it to
go.
All versions of the Pi have an
Ethernet port onboard, so you can just plug in an
Ethernet cable and
go.
Finally, although these are meant to be wireless, in some houses that's just not
going to work, and you may have to revert to powerline AV (or a very long
cable) and a speaker with
ethernet connectivity.
Connect an
Ethernet cable that's also connected to your modem to that port, plug the USB end of the adapter into the Chromecast, attach the Chromecast to the HDMI port on your TV, and you're ready to
go.