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Originally Posted by smokinfish  OK
To cut a long story short,
My new house cannot get broadband via the phone line (I live in the countryside,)
However, my landlord, who is my neighbour, can, and has a wireless router on my side of his house, which I can connect to in my house on my laptop, but only get 1 bar. If I put the laptop on the windowsill facing his house, I get 4 bars.
My question is this:
Someone said to me that I can use my previous ADSL Wireless ROuter to connect to his WIFI connection and then relay it around my house.
How do I do this?
my wifi expertise is low-intermediate: I've seen "wifi extenders" online, but can't help believing that they're not just glorified routers...
Please help! |
How far away is the neighbor/landlord? If they got broadband to his house, seems likely yours would be in the market too.
Do you have one pc or do you need to connect multiple pc's?
If just one, you want something like a USB wifi card with an external antenna/booster setup. Check ebay, there are many.
If multiple, then you need a wireless access point in client mode, or possibly WDS mode, but the WDS mode would require his router to be compatible with yours and your information loaded into his equipment.
As far as using your DSL modem , not likely. Did it have a wifi feature to it?