dynaguy
@rr.com
| Wireless Router Rebroadcasting
My neighbor has a wireless router and has graciously allowed me to "mooch" off his signal so I have internet access. I have a Dell Laptop with an internal wireless G adapter. My wife has an old HP computer with a Netgear B PCMCIA card adapter.
We get the signal if we are sitting on our front porch. If we go in the house we lose the signal.
I am looking for a device that I can put on my front porch that will receive the signal from my neighbors wireless router and then re-transmit it to our computers in the house, about 20' away.
Is there such a device? If so, what is it called? Can someone give me a manufacturer and model number of such a device? One that is perhaps under $100?
Thank you in advance. |
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jimbopalmer
Tsar of all the Rushers
join:2008-06-02
Greenwood, MS
 ·Windjammer Cable
1 edit | a WDS extender/repeater/expander is what you are thinking of. Some WAPs and Bridges can also do WDS
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stevech0
join:2006-09-17
San Diego, CA
·RoadRunner Cable
 ·VoicePulse
| reply to dynaguy
First, just try a better antenna arrangement on your laptop. Easiest is to remove PCMCIA card. Buy or borrow a low cost USB WiFi adapter (the old HP does have USB? and Win XP?)
But a USB extension cable (cheap). Or two. There is a limit though.
Put the USB WiFi adapter up in the clear, near a good spot/window. |
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