MASSIVE wi-fi question

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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?

It does have wifi yes, and you can plug into it. Is there no way of using it to relay the signal? Perhaps with some special firmware? To turn it into a wireless extender?

His house is about 200 feet away, like i say, can get 3 or 4 bars on the windowsill facing his house, but generally only 1 bar if that elsewhere in my house.

I have three computers needing the net.

Your best option would be to use an outdoor wireless bridge. A wireless bridge will connect to his wireless router and also provide you a WIRED connection on your end.

You can then use this wired connection to connect to a hub (to provide multiple wired connections, or connect to another wireless router yourself for your own wireless. Note if you use your own wireless router, you will need to connect the bridge wired connection to your WAN port and manually configure the IP address of your router to be friendly with the IP scheme of your friends.

For example: Friends router IP address = 192.168.1.1. Wireless bridge set to 192.168.1.2. Your router IP address 192.168.5.1 (different) but the default gateway is 192.168.1.1.

For the wireless bridge I recommend the EnGenius EOC-2610. This is an outdoor unit that supports power over ethernet. It puts out 600mW and has a 10dbi antenna for $99.

RFMAN!

I'll assume you've searched the web with your modems model # and had no results. While some routers can be re-tasked with new firmware, it's a select few, and I've not seen it with modem/router combos (Might be there, just haven't seen it).
Now if your pc's all need wireless access, you'll be looking for a WDS type device, "maybe". Any router capable of WDS should work, but your landlords router must also be capable and you must load your mac address into his router in the appropriate fields.
Read up a bit in the forums, there are many ways to do this, and while non are overly complicated they do require some equipment/antennas, whatever.
Me, I'd get an access point (many are directional, look for engenius or highgainantenna) point it at his house, get a great signal, take the ethernet from the access point, plug it into the wan port of a wifi router (perhaps your asdl modem?..may not work) and then have wifi throughout your house, all stemming from his.

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