Re: Home WiFi repeater question

CWatters <colin.watters@turnersNOSPAMoak.plus.net> wrote:

> "Warmbells" <ged.bee@_please_remove_virgin.net> wrote in message
> news:44ba24fa$0$10947$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk...
> > Hello,
> >
> > My son lives in a small village in lincolnshire where they have communal
> > broadband WiFi. The question I have is is it possible to have a repeater
> > in the sons house so that the signal from the communal network (which
> > has a tree in the way) could be accessed from a slightly different
> > location and then sent to his home network on a different frequency to
> > the communal network, if it is possible how would we go about it.
>
> Yes. What wireless standard is the communal network?
>
> There are products like this for 802.11g for example..
> http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProdu...duct_Id=278082
> http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProdu...duct_Id=136486

Would something like this work for a service like BT Openzone? I have a
BT openzone account, but can only get the signal from my balcony in the
flat. For a few reasons, I'm not intending to get broadband at home for
a few weeks, maybe longer, so it would be really useful to extent the BT
Openzone signal into the flat. Are their cheaper options, e.g. involving
a cable/antenae etc.

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