Posted: 7/13/2010 5:31:39 PM EDT
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My wife and I have decided to start the Dave Ramsey plan and as part of the deal, I am dropping my Cable internet. My neighbor just had cable installed at his house and asked me to help him set up his network for him. While we were working on it I made an off the cuff comment about sharing his wifi and he stated that he didn't care and it was the least he could do for me setting up his network.
My question is what needs to be done to pick up his signal and repeat it throughout my house? I can get one bar of signal sitting in my living room and can connect to his network but if I go to the other side of my house it is gone. He is running a dynex router (free from his parents) and I am running a linksys WRT110. Is is as simple as buying a wireless repeater and broadcasting the signal to my router? Thanks! Brian |
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I don't knwo all the ways of doing this. I do know that dd-wrt lets the router act as a wireless client, then share that gateway tot eh world to it's wired ports. Is the neighbor close enough your wireless clients can simply connect to his router/wireless access point?. |
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I'll bet the ranch this is a direct violation of the terms and conditions he consented to when he got the service from the ISP.
DD-WRT doesn't support Ralink. Buy another router: DD-WRT Database |
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Ignoring possible terms of service violation for now...
What's needed for this is: 1. Wifi router which supports Wireless Distribution System (WDS) 2. Wifi Access Point which supports WDS 3. Switch to share WAP with multiple PCs on your end (optional, only needed if you have more than one PC) Setup as following: [Neighbor's WiFi router]––––-WDS link––––-[Your WAP]––-[Switch]––-[Your PCs] |
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Beautiful!
The cantenna looks interesting but I was hoping for a more universal setup where I could run the wifis like I have my own network. Dave, Thanks for the idea. I will look into that sort of set up. I was also looking at the wireless network extender from Linksys. |